Character and events are exaggerated beyond reality to become symbols, ideas and passions. ... Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while subjecting both his good and evil characters to the powers of the devil. ...
Character and events are exaggerated beyond reality to become symbols, ideas and passions. ... Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while subjecting both his good and evil characters to the powers of the devil. ...
For the romantics Prometheus became a symbol of man's resistance and rebellion against political despotism. ... "Neither evil nor inhuman, [the creature] comes to seem little more than morally uniformed, poorly `put together` by a human creator who has ill served both his creation and his fellow humans [ ] (Telotte, 1995, p. 76). ...
