Figurative Approach to the Road Represented in Henry James’s The American and The Portrait of a Lady
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Henry James used the motif of the road as an apt expression on characters’ development, plots’ expansion, and imagery in his two novels. His novels displayed the road of the spirit at its most interior. He explored two individuals in his two works, seldom deviating from the straight road which led his characters to the self-knowledge necessary to attaining completeness. In The American, Newman has gained an expanded self-awareness in his exposure to the European culture, and this expansion opened his consciousness to the spiritual road which lie before him. In The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer has achieved the totality of her own existence because of the road which she chose. Through situation of suffocation she chose, she comes to have the internal maturation which is able to assume the road of her life under her own direction.
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Henry James used the motif of the road as an apt expression on characters’ development, plots’ expansion, and imagery in his two novels. His novels displayed the road of the spirit at its most interior. He explored two individuals in his two works, seldom deviating from the straight road which led his characters to the self-knowledge necessary to attaining completeness. In The American, Newman has gained an expanded self-awareness in his exposure to the European culture, and this expansion opened his consciousness to the spiritual road which lie before him. In The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer has achieved the totality of her own existence because of the road which she chose. Through situation of suffocation she chose, she comes to have the internal maturation which is able to assume the road of her life under her own direction.
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