Literary Language: Genres, Narrative, and Description Analysis
Literary Language: Genres, Narrative, and Description
Literary Communication
The literary text has several distinguishing elements:
- Issuer: The issuer of the literary work is called author. This role requires specific skills in linguistic expression.
- Receiver: The receiver is the reader, any potential reader, present or future, a universal receiver. To achieve genuine communication, the reader must interpret the text and attribute meaning. The absence of a single, unequivocal meaning in literary texts
Themes in The House of Bernarda Alba: Freedom, Love, and Hypocrisy
Thematic Groups in The House of Bernarda Alba
The central theme of the play is the clash between a traditional, authoritarian figure, Bernarda, and the desire for freedom, represented by her mother (Maria Josefa) and her daughter Adela. It’s a conflict between two attitudes about life and two ideologies. First, we have Bernarda’s attitude, which stands for a life dominated by appearances and a morality based on traditional authoritarianism. On the other hand, we have a liberal attitude. In the play,
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