THEMES OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP IN MODERN ENGLISH STORIES
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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i10.2019.6470Keywords:
Love, Friendship, Modern English Literature, Relationships, Emotional Themes, Contemporary Stories, Character Development, Narrative TechniquesAbstract [English]
Creating a modern English narrative, love and friendship are two of the strongest and universal emotions of human beings, which still influence the plot structure of the works. This term paper discusses the way modern authors develop these themes in their texts using characterization, dramatic confrontation, setting, and storytelling. This paper through examining some of the contemporary short stories and novels in the English language brings out the changing aspect of the relationship, depth of the human feeling as well as the impact that the modern social transformation has on the human relationship. The results indicate that the current narratives reflect the love and friendship as not only the sources of happiness and connection but also as the domains of conflict, compromise, transformations as well as maturation. Such motifs are always present in the human telling of stories, as it is a kind of the modern life reality.
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