The Stylistic Analysis of “the Supreme Illusion” by Arnold Bennette

The Stylistic Analysis of The Supreme Illusion by Arnold Bennette Id like to hypothesise upon Arnold Bennette and iodine of his works. Arnorld Bennette is a British novelist, shoo-inwright, critic, essayist and journalist. His first published novel was The Man From The North. This was followed by Anna of The quin Towns, The Old Wives Tale, Clayhanger, The Card and Hilda Lessways. Bennette is credited with more than 80 books and during the 1920s was considered among the leaders of English literature.And now Id like to analyse a tragic tale from The Matodor of the Five Towns which is called The Supreme Illusion. As for the title, its a topical one. This text is about one of mans disillusions and this suitable title helps us to understand the contents of the story, which deals with such themes as art, theatre and famous people and their satisfied ambitions. According to its form, its a short story in 2 parts. A teller comes to Paris for the production of Notre-Dame de la Lune hard ly at the hotel an ugly muliebrity upsets his arrival.He meets his friend pip-squeak Boissy and they talk about Minors c areeras a playwright. Boissy tells about his leading actress Blanche and the narrator believes that shes a young and pretty woman but in fact Blanche is just that woman whom he met having arrived at the hotel. In the plot body structure theres exposition where we make the acquaintance of the characters and Minor tells about his life and Blanche climax, where the narrator expects Blanche to be magnificent, and denouement his disappointment.It seems to me that the message of the story can be formulated as a proverb If you extremity no disappointment, dont indulge in illusions The reason uses some stylistic means to piddle the atmosphere and to convey it to the reader flashback- to explain the reader the reason of the narrators state of arouse annoyance here we can see a broad number of epithets describing French hotels (reasonable little hotel, haughtily-man aged hotels, a magnificent porter) detachments (humiliated and helpless, her eyes were hard-hard) and parantheses (which we all know, and whose throw we all give in confidence to all our friends).The narrators annoyance is showed even with the help of elliptical sentences (But no ) and it also should be noted that they are with exclamatory marks. Later the narrator calms down and to prove it the author uses antithesis (a disagreeable excitement changes into an agreeable one). The author uses direct and indirect methods of characterization to describe his characters, thats why we can judge about his emplacement to them through his descriptions.To show how unpleasant and stout the woman is numerous epithets are found (barbaric and repulsive creature, umbrage hag, odious creature), climax (a savagely-dressed, ugly and ageing woman) simile (her automobile as large as a railway carriage) inversion (pretty she could never have been) and of course irony (if she had been young and pretty , she would have had the right to be rude and domineering). But for Boissy Minor shes different he admires her, he always desires to satisfy her ambitions.Shes the sense of his life (its proved by anadiplosis its the woman, its the woman who.. ) but hes a rather realistic person (Dont expect too much) despite hes a prominent and soaked man (metonymy all the walls of Paris were shouting his name climax Octave Boissy was a very wealthy man, he even looked a very wealthy man metaphor one of the darlings of success epithet of an absurdly luxurious civilazation).Hes unpretending and always says simply (the fact is Im neurasthenic) although his disease hurts him (epithet a morbid horror of walking) and physical exertion of exclamatory sentences (I couldnt.. I couldnt.. ) but he tries to show it (antithesis at once comic and tragic smile) as he laughs a lot. By his own words he explains his choice. Theres a great number of anadiploses (its not a question.. , that was my sole reason.. , its the woman, his life consisted in one thing only) I like Arnold Bennettes style of writing.It goes without saying that his language is stylistically coloured, he dead mixes formal, informal and harsh words (offensive hag, to deign, monstrosities, barbaric creature). Sometimes they are useful to express the narrators disgust , sometimes delight but always to intensify desired effect. The topis of this story is vital and essential and upon the theme of illusion and its aftermath weve speculated last time talking about the John Boyton Priestleys play entitled The Dangerous Corner.