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Favorite objects/entities that carry the bulk of the thematic weight in a novel?
Just wondering if anyone here has any favorites in this category; physical objects or entities that bear most of the thematic load of a novel. Things like the rocket in Gravity's Rainbow, the monster in Frankenstein, the white whale in Moby Dick. For me personally I think a top contender would be Aristotle's Humors in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. The adults from my childhood who had the greatest positive impact on me were all both very funny people and highly skeptical and those values rubbed off on me and have been guiding forces in my life. As such, an object that represents things like humor as both a liberating and destabilizing force and knowledge as a challenge to institutional power really resonated with me. Additionally the idea of >!what is essentially an ancient joke book being a murder weapon!< is genuinely hilarious IMO.
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Just wondering if anyone here has any favorites in this category; physical objects or entities that bear most of the thematic load of a novel. Things like the rocket in Gravity's Rainbow, the monster in Frankenstein, the white whale in Moby Dick. For me personally I think a top contender would be Aristotle's Humors in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. The adults from my childhood who had the greatest positive impact on me were all both very funny people and highly skeptical and those values rubbed off on me and have been guiding forces in my life. As such, an object that represents things like humor as both a liberating and destabilizing force and knowledge as a challenge to institutional power really resonated with me. Additionally the idea of >!what is essentially an ancient joke book being a murder weapon!< is genuinely hilarious IMO.
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