Lucy Temple Literary Elements

Lucy Temple Literary Elements

Genre

Romance, Historical Fiction.

Setting and Context

18th Century, America

Narrator and Point of View

Narrator- Third person
Point of view- Omniscient

Tone and Mood

Melancholic, Tragic, Depressing, Despairing.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Lucy Temple is the protagonist of the novel. John Montraville is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

Lucy considers herself to be lucky to found such a gentleman as Edmund Franklin, but before their nuptial, Edmund goes to meet his dying father but never returns.

Climax

Edmund finds out that his father, John Montraville, is also the father of Lucy, and he's the step brother of Lucy.

Foreshadowing

When Lucy asks Edmund to break their relationship and bids him goodbye, he informs her not to look for him in the future because he won't be able to live without her. This scene foreshadows Edmund's inevitable death at the end of the story.

Understatement

Edmund believes that his charismatic personality can win any beautiful maiden's heart; thus, he tells his friend Contense that he will make Lucy fall for him, but instead he fell in love with her in the first place.

Allusions

Edmund alludes the abstruseness of Lucy as Plato.

Imagery

N/A

Paradox

Mr. Mathews tells Lucy to stop meeting with Edmund because he hears some rumors about him being a Casanova, but Edmund's sincere and responsible behavior wins Mr. Mathews' heart.

Parallelism

Lucy Temple's life is surprisingly parallel to her mother. Lucy is as beautiful and innocent as her mother, and they both experiences the tragic end of their love stories.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The term Prince of Peace refers to Jesus.

Personification

N/A

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