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In "The Judge's Wife" the author, Isabel Allende, uses a variety of techniques to make full use of the limited space within her short story. By using strong imagery, providing a background, providing believable human actions, and examining justice, M. Allende creates a piece readers can understand to the point of empathy. Because her short story examines human behavior in respect to passions, justice, and emotion (love) in a plausible manner one can find close similarities between her work and that of Mary The author makes use of imagery to embellish not only upon her environment, but also her characters. M. Allende presents the ideas of corruption, innocence, and strictness simply through well-selected adjectives that lend eloquently to the descriptions of her characters. The strait laced judge being "...dressed formally in black ... and his boots always shone with bees wax " (Allende, 422). One can infer by details such as those that that particular individual appreciates formality, and considering his desert location, a strict adherence to it. The author also uses images of deformity demonstrate the corruption of her main character, Nicholas Vidal; by providing him
Beyond merely presenting imagery to enhance the characters, the Allende also supplies background information in order to enhance the readers understanding of how the main character arrived at his current state. Both authors using this particular method of rejection to temper the souls of their monsters to the hardness of iron (Allende, 423). Indeed the role of the judge has many overlapping qualities with Victor Frankenstein. Mary Shelly uses lovely poetic imagery in much the same way to define, and give three-dimensional presence to her characters. Allende takes the judge's passion a step further into the realm of juxtapose, by having that character create a great injustice in order to attempt to find the justice he seeks. The monster, from Frankenstein, is rejected by the family he assists solely due to his grotesque appearance. Both are created and ultimately rejected by their creators who attempt to destroy them. Such use of imagery for the purpose of character definition can most clearly be seen in her description of her monster: "His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. In Allende's 1944 piece she allows the feminine character, although weak and victimized, knowledge and use of her sexual power. Allende and Shelly both make indications in their texts that this type of love contains both a necessary and satisfying function. In much the same way Nicholas is assumed early on in his life by "decent folk" to become a criminal due to the telling marks on his face. In both cases the authors make use of the character's deep passion for justice: literally in the form of law and figuratively in the form of revenge. Beautiful, Great GOD! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowering; his teeth pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dunwhite sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and strait black lips. Shelly and Allende rely upon the readers understanding of passion to enhance the realistic level of their characters.
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