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 with
             four (4) nipples and a scared face the reader can have a visual representation of the
             character's tragic formation. In much the same manner, one can see such development
             within Frankenstein's creation. The monster's grotesque outward appearance reflects
             his corrupted creation. Using such imagery the author allows the readers to form a solid
             conception of the plight of their characters.
             Mary Shelly uses lovely poetic imagery in much the same way to define, and give
             three-dimensional presence to her characters. 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 ...