proportion, and I had selected his features as
beautiful. 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, 56)
In viewing the above passage, much of the same type of character definition can be
seen; very similar to the manner in which Allende casts her deformed mold of her
Beyond merely presenting imagery to enhance the character
...