Thesis ideas Galore
I’m going to discuss all of the ideas that are ruminating in my head so that I can take a look at them all in a day to really get a feel for what it is that I want to discuss. I have so many ideas going on at once that I can’t seem to narrow in on just one that I really want to write about. I have a general feel for what I want and when I look at journal articles, they seem to articulate my idea much better than I can, so here we go…
The effects that history has on the novel and how the novel continues to change in form and yet remain the same in definition. I will discuss the multiple forms a novel can take on and still be considered part of its genre, for example the change in perspectives in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and how this novel has some truly original, for the age, dialogue settings that allow the reader an experience similar to that of a movie. For example, when Rodolphe tells Emma of his love for her while the talk of fertilizer and manure is heard in the background. This scene really does provide the reader with an idea of what this relationship is going to be like. (I don’t really want to get into the idea of technology that much, but when talking about history technology is bound to come up). Also, this scene is a good example of something that can be described in a novel, while other sources of literature are not as flexible.
I also cannot get the idea of didacticism out of my head when it comes to novels. I see a connection between novels and television, because when it comes to looking at the characters and the situations that they are put in, I think that the audience/reader can get a lesson/moral out of the situation and what the individuals did to solve/resolve the circumstance. I realize that novels are definitely not the only source of literature that can provide a reader with a moral, however the novel can accomplish didacticism in a way that allows the reader to get to know the character on a deeper level, deeper than a poem could anyway. I find that characters in novels are easy to empathize with, sometimes easier than a real life friend even, because at times the reader completely knows the character because the narrator is omniscient and therefore, the reader can often times see the thoughts of the character. This accessibility of the characters in novels is what makes novels so unique, and also is why the novel will never be dead as Vidal says. There are far too many forms that a novel can take on for it to ever die and I believe Vidal agrees that the infinity of forms for a novel are what makes the novel invincible to extinction and stronger than ever in history and in the future.
I’m going to continue to read all of the journal articles that I have collected to see if I can postulate a stronger thesis than I currently have, but I think that tomorrow this blog post will turn out to be quite useful, because I have plenty of ideas, just not plenty of thesis.
