The writer compares and contrasts three very different works, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O' Brien. The writer argues that although they seem wildly divergent at first they do have themes in common. The paper is twenty pages long and there are three sources listed in the bibliography.
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to be about as diverse as any three stories can be; however, while there is the admitted variance between and among these tales, there is also a common denominator that
binds three seemingly unrelated themes. The struggle for acceptance in Stokers Dracula, the obsessive nature of self-love in Wildes Dorian Gray and the ability to laugh at society in
OBriens Birds brings to light how three distinctive stories are able to come together under the guise of human conflict and successfully share the same thematic point. At the
same time, however, all three stories possess their own unique contribution to the literary world, in that each one stands apart from the others in specific ways. II. COMPARE
OBriens story is often seen as quirky and humorous; Stokers reflects what some believe to be a lost soul searching for his inner
self; while Wildes is thought to be a private glance into a very public world of self-centeredness. There is however, another side of each of these works: dealing with
conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Stoker, Wilde and OBrien reveal this conflict is an integral component to the writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques
as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. It can readily be argued that literature is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing myriad
many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one spectrum to the other. Often represented in all of these stories are rage, love, happiness, buffoonery, sorrow, lightheartedness and
despair, the words providing an avenue for the author to release inner struggles and philosophies that can be set free through no other means than prose. Indeed, any one