Commentary: "The Rock" by E. M. Forster

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Résumé

The Rock is a short-story which was written by Edward Morgan Forster and published in The Life to Come and Other Stories in 1972, after his death. He is a famous English writer who wrote a lot of short-stories. Forster was a humanist who travelled a lot, and his works mostly evoke communication between people, especially people coming from different social classes. His motto was: "tolerance, good tempere and sympathy". Here, The Rock is a first-person narrative which contains passages of dialogue between the narrator and a woman who remain anonymous; but also passages of description where the narrator speaks about a promontory in the sea with a rock and tells what once (...)

Outline:

Introduction

I) The characteristics of the narration

A. The composition of the text
B. The reader involved in the story
C. A confused narrative

II) The reflexion about life's value

A. Life's value: the main problem of the text
B. Money and material things in one's life, in opposition to natural and spiritual things
C. Problems of communication and religion

Conclusion

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