Byatt’s character Tom Wellwood in her novel The Children’s Book resents fairytales, especially Peter Pan. Tom’s resentment is the result of a troubled inner self and belonging to a mother who uses her own children to create characters—characters...

No Spark: An Analysis of Val and Euan’s Relationship in Possession The fictional poet of A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Randolph Henry Ash. muses in his short poem. “And is love then more//Than the kick galvanic” (297). Byatt includes this poem at the...

The flawless facade of the Alabaster manor masks the deep, dark, and diabolical secrets that manifest behind its closed doors. Dances, dialogues, and dinners all take place in this house—a house which, as Matilda “Matty” Crompton declares, “......