On Her Majesty's Secret Service Literary Elements

On Her Majesty's Secret Service Literary Elements

Genre

Fiction

Setting and Context

South of France, early 1960s

Narrator and Point of View

Third person narrator telling the story from James Bond's point of view

Tone and Mood

Dangerous, adventurous, threatening

Protagonist and Antagonist

Bond is the protagonist, SPECTRE and Blofeld the antagonists

Major Conflict

Conflict between Bond and Blofeld, as Bond tries to find out if the international terrorist organization is still operating, and subsequently trying to destroy them

Climax

Discovery that the currency of the UK is about to go through the floor and that Blofeld is behind both this and the plan to use biochemical weapons against England

Foreshadowing

The two henchmen rolling up their pants legato go into the ocean foreshadows the fact that the boat coming into the shore is not an escape boat but part of a pre-planned kidnapping attempt

Understatement

Bond worries he has damaged his car by adding a supercharger to it but this is an understatement because he has completely ruined it and made it impossible for the crankshaft to operate correctly

Allusions

Bond alludes to the Agatha Christie character Miss Marple when he describes the quintessential "little old English lady" at the table with him in Casino Royale

Imagery

The sun was getting lower. Already one could smell the September chill that all that day had lain hidden beneath the heat

The author uses imagery suggesting both smell and visual descriptions to create images of the beach and the changing of the seasons

Paradox

Tracy tells Bond he is a stud sexually and invites him to come to her in the morning as well, but when he does she tells him to get out because sex with him was the worst she had ever had

Parallelism

Tracy makes a parallel between herself and a prostitute by telling Bond that'he paid forty million francs to make love to her

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Bond notices that "the table is becoming wary" at the casino but the table actually means "the players at the table

Personification

Tents "marched prettily down to the tide line" which is giving the tents the ability to move of their own volition

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