The Passion of New Eve Literary Elements

The Passion of New Eve Literary Elements

Genre

Novel, magic realism, post-feminism

Setting and Context

1977, dystopian United States where civil war has broken out between different political, racial and gender groups.

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narration. Evelyn is a narrator from the beginning, he is a young British professor who moves to New York City for new job to the end when he turned to a new body of Eve.

Tone and Mood

The story is conveyed as a magic story with unusual ending because of its supernatural events. A lot of events and characters are very interesting and unusual for reader and it creates an enigmatic mood.

Protagonist and Antagonist

The major protagonist is Evelyn, and the major antagonist is Zero.

Major Conflict

Most of the conflict in the story can be read as a struggle between a man and a woman, this story is about their identity.

Climax

The climax begins in the moment when Zero captivates Evelyn and he wants him to rape Tristessa.

Foreshadowing

The old lady on the beach foreshadows the future of women who used to be well-to-do and to have a lot of attendants but now when she is old she is alone.

Understatement

The understatement in the novel is the wives of Zero. His wives are all passive. And it shows us the role of women in that period, they can’t realize themselves, they must obey

Allusions

The story alludes to Bible.

Imagery

Descriptions of transformation of a man into a woman is vividly depicted, as well as nature descriptions which are used as the background

Paradox

The transformation of the Evelyn and changes of Leilah.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Metonymy: Mother – as Mother of reviving and creator of a new world, Eve – is a first who was changed; in the Bible Eva is the first person who was created by God with Adam, and in the book Eve is the first woman who can change herself

Personification

N/A

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