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Write a 7 page essay on Containing your critical analysis on a comparison between two or more works discussed in class and using outside sources to supp.

This fascination is attributed to the consideration that is given to the elements that make up a literary work. In connection with the growing interest on world literature a critical analysis on the works of Guy de Maupassant (The Horrible) and William Shakespeare (“Sonnet 29”) is endeavored. To enable the comparison, the significance of characters and themes to the creation of these literary works will be explored. The characters of a literary work usually leave a mark on the readers. They may either love or hate the character depending on how it affects them. Authors go through the process of characterization in order to create the ideal characters with personalities that are fit to the story, which is about to be told. Through characterization, readers are enabled to put oneself in the place of the character eventually feeling that sense of connection between the experiences of the character in the story and to those experienced in reality. For instance, in The Horrible, De Maupassant uses the character of General G--to illumine the real meaning of the world horrible based on a certain happening. As the plot of the story begins with a conversation among several men, the character of General G--serves as the recounter of a past event that construes an extremely horrible happening. General G--, who is obviously a former military man, is used to seeing deaths, yet he does not consider the drowning of two men and three women in front of the eyes of the guests as horrible. The character of General G--, allowed de Maupassant to relate the story to reality. By reading his story, readers understand what the character General G--believes is a horrible event, and from there the perception of a reader could be affected. Perhaps, the characters of a literary work are fundamental to make it appealing in the eyes of its target audience. The mystery that is attached to a character adds to the allure of a literary work. The works of William Shakespeare, for example, are among the seldom and few works of world literature that continue to entice a vast number of readers. Its magnetism has remained strong despite being written many years ago. In “Sonnet 29,” Shakespeare uses the character of a fair youth, to create a poem that narrates an encounter with depression. Although there is no specific indication of the subject as either a man or a woman, it is believed that the work describes the depression of a man, which is brought by social isolation because of his outcast state. Shakespeare’s characterization of the fair youth is the enigma that makes his work compelling and, at the same time, unresolved (Sarker 84). It is the hidden character of this character that draws the attention of readers, especially those whose struggles are similar to that of the fair youth. Authors of fictional and non-fiction literature often make use of various characters to achieve the aim of the story. There are major or central characters who plays an extremely crucial in the progress and ending of the conflict. These are the lead characters whose lives are the center of every sequence of events in a story. Next to the major characters are the minor characters, who serve as their counterpart in every plot that is added to the story.