Tale Of Two Cities Referential Analysis

One of the important features of a composite novel is its setting or its referential field which is the main referential elements in creating and connecting the meaning in reader’s mind (Dunn 30-31). The Island is the main fictional place in Lost where everything happens or eventually is going to happen. It is where the survivors of the plane crash of Oceanic Flight 815 started to become a community; it brought them there, accidentally (or purposefully). However, it is also a middle place (between Australia and America), where everyone is stuck. From the beginning the island plays an active role in the movie; it heals people (beginning with John Lock and Rose), it makes them do things and go to places. The island is the place where every incident

While the latter used to live in houses and had water and electricity, or as Ben called it in “A Tale of Two Cities” “Civilized”, since the former group has crashed on the island, they were forced to find a suitable habitat for themselves (S3E1). After living a while on the beach, because of the shortage of water, they searched for a new shelter and discovered a cave. Commuting between the shores and the cave, they found themselves preys of other random animals or The Others. The bipolarity of the landscape depicts differences between the two groups lives and challenges in front of the

Beside the concept of psychic region, the Island also represents a land of the dead that brought them all together in a common place where “they are supposed to be”. After the crash several incidents happened that suggest everything is happening in an unreal world. People started to get healed, to see dead people, to come back from dead and even travel through time. As Charlotte says: “This Place Is Death”, hence the name of the episode, all the evidences indicate that all the protagonists on the island are already dead and their attempt to escape from the island is just an unsuccessful struggle with death. Additionally, in “Ab Aeterno”, Richard tells Jack that they are all dead and this place is not an island, it is hell. He actually refers to his conversation with the Man in Black which is shown in his flashbacks (S6E9) (Dialogues in appendix). In this sense the island symbolizes the place after death. Whether hell or purgatory, this intermediate place connects the flashbacks and the flash-forward stories of