Ideas Have Legs
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One simple idea can be seen through many different minds in so many ways, but a successful composer runs with the same idea and somehow makes it his own, in a way that the reader is led to question how he could have agreed with the others. For this composer, has opened your eyes and fed you the truth ( or simply his truth?). He has dissected the idea to his liking with careful reference to the other perspectives. And all of a sudden the reader is left speechless, has he ever heard of this idea before?
"Ideas have legs" and often run themselves along to be questioned and sometimes changed. A reader plays an important part in the evolution of an idea. He/ she takes it in and forms, changes it to their liking, according to their beliefs and experiences.
In " The French Lieutenants Woman", John Fowles uses ideas through intertextuality mostly, to form his characters and shape the readers approach towards them and the ideas expressed in the novel. For example Mrs...