No Greater Love Analysis

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The works that have been chosen for this project are Maxine Shore’s the Captive Princess and Danielle Steel’s, No Greater Love. The Captive Princess was written in 1952 and is a fictionalized account of Princess Gwladys Ruffyd, Daughter of King Caradoc during the first century, over the course of nearly two decades starting when she was only 7 years old. Danielle Steel’s No Greater Love depicts the story of a family torn apart by the tragic sinking of the Titanic, centralizing on the eldest daughter, Edwina Winfield. The novel begins in 1912 and follows the ups and downs of Ms. Winfield’s trials of raising her younger siblings over the next 11 years.
A Captive Princess has themes that are commonly found in many books written in that time, …show more content…

Edwina Winfield and her family come from a very affluent family, and after the death of her parents and fiancé it fell upon Edwina to continue the family traditions, standing, businesses, while still raising her younger siblings. She is forced to move within the constructs that society at that time demanded of someone of their family’s wealth and prestige. No Greater Love depicts how the family reacts to their tragedy, how their upper elite friends react to their tragedy and the relationship between the two. The second prominent convention in use in No Greater Love is the aspect of what Scott Forschler, author of Revenge, poetic justice, resentment, and the Golden Rule, defined as Poetic Justice. Poetic Justice, per Forshler, is when, “injury coming to a wrongdoer that is both roughly equivalent to and caused by his wrongdoing, but in a way, that is neither anticipated by him nor primarily inflicted on him by other persons as part of an intention to punish his wrongdoing” (Forschler 4). We see this convention being played out in the form Malcolm Stone. Stone is a smooth-talking actor that see his chance to elevate his notoriety in Hollywood by seducing Alexis Winfield. His impure and selfish reasons for running off with the young girl back fires when instead of having a rise in stardom he becomes blacklisted and loses the girl. It is a satisfying end to the character for the

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