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Definition of Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics, emotions, and behaviors to animals or other non-human things (including objects, plants, and supernatural beings). Some famous examples of anthropomorphism include Winnie the Pooh, the Little Engine... read full definition
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics, emotions, and behaviors to animals or other non-human things (including objects, plants, and supernatural beings). Some famous examples of anthropomorphism include Winnie... read full definition
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics, emotions, and behaviors to animals or other non-human things (including objects, plants, and supernatural beings). Some famous... read full definition
Chapter 7. A Naughty Apartment
Explanation and Analysis—Behemoth:
Ivan Nikolayevich is technically the first to catch sight of the black tomcat—“huge as a hog, black as pitch or a crow”—but by no means the last. When Styopa Likhodeyev awakes from his hangover in Chapter 7, he gets introduced in short order to the novel’s most infamous anthropomorphic character. Bulgakov turns his novel to the giant cat in the room:
A third visitor sprawled insolently on the padded ottoman that had once belonged to the jeweler’s lady— namely, a black tom of terrifying proportions, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork in the other with which he had already managed to impale a pickled mushroom.
