Summary:
Essay describes how the narrative in "The Butterfly Collector" by Frederick Clegg reveals that in the end he, himself, is captive to his limitations.
John Fowles' "The Collector," is a story of Frederick Clegg, an introvert that gets easily upset and whose favorite pastime is gathering butterflies. Even though this pastime of his is his obsession, Frederick Clegg decides to collect something more attractive. This something happens to be an art student named Miranda Gray. Ferdinand Clegg knows that he is communally incompetent to woo her in the customary way that other men woo women, and so therefore abducts her and keeps her captive in the cellar of his detached country cottage that he has purchased just to fulfill his degrading intention. In spite of differences between Frederick Clegg and Miranda Gray, such as the concept of love, class, life, art and beauty, he tries as hard as he can to please her by giving her gifts and new clothes,.....
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