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The Elusive Form: The Use of Female Characters in "Naked Nude"
Thesis: In his picturesque short story, "The Naked Nude", Bernard Malamud uses
the female characters to develop, enact, and resolve Fidelman's epiphany and to
bring about the protagonist's final, artistic self-understanding.
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.... which may function entirely independent from the others. In "The
Naked Nude," for instance, Fidelman comes to a new, artistic maturity through
his attempt to copy the famous painting "Venus of Urbino" by Titian Tiziano.
Malamud's recurring theme of self-knowledge through suffering permeates this
short work. Scarpio and Angelo, as primary antagonists, provide the bulk of
this suffering for Fidelman. It is his own mental captivity concerning the
female nude, however, that gives cause for Fidelman's eventual epiphany asan
artist and as an individual. His relationship to the women in the work ....
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