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    How far is Macbeth a gothic protagonist? The gothic protagonist who is seen as the main character tries to overcome human limitations by making acting as god. Within the novel elements of Gothic is seen which is seen highly in the characters as well as other aspects. Shakespeare’s Macbeth consists of the central protagonist who is Macbeth himself. Thus‚ Macbeth is seemed as a gothic protagonist because he urges for a gothic goal which is often for more power. A gothic protagonist is known to have

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    Arthur “Boo” Radley seems to be a minor character‚ but when his role in the novel is closely looked at‚ we notice that he plays a vital part of the story. Much of the plot-line‚ thematic implications‚ and morally-based symbols are based on him. Note that he is used to develop two of the the main themes‚ and is crucial in the development of the main character‚ not to mention that he is a prominent figure at the beginning and at the end of the novel. The first theme that Arthur is involved with about

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    HOPE FOR THE FLOWERS By Trina Paulus Main Characters: Stripe and yellow caterpillar and other caterpillars Setting : Tree‚ caterpillar pillar and the world The story started when Stripe‚ the main character‚ hatches from an egg. He begins his life by eating the leaf he was born on. He realizes that there must be "more" to life than just eating leaves. He senses there must be a way to get up into the sky. He searches for a way and finds himself at the base of a pillar made up of caterpillars

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    “How has Amy Heckerling used film techniques to portray the transformation of ‘Cher’ in her film‚ ‘Clueless’?” In the hit film of 1995 -Clueless‚ director Amy Heckerling effectively uses film techniques to further portray the deep meaning of the story. The film tells the story of a selfish teenage girl who transforms into a responsible woman. In the beginning of the story‚ the main protagonist‚ Cher‚ is depicted as a narrow-minded‚ extravagant teenager. Heckerling uses vivid colour and extremity

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    Henrik Ibsen’s works Dollhouse and An Enemy of the People can be shown to have both been written by Ibsen not only through characteristic technique such as blocking and character exposition‚ but also the similarity in the decay of the social persona of characters from the norm and the main character’s heightening stalwart. The later of that statement proves the works to be Ibsen’s writing more effectively because such a commonality is a more direct link between works than such subtlies as character

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    The Good‚ The Bad‚ and The Ugly of Big Liam O’Grady By: Charles Baker Maurice Walsh’s short story The Quiet Man introduces a few interesting characters‚ but one I found very intriguing wbas a man named Big Liam O’Grady. Big Liam was one of the main characters who played a huge role in the story. Big Liam may have played the "Bad guy" role in this story‚ but even the worst villains can have a good trait or two. From reading the short story‚ you notice that Big Liam really sticks with

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    Character Analysis of Santiago Santiago‚ a character in Ernest Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea‚ is a very interesting character who is especially worthy of an in-depth character analysis. By making Santiago really the only important and developed character‚ Hemingway focuses the mind of the reader on this one character‚ which allows the reader to fully concentrate on the actions and characteristics of Santiago. Hemingway also writes in such a way that‚ instead of offering up an analysis‚ there

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    Stolpestad is a short story written by William Lychack in 2008. The short story takes place in a little town named Stolpestad. In this story we meet a man who works as a police officer1‚ one day he is called to a house where he is told that they have some problems with a dog. He goes there‚ and finds that the dog is sick‚ the mother asks him to shoot the dog‚ which he does after asking if they shouldn’t take it to the vet. While being at a bar after work his wife calls him telling him that there

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    Michael Blackwell Professor Helen Driver English 1302 January 28‚ 2013 The Protagonist Have you ever picked up a book and within minutes you couldn’t put it down? Have you felt a deep connection with a character‚ yet at the same time; not understood why the characters do the things they do? The way we connect with our favorite characters is no accident. The author’s resolve when writing is for the reader to connect with the protagonist of their stories. I know that The author of “Circumcision”

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    Ralph Ellison’s "Battle Royal" is a story about blindness and realization. It’s about conformity and uprising. "Battle Royal" is about wanting to please the very people who look at you as an inferior race. In this story‚ the narrator is moved from idealism to realism. He is awakened to a new world in which he finally sees the prejudice that exists and that is directed toward him. The story begins with the narrator reminiscing about the day his grandfather died. His grandfather delivered a speech

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