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    3 Types of Modern Drama Romantic-  are love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres and on television that focus on passion‚ emotion‚ and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus. Occasionally‚ lovers face obstacles such as finances‚ physical illness‚ various forms of discrimination‚ psychological restraints or family that

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    simplistic language used to narrate the piece‚ Lawrence introduces a number of genuine issues that affect families of low income. These issues are highlighted in the stark contrast between the antagonist and protagonist consistent throughout the story. Paul’s mother is portrayed as a peculiar antagonist‚ however‚ as she is actually a victim herself‚ incapable of loving her son due to her dire financial situation and her sour relationship with her husband. Despite the cold‚ unloving environment

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    girl’s homemade dress in study hall‚ villains make stories compelling. We love and need the bad guys‚ perhaps just for their representation of the secret bad guys in ourselves. But there are rules. One of two things must eventually happen to the antagonist for the reader to feel closure: he has to learn‚ to realize the error of his ways and repent‚ or he has to pay‚ to get what he has got coming to him. But what if neither of these happen? The novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio follows a young boy‚ August

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    "Cathedral‚" this story has an antagonist. Who? How is she antagonistic? This character has many admirable traits--a rounded character--but seems to use them only for selfish purposes. 3. Is there a catalyst in this story? If so‚ who? When‚ and in what way? Remember that a catalyst may do something to cause a change in the protagonist‚ usually a positive change. You can name this character just by a process of elimination (she is not the protagonist nor the antagonist)‚ but you may have to reread the

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    Barker’s The Thief of Always involves Harvey Swick‚ the protagonist‚ finding out that the Holiday House isn’t as real and happy as it seems. Barker has many characters and uses questions that help the main character‚ Harvey Swick‚ see through the antagonist‚ Hood‚ and his illusions and magic. Barker uses his caretaker Mrs.Griffin; Harvey’s own inquisitive nature; Harvey’s strange and mysterious friend‚ Lulu to help Harvey see through Hood’s magic and illusions showing that minor characters are significant

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    control over women‚ as men felt they were far superior to women‚ because of this Stanley has more of a hubris persona as his actions and ambitions led to the protagonist of the play having a harmartia. A tragic villain is a character‚ normally an antagonist that does not truly intend to be a villain. So in Stanley’s case‚ Stanley can be alleged as an tragic villain as he is violent towards to Stella‚ for paradigm hitting her and using animalistic behaviour towards other women‚ which was an example

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    Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves features an antagonist who is a monarch‚ the stepmother of the protagonist‚ Snow White‚ and a witch. She is beautiful‚ vain‚ ruthless‚ and deceiving. She tries to kill Snow White twice which results in her death by falling off a cliff. In Grimm’s Little Snow White the antagonist is a monarch and the stepmother of the protagonist‚ Snow White. She is beautiful‚ but also vain‚ proud‚ arrogant‚ and

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    Akash Pathak Goodine English 112 March 15‚ 2012 More Than the Eyes Can See “Cathedral” begins with the narrator introducing his wife’s friend‚ Robert‚ who is coming to the narrators’ house to spend the night. He had recently lost his wife and the narrators’ wife had invited him to visit her after years of separation. She had met Robert when she landed a job to read to a blind man and they kept in touch through tapes‚ even after she left the job. The narrator was not looking forward to meeting

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    William Faulkner In most stories one reads there is going to be a protagonist and an antagonist. The protagonist is the character in the story that is usually considered the good guy. The antagonist is usually considered the bad guy and clashes with the protagonist. In the story “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner he has a clear protagonist and antagonist. The protagonist of the story is Sarti. The antagonist of the story is Sarti’s father Abner. Faulkner makes this a very interesting story to

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    he’s free-I don’t know how. Any way‚ it looks like he’s coming back” (Foreman 295). After Kane and everyone in town knew that Miller was coming‚ they knew he coming to seek revenge on the person who put him away. In “The Most Dangerous Game” the antagonist‚ General Zaroff‚ has different intentions than Miller. As the story began‚ General Zaroff said “‘Life is for the strong‚ to be lived by the strong‚ and‚ if needs be‚ taken by the strong. The weak of the world were out here to give the strong pleasure’”

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