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    Assignment Number: #1 Point Value: 25 point Character Analysis Odysseus- Role: He is the protagonist of The Odyssey and now he struggles to return home. Outcome: Odysseus returns home and lives happily ever after with Penelope and Telemachus until he is killed by Telegonus‚ his son by Circe‚ and taken to be buried at Circe’s home. Personalities: Odysseus is confident‚ has great integrity and had powerful strength and courage in himself. Changes throughout the epic: Odysseus changes throughout

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    Mason  1 Aliisa  Mason Professor  Lewis ENG102-­AI 23  February  2014 Ma  Joad  Character  Analysis The  Grapes  of  Wrath  is  a  story  about  family  and  hardships  during  the  time  of  the  Great Depression.  The  story  follows  the  Joad  family  as  they  search  for  jobs  out  west  after  being  forced  out  of their  home  in  Oklahoma.  The  Joad’s  are  challenged.  They  have  hardly  any  money  and  jobs  are  very scarce.  Throughout  the  novel  the  family  struggles

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    Fabian Ramos Mrs. West English 10 3-17-11 Character Analysis The city of Chicago was one of the worst places to be at during the 1960’s. No one had good paying jobs. The town alone was run down on the Southside. Walter Lee Younger has many personalities that have to do with him being stubborn‚ easily tempered‚ and rude. Walter lee younger is stubborn because he likes to get what he wants when it came to the money he kept asking about it. “Well‚ what was you doing all that yelling

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    CHARACTER ANALYSIS – To Kill a Mockingbird Character | Characteristics/Qualities | Important Quotes | Additional Information | ATTICUS | Atticus has integrity and believes that abiding the law (courthouse and humanity) is necessary.He demonstrates the qualities: * Humbleness/ modesty: he does not want attention for his good deeds. * Integrity * Loyalty: to his family and courthouse. * No prejudice: with regards to the coloured people. * Honesty: he was prepared to turn in Jem as a murderer

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    February 10th‚ 2014 Character Analysis "Go ahead‚ Dr. Scott. Alternatively‚ should I say‚ Dr. ‘Von’ Scott‚” was said by the notorious Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Dr. Frank-N-Furter was a self-proclaimed “Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania” and the main antagonist of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He is somewhat different from most villains as he dons female attire‚ stockings‚ a corset and high heels. His main goal was to create a perfect man as his own sexual plaything‚ which he does in

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    Hawthorne‚ Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is a young man who achieved fame in England as a theologian and then immigrated to America. In a moment of weakness‚ he and Hester Prynne‚ a young‚ beautiful‚ married woman whose husband is away in Europe‚ become lovers. Although he will not confess it publicly‚ Dimmesdale is the father of her child; also‚ he deals with the guilt by tormenting himself physically and psychologically‚ developing a heart condition in the process. Dimmesdale is an intelligent and emotional

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    Emily the Fallen Rose In the story “A Rose for Emily”‚ William Faulkner uses characterization to reveal the character of Miss Emily. Her character is portrayed through physical description‚ her actions‚ feelings and words‚ and through the narrator ’s remarks about Emily’s nature‚ and through the actions‚ words‚ and feelings‚ of the other characters. In "A Rose for Emily"‚ William Faulkner creates a story about a woman who loses her sense of reality

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    the fect that he is the only character in the tale who doesn’t cheat or trick someone. Despite this‚ he’s the one who suffers the most throughout the tale. His wife‚ Alisoun‚ cheats on him. He is tricked into spending the night in a bathtub hanging from the rafters of his house. He ends up falling‚ embarrassing himself in front of the town. Alisoun‚ John’s wife‚ is also Nicholas’s lover. She is well-known as being beautiful‚ married at only 18. She is the only character who goes unpunished in the

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    On numerous occasions you can see the impact that Dimmesdale endures because of holding this sin inside. Unlike Hester‚ Dimmesdale has to keep this sin locked inside of his heart and mind and the guilt begins to eat away at him. Throughout the book you can see how much Dimmesdale starts to worry and fret about it and the remorse he feels consumes his life. Dimmesdale for the first time finally confesses his true feelings to Hester. He even feels the guilt of the sin weighing down on him because

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    In the first scaffold scene Dimmesdale is aware of his guilt and hypocrisy when he questions Hester but is too cowardly to confess his sin. Hester‚ while holding her child‚ stands in front of the public on the scaffold enduring humiliation and trial from the authorities of the town‚ in which they insist upon her to reveal the child’s father. Even Dimmesdale‚ as one of the authorities‚ says to her‚ “what can thy silence do for him‚ except… to add hypocrisy to sin?” However‚ she is unwilling to

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