unlimited number of villains we have to choose from‚ as our incessant need to create heroes whom we can place hope in continues‚ the Grinch is by far the best villain. In the movie‚ "The Grinch"‚ he proves to know his power isn’t his ability to destroy things but the happiness of the people who own them. He knows more than death and demolition his ability to be the Grinch‚ to spread his disease of depression and take away the very enthusiasm that pushes WhoVille forward as a society‚ gives him complete
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One Hateful Who with a Vicious Plan Who can hate Christmas you might ask? As evil and jealousy cross the mind of a mysterious Who‚ the Grinch has an awful‚ yet brilliant idea to steal the beloved holiday we know as Christmas. The award-winning movie and book‚ How the Grinch Stole Christmas‚ has been a classical Christmas time movie since the 1960’s. Written by the author that many kids are familiar with‚ the famous Dr. Seuss is the mastermind behind this miraculous story. As Ron Howard brings Dr
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lived a man named Grinch. Mr. Grinch was a cave-dwelling creature who lived on the highest peak of the mountain at 10‚000 feet. He lived just north of the small town of Who Ville. Mr. Grinch lives with his dog Max who‚ is his only companion. He spends most of his time in his cave alone‚ thinking of ways how he can steal Christmas from the people of Who Ville. He’s around the age of forty years old and is not employed. As well as he was abandoned as a child. But luckily‚ for Mr. Grinch he was raised by
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WHO: I guess. Well‚ it’s just I look around at you and Mom and everyone getting all kerbobbled. Doesn’t this seem superfluous! SUE: (Running in interupting) Dad! Dad! We saw him! NARRATOR: Every Who down in Whoville Liked Christmas a lot But the Grinch‚ who lived just north of Who-ville‚ did NOT! LOU:
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Using the Freudian concept of psychoanalytic to evaluate the Grinch it is easy to break his character and the reason he changed his opinion on the Who’s down. The Grinch’s death instinct and his desire for destruction‚ death and decay keeps him from rewarding himself with anything pleasurable. He instead shows his pleasure being that of the destruction of the Who’s and their love and joy of Christmas. Actions like this are typically shown when a person is acting out of their own anger about something
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“ The Grinch who stole Christmas” Archetypal Critique The critical school I chose was archetypical for the "Battle of the Critics." ” “The Grinch who stole Christmas” is full of quite a few archetypal characters‚ images and themes in the poem. In terms of characters‚ the antagonist is obviously the Grinch. He is a miserable person and against the happiness of the Who’s in Whoville until the conflicts of the story were resolved at the end. He can show the “bad guy” archetypal‚ because he pretends
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were a lot of interesting points made. However‚ I believe an archetypal lens best suits this poem because it factors in the ending‚ characters‚ and themes. At the end of the poem‚ the Grinch relinquishes all the stolen goods because he is touched by the spirit of Christmas. Within a Marxist context‚ the Grinch was stealing in order to abolish the class structure‚ and to sustain himself. However‚ he takes more than necessary and readily relinquishes it‚ proving that he is not stealing out of desperation
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Ans. Personality is the outcome of a continuous personal quality development process. The role of personality becomes clear in a particular situation. Personality is recognised in a situation. It is the result of personal quality interaction in a particular condition. The major determinants of personality of an individual are given below: Biological Factors Heredity: Heredity refers to those factors that were determined at conception. Physical stature‚ facial attractiveness‚ sex‚ temperament‚
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lived a man named Grinch. Mr. Grinch was a cave-dwelling creature who lived on the highest peak of the mountain at 10‚000 feet. He lived just north of the small town of Who Ville. Mr. Grinch lives with his dog Max who is his only companion. He spends most of his time in his cave alone‚ thinking of ways how he can steal Christmas from the people of Who Ville. He’s around the age of forty years old and is not employed. As well as he was abandoned as child. But luckily‚ for Mr. Grinch he was raised by
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development. These series of basic psychosocial conflicts throughout life determines one’s behavior and character. The Grinch is an example of someone who uncompleted three of these stages‚ as well successfully passing through one. The three stages he uncompleted were industry versus inferiority‚ intimacy versus isolation‚ and generativity versus stagnation. One stage that the Grinch did not complete was industry versus inferiority. In this stage‚ someone begins to have a sense of his or her abilities
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