John introduced us to a character called Curley’s wife‚ she plays a complex and misfit character as she got so many different sides to her‚ as sometimes the reader feels sympathetic and unsympathetic about her. John Steinbeck’s novel of Mice and Men is an example of how the reader’s perception of a character can change without the character actually changing. Steinbeck uses many different techniques to present Curley’s wife such as colour imagery‚ appearance‚ metaphors and similes in the early
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actions. Empathising with Mrs Dubose corroborates to us the importance of treating everyone is with kindness‚ and that we can admire bravery that differs from our traditional definition. Walking in the shoes of Miss Caroline teaches us that we can sympathise with people who we disagree with and often people act a certain way because of how they have been taught‚ not because they posses cruel
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watching them being performed live on a stage provide two very different representations of the same idea‚ with one highlighting themes that the other might understate or vice versa. While reading The Crucible‚ I found that I while I could easily sympathise with Proctor and his wife‚ I did not emotionally connect to the other convicted characters‚ such as Giles Corey or Goody Nurse. However‚ after watching The Crucible performed on stage‚ I realised that I felt much more connected to the other characters
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admire her as being one of the few who grew strong from the suffering she witnessed during the plague‚ and of the tragic loss of her children. The courageous journey that Brooks takes us on through the eyes of Anna is one that the reader can both sympathise for and admire. The way Anna reacts to what others say to her and the way that they act towards her‚ gives out a lot to learn about her personality‚ and how in the beginning she comes off to be the type of person to be easily overcome and influenced
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Analyse the use of Performance/Mise-en-scène in American Beauty (Sam Mendes‚ 1999); how is meaning created in my chosen clip? American Beauty has been described as a “blood-chilling dark comedy” and a “beautifully executed drama”‚ both of which are appropriate. Through Kevin Spacey’s intelligent and realistic portrayal of Lester Burnham and Sam Mendes’ meticulously arranged image of Lester’s life‚ we can find humour and draw a bitter parallel between our lives and those of the characters. I have
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Discuss and compare questionable motives within ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘In Cold Blood’ The extracts I have chosen are ‘Frankenstein’ (page 102-104) and ‘In Cold Blood’ (page 135-137). My first extract from ’In Cold Blood’ begins with perry a criminal describing when he is arrested at Mexico city hotel‚ he expresses himself in a way that portrays his lack of education as well as his continuous frustration with life. The extract then goes on to present a letter written to Perry from his sister Barbara
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daugher." On line 270 we are given a clear insight into Creon’s character here‚ an honest man who is scared and will put his family first. We are able to relate to this character‚ he is given mortal characteristics which makes us more likely to sympathise with him. Creon then admits that Medea is "clever‚ skilled in many evil arts." line 273‚ we are unable to relate to these arts‚ we do not poses the same abilities that Medea had and as a result‚ we are less sympathetic to her from the start‚ she
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and Jim to make us feel sympathy for Laura and Tom‚ whilst we dislike Jim. In the Glass Menagerie‚ Williams positions us so that we feel sympathy for Laura. By most readers she is generally considered the main protagonist of the story or the one sympathise most with out of all the characters. She lived in a day where there was no sympathy for the disabled‚ any such allowances or even kindness from others. Even her own mother did not want to admit or talk about how her daughter was disabled. When
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‘No decent folk to hear me cry’ [25]. Zephaniah is signifying that there is no-one decent enough to sympathise for him. He then goes on to say ‘No god fearers or infidel/ can save me from this Lex Loci’ [26-27]. ‘No god fearers‚’ Zephaniah is implying that they are senseless people with no heart to sympathise for him or even care about him at all. Zephaniah exposes the injustice imposed on him and on people who share the same race to both sympathy and
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Distracted driving is a modern day epidemic. The National Safety Council reports that cellphone use while driving leads to over one-million car accidents a year. This image clearly shows the dangers of using electronics while on the road. The woman in the photo is sprawled on the road and appears to be dead. Her body is wrapped in headphones and looks similar to a chalk outline of a police investigation. The woman is holding some sort of electronic device‚ she could’ve been a driver in an accident
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