Indicates that she is intelligent and possesses abilities beyond wifehood. Nora’s character becomes questionable when she starts breaking away from all the standards and expectations her husband and society had set up for her‚ this making her a morally ambiguous character. Early in the Helmers’ marriage‚ Torvalds got sick from overwork. Doctors prescribed a trip south to warmer climates as the only way to save him. At the time‚ the Helmers didn’t have the money for such a trip. To save Torvalds’s
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Morally Ambiguous Characters What does it mean to be morally ambiguous? The characters created by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Francis Bret Harte are divided between being purely good or purely evil. The environments that the characters live in are judgmental and hypocritical. While being isolated from society‚ they also deal with struggling to disassociate themselves from their pasts. The Scarlet Letter and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” characters Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and John Oakhurst illustrate
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Laszlo‚ a heroic political leader; Ilsa Lund‚ an enigmatic femme fatale; and Richard (Rick) Blaine‚ a seemingly morally ambiguous night club owner. An unusual love triangle forms with the two men’s mutual love for the intermediary woman. Unlike the archetypal romantic triangle which includes the betrayed husband and the victorious lover‚ this situation results in unhappiness and loss for all involved. All three are willing to sacrifice for this love‚ regardless of the suffering that results from its
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AP Lit Essay Prompt option #1 In Oscar Wilde’s novel‚ “The Picture of Dorian Gray” one of the main characters Lord Henry Wotton is portrayed‚ as morally ambiguous. Wilde reveals Lord Henry’s ambiguous character through the way he talks‚ he has a more charming tone to him‚ but he leads a conversation in such a seducing way Dorian falls under his spell so fast. Lord Henry’s ambiguity is significant to the work as a whole because without Henry would Dorian of taken the same path that he took? Yes
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Ambiguous Media The influential power of the media is not an issue to be taken lightly. This influence can harbor tremendous benefits‚ or catastrophic consequences. Hotel Rwanda begins with a black screen‚ where the only thing we are exposed to is a radio broadcast‚ consisting of negative propaganda concerning Tutsi rebels in Rwanda. This is important‚ in that the black screen represents our minds‚ with the only input being what we hear over the broadcast. This gives us a sense of what the
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we love. This book written by the classic author Nathaniel Hawthorne has a lot of ambiguous characters. Hawthorne used his characters to portray irony and moral ambiguity. The most intriguing character I chose that displays moral ambiguity is Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale. His character is fairly interesting being that he is a reverend minister and an adulterer. We learn that Dimmesdale is a prime example of an ambiguous character because he doesn’t have the courage to be the right person and do the right
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In the novel Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane‚ the country of the Diallob¨¦ is entirely ruled by a culture of faith‚ a mystical faith that gives the afterlife a supremacy. The Western world has‚ since the Renaissance‚ been engaged in a process of secularization that first "began‚ timidly‚ by putting God ’in parentheses.’ Then two centuries later‚ having acquired more assurance‚ they decreed ’God is dead’". (100) The West world is abundant in material but poor in spiritual‚ that creates
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shown to be unified and consistent with the stylistic features of the text to create an integrated whole. It is this textual integrity along with the universal issues she deals such as the nature of life and existence‚ the irreversibility of time‚ the loss of innocence with ages and the inevitability of death that allows Harwood’s poetry to transcend time and provide meaning to a range of different contexts. Harwood’s A Valediction‚ The Violets‚ and Father and Child demonstrate the ability of literature
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In the novel of “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck invented an extremely ambiguous character known as Curely’s Wife. Readers would ether like or dislike the personality of Curley’s Wife. Her dream was to be in the movies as she quotes “Nother time I met a guy an’ he was in pitchers. Went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural” In the novel she was massively disliked by the other characters for her attracting the attention of other men
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(Eliot 38‚46‚121) and “Should I presume?” (Eliot 54‚61‚68) appears multiple times. The reason for the repetition of these rhetorical questions is to emphasize the question if he should do something or dare to do it. These questions support how ambiguous Prufrock is in making choices in his life. Critics that analyzed this specific poem found the repetitions was confusing. “The narrative line founders and is immediately bemused by the repetitions of “ Do I dare ?” and “Do I dare ?” (Scobie). Prufrock
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