“It is often said that protagonists in plays are flawed in some way.” To what degree and with what effect are the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonists significant to two or three plays you have studied. In the universality of human experience‚ every individual has endured a serious flaw in character and lapse of judgement. Playwrights such as Ibsen and Friel move from this macrocosmic view of the human condition‚ and confine the natural human tendency to reveal their flaws‚ often in a
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Ben- awkward‚ doesn’t make volleyball team‚ can’t talk to the girl he likes‚ Ben tries to become a ‘man of stone’‚ Claude- likes Kat‚ Aunt Frieda- separated from her son Beth- cook Mad- actress Joni- painter Jacob- Aunt Frieda’s son Fish- Stan- went missing/ran away‚ police can’t find him‚ detentional center‚ was trying to work up the guts to call home‚ beat up a man because was bugging him about not get off the phone‚ -grow in self-confidence and self-knowledge -scattered household
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in life are bitter-sweet‚ and so are many knowledgeable women. Aunt Alexandra in To Kill A Mockingbird portrays this very well. Although Alexandra Hancock is hypocritical and racist‚ she is also extremely loving. The south is harsh‚ yet has beautiful aspects‚ Alexandra Hancock makes this very clear. Due to Aunt Alexandra’s hypocritical‚ racist‚ and loving personality she shows Jem and Scout the beauty and flaws of southern culture. Aunt Alexandra is heavily involved with her missionary circle‚ and
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fifth season of the Andy Griffith show‚ Aunt Bee gets a mysterious letter from‚ “a boy I used to keep company with‚” (1964)‚ he comes to visit and Andy is annoyed by him. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the‚ “Aunt Bee’s Romance” episode on the Andy Griffith show‚ from a critical studies perspective. I argue that the Andy Griffith show’s episode‚ “Aunt Bee’s Romance”‚ Andy reaffirms his masculinity by pointing out the inadequacy of the elderly with Aunt Bee‚ Roger Hanover and Floyd Lawson. I
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story James and the Giant Peach is James. James is a kid that is a shy kid only around his aunts. He lives with his aunts after his parents died from a hippopotamus accident. He was a great kid before and after his parents died‚but when his parents died. He went to live with his two aunts because they were his only two living relatives. James became a shy and scared person from the mistreatment from his aunts. James was a very charming little boy that never caused any trouble for the most part.For
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of her aunt‚ which served as a warning to not dishonor the family‚ Kingston decides not to mention her aunt’s name because it would hurt his father. According to the narrator‚ the fact that the entire family chose to forget her and erase every trace or sign of her from their memory was worse than the raid the villagers inflicted. Her family must have been in agreement with the village to some extent when they attacked their house because they did not try to protect the author’s forgotten aunt. The
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to shift from favourable ground. So his boy-cousin and girl-cousin and his quite uninteresting younger brother were to be taken to Jagborough sands that afternoon and he was to stay at home. His cousins’ aunt‚ who insisted‚ by an unwarranted stretch of imagination‚ in styling herself his aunt also‚ had hastily invented the Jagborough expedition in order to impress on Nicholas the delights that he had justly forfeited by his disgraceful conduct at the breakfast-table. It was her habit‚ whenever one
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Characters Comparison Calpurnia vs. Aunt Alexandra By: Patrick Anderson In the book To Kill a Mockingbird I thought that the two characters that would be best to compare would be Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra. I picked these two for a couple reasons. One they are both against each other‚ seeing as Aunt Alexandra wants to fire Calpurnia. Another is they are both alike in a way‚ they are both mother figures in Scouts life. One reason Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra being mother figures to scout
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created by God‚ which compliments the woman Browning is talking about because it shows his feelings on how he believes they don’t have to try to be beautiful. Roses also represent love and passion‚ the colour red is an intimate colour that represents seduction and sometimes danger as seen in ‘Of Mice and Men’ where Curley’s wife is referred to as having “full rouged lips” and “red fingernails”. The thorns on roses continues this theme of potential risk‚ because the simple idea of men picking roses for
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doesn’t say anything to lead him to believe that she approved of his intentions with her. In the poem there is no conversation between them; Holofernes simply orders that she be bought to his room. His death is a result of his drunkenness‚ not her seduction. . In the bible version Judith’s people are shown as more religious than military. They follow elders and priests rather than Kings and Generals.
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