Section A: Fiction Assignment This is an extract from the‚ Midnight’s Children‚ by Salman Rushdie. In this extract‚ the protagonist‚ Saleem Sinai shares the history about his birth and the significance of why his birth is considered as a historical event. He explains how on the 15th of August 11947‚ he was born but at the very time of his entrance into the world‚ India gained its independence from the British. The rest of the extract is focused on his concerns and feelings about sharing his monumental
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how the ladies needed to follow certain rules‚ for example the role of the women in the home or the women image. Among all these situations‚ the protagonist starts looking for her true
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The Glass Menagerie and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? The Glass Menagerie was written by Tennessee Williams and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was written by Peter Hedges. The first main difference between these two works is that The Glass Menagerie was a memory play that premiered in 1944 and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was a novel in 1991 that was later adapted into a film in 1993. The main factor in The Glass Menagerie is that the characters and the story mimic the author’s own life‚ which he
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playwright has managed to set the subject for this play by emphasizing desire by the means of putting the very word in the title of the this play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire. The protagonist and the antagonist both pursue desire but do so in different ways thus it leads them down separate paths. For Blanche‚ the protagonist‚ desire has been something that she has witnessed through out life‚ first learning about it by hearing of the ‘epic fornications’ of her ancestors and later by experiencing it herself
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been killed‚ along with the king from Macbeth. Finally‚ the ending of both movies the prince returned to defeat protagonist. In the ending of both the towns had surrendered with king/great lords head. Therefor Macbeth and Throne of Blood have a good comparison on the plots. The final reason Macbeth and Throne of Blood are connected in similarity is there theme. Both of the protagonists should have known right from wrong. If the wives had not pushed them to do wrong the circumstances may have been
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"privileged" and the "underprivileged" classes. Time after time emotions of despair surface from both the protagonist and the antagonist involved in the story. This story outlines two distinct protagonists and two distinct antagonists. The first two are Colonel Sartoris Snopes ("Sarty") and his father Abner Snopes ("Ab"). Sarty is the protagonist surrounded by his father antagonism whereas Ab is the protagonist antagonized by the social structure and the struggle that is imposed on him and his family.
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We all have a dark side‚ even the heros and the good guys. In fact there’s this hero‚ Bilbo‚ who has a dark side of his own. There are many protagonists and antagonists in The Hobbit‚ but let’s face it‚ the only real problem and solution is the main character‚ Bilbo himself. Bilbo is not only the main character in The Hobbit‚ but also is his own protagonist and antagonist. Throughout the book‚ there are multiple ways all these sides of Bilbo are shown; the attack from the spiders‚ escaping the goblins
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they discover an axe. The Hitch-Hiker is written in 3rd person point of view and positions the reader as if their Carole Phillips (main character‚ protagonist). The reader is made to feel positive and to like the main character. For the hitch-hiker on the other hand we have neutral feelings at first‚ but then we grow suspicious as the protagonists thoughts and seeing’s are brought into the scene about the situation. When the axe is revealed in the hitch-hikers bag we are positioned to dislike the
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November 6th‚ 2012 Christopher Nolan A director’s job is to properly execute a movie that provokes emotions and thought in the viewer’s eyes; this is exactly what Christopher Nolan does. Some of his most famous movies: The Dark Knight Rises‚ Memento‚ and Inception draw the viewer in and are great examples of Nolan’s unique style. Everything in his movies including lighting‚ sound‚ plot‚ character usage‚ storytelling and more can be identified as his own when one watches a Nolan directed movie
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Essay Hamlet‚ the prince of Denmark‚ is visited by a ghost resembling his father‚ the king of Denmark‚ who recently died. The ghost tells Hamlet that his father was murdered by Claudius‚ the king’s brother‚ who took the throne immediately after his death and married Hamlet’s mother‚ Gertrude. The ghost encourages Hamlet to avenge his father’s death. The aim to kill the betrayer becomes a hard task for Hamlet. He is slow to take action although he never abandons his
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