and Austen use different ways of presenting attitudes towards love and marriage‚ Shakespeare uses a play and Austen uses a novel. Although they use different forms they both use very alike techniques and story lines‚ but in particular their characterisations and ways of contrasting are very corresponding and give a very similar effect on the reader. In spite of the fact that these two texts were written over 200 years apart‚ they both highlight and show important themes‚ for example; the expectations
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He portrays a rather innocent‚ friendly man‚ but the way he approached the American and singled him out raised the question is he trustworthy?. Hamids’ decision as an author to write the novel as a monologue contributes to this feeling. Characterisation – what type of character do we have in TRF? Stereotypes? How does the author want us to feel about particular characters? Do we get to know them? * I wouldn’t call Changez a “stereotypical” Pakistani. He comes from a wealthy background
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Red dress-1946 is a short story from Dance of the happy shades (a collection of short stories) by Alice Munroe. It is about the great social pressures faced by the narrator‚ surrounding the chronological events that take place before‚ during and after a school dance. The ‘Red dress’ is the dress her mother makes her for the dance‚ when she would clearly like to buy one instead from a store‚ this suggests to us that she can-not afford readymade clothes which then leads us to presume she is of a lower
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In the film "Witness" starring Harrison Ford‚ producer Peter Weir has created two different worlds with different value systems. He has done this through the use of juxta-positioning‚ camera angles set at different heights and the process of character development. In the Film‚ John Book played by Harrison Ford plays the parts of detective‚ protector‚ and refugee‚ all to solve the murder case of another Police Officer. The only witness to the murder is 7-year-old Samuel who is unofficially under Books
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2011 HSC In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Room of One’s Own? Context is vividly reflected through artistic texts over time in order to assert the author’s opinion on the same human issues‚ such as truth. Virginia Woolf’s A room of one’s own (1928) dismantles the strength of the patriarchy and their singular truth‚ through the creative form of her lecture given at a women’s college‚ to empower women to speak
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Suzanne Collins contemporary novel‚ The Hunger Games‚ the author represents women and girls in a variety of ways. Suzanne Collins represents feminine qualities in women and girls in a negative way in her novel‚ The Hunger Game. Collins uses characterisation to depict feminine qualities as being a drawback. An example of this can be seen in her portrayal of Prim and her mother‚ who share similar traditional feminine qualities‚ “My little sister Prim‚ curled up on her side‚ cocooned in my mother’s
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nothing of betraying friends or allies in his conquest to secure the most notorious career in history. Since Henry VIII sent his chief minister and close advisor to the scaffold five centuries ago on 28 July 1540‚ historians have debated on the characterisation of Cromwell. Was he a manipulative death merchant who‚ throughout his political career killed and victimised thousands of innocent people for obeying their religious beliefs. Or was Cromwell simply a man of modest decent‚ risen from the ashes
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her what she needs of it‚ and takes the rest in return for other provisions”. We are given a highly visual glimpse of an unrelenting monotonous and isolating setting. This harsh‚ physical backdrop becomes an important narrative element in the characterisation of the mother. The technique of repetition adds emphasis and enhances the visual image. The expression ‘bush’ helps to create a visual which is distinctively an Australian outback setting. Lawson repeats this term to give the reader a sense
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the values of Romanticism; emotion‚ spirituality and harmony. It serves as a warning against the unchecked scientific progress that was taking place around Shelley. Shelley develops the concept of Man usurping God’s role as creator through her characterisation of Victor. The heavenly imagery “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn” characterises Victor as disrespectful of God’s Laws‚ his arrogant ambition a symbol of the irreverent scientists of the Enlightenment. Creation once
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aesthetics. These are portrayed as threats to Othello’s power and lead to a disintegration of his upright power. The excerpt viewed illustrates Iago loading his weapon and Othello‚ with a jealous fury. Parker’s care of constructing contributes to characterisation of Othello’s black clad garment
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