Writing Portfolio The 2001 biopic/drama film ‘A Beautiful Mind’‚ directed by Ron Howard is a prime example of a text in which visual and verbal techniques are used to develop the personality of a character. An important job for the director of any film is to establish a framework and personality for the protagonist. ‘A Beautiful Mind’ is no different‚ and visual and verbal techniques are used effectively to develop the personality of John Nash. But because Ron Howard is dealing with a very
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When John and Lorraine first met Angelo Pignati they were completely unaware of how important they would become to him. Mr Pignati had had no one since his beloved wife‚ Conchetta‚ had recently passed away and becoming friends with John and Lorraine made him feel young again. Mr Pignati was relatively older than John and Lorraine and as he spent more time with them added extra stress on both his mental and physical health. When John and Lorraine first met Mr Pignati it was all a big game and they
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Hamlet Trial Response The aspect of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that is most interesting to me is the playwright’s intimate depiction of Hamlet’s daily struggle againt the world. Through soliloquies and characterisation‚ we see that Hamlet’s world is a cold‚ political one‚ unreceptive to his grief‚ and this fundamental incompatibility is ultimately what creates and drives the play’s great drama behind his struggle‚ his murderous plot‚ uncertainty‚ and finally his thoughtful‚ accepting resolve at the end
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Vincent Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work highly impacted 20th century art. His works had a distinct stylistic theme that had a sort of melting effect within them. Many of them also included his iconic swirls that provided as a base for backgrounds. Out of his 900 paintings‚ only a few incorporated solid shapes and lines. Looking at his works‚ I tried to imagine dancing them. I found that the swirls could serve as a trajectory for different body parts or pathways‚ and the almost
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Summary And Characterization Summary The story “Who’s Irish” by Gish Jen is a short story about an elderly Chinese grandmother living with her daughters family in America‚ trying to help raise their child Sophia. She struggles watching Sophie grow up in a culture so distant from the way she raised her daughter‚ and even further from how she was raised herself. She does not fit into the western culture‚ and seems to find flaws and lack of moral everywhere‚ especially in her daughter’s husband
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By the Waters of Babylon” was written by Stephen Vincent Benet in July of 1937. That same year‚ just months before‚ a bombing happened on April 28‚ 1937. Both of these works of writing dealing with great destruction‚ destruction of whole cities. One is a true story and one is a fictional story but‚ they both have some similarities between them. “By the Waters of Babylon” deal with a Priest son who is making his journey to become a priest himself. The dead lands are places no one goes except for
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In her novella‚ Ethan Frome‚ Edith Wharton uses characterization to indicate that Mattie Silver is lively and innocent‚ which is refreshing to Ethan Frome after managing Zenobia’s sickliness and bothersome personality. Mattie’s last name‚ Silver‚ compares her character to the precious metal: bright‚ valuable‚ and a luxury. Ethan greatly values being in her presence‚ as “no moments in her company were comparable to those when [...] they walked back through the night to the farm” (Wharton 13). Additionally
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Wuthering Heights deals with the very nature of controversy and paradox. The novel expresses deep criticisms of social conventions‚ and Brontë uses her characters in their incongruous surroundings to exemplify her concerns of the strict social code which she herself was expected to abide by‚ whilst remaining true to the principles she considered most important. Wuthering Heights challenges orthodoxy with heterodoxy‚ of which destruction and chaos triumph over social pretensions. The most undeniably
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Edgar Allan Poe’s use of character in his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” has left me wondering. The reason it left me wondering is because of the way the character acts. The character changes throughout the whole short story. The meaning of “character” is an imagined person in a fictional story. The author then invests the character with moral and emotional qualities. The importance of the character is determined by what he or she does. The main character as well as the minor characters are
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Imagine if everyone around you considered you a hero‚ but in order to become a hero‚ you had to murder somebody. Not just anybody either‚ but Captain Torres. A murderer‚ who has killed many of your people. Given the option‚ would you kill them? This is the same scenario a Barber faces. In the story “Later and Nothing Else” by Hernando Téllez‚ the protagonist faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide to either kill‚ or not kill‚ Captain Torres. He must weigh the pros and cons of his reputation
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