THE QUIET AMERICAN Graham Greene THE QUIET AMERICAN Graham Greene READING THE NOVEL There are two main points of focus for your study of The Quiet American and for your responses as a reader. • Understanding the story of the novel and recognising the themes raised by the novel • Identifying and considering the cultural and moral issues presented in the story it tells. Understanding the Historical and Cultural Context To understand the themes and the moral and cultural issues raised by the novel
Premium Character Graham Greene Fiction
How do Shakespeare and Browning use linguistic and structural devices to present disturbed female characters in Macbeth and The Laboratory? The Guidelines Timing 4 hours Word count 2000 The Plan The Keywords The Way out AOs Assessment Objective one: ‘Respond to texts critically and imaginatively; select and use relevant textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations’ Ao2 Explain how language‚ structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas‚ themes‚ and settings’
Premium Gender Literature Fiction
Character: The main character is an elderly man by the name of Milton. Milton owns a quiet‚ secluded country home and equipped garden‚ near the shore. He lives a simple yet solemn life‚ spending a lot of time tending to his plants and being with nature. Travellers have stopped coming to visit and Milton is often alone. The supporting character is Pearl‚ a woman in her mid 20’s‚ who arrives at the house and to tend to the garden. She seems to be a new helping hand‚ as she doesn’t seem to know Milton
Premium Character Character Protagonist
Zharmaine Aguirre Psy21 Psychosexual Character Analysis There are five Psychosexual Character Types‚ namely: Oral character. Anal character‚ Phallic character‚ Latency character and Genital character. But among those five‚ I developed the Anal character. This is my personality. At the age of three I remember how I hide at the back of the door so nobody would notice that I’m trying to hold my feces from coming out. I don’t know why I love doing it. All I know is that although
Premium Phallic stage High school Psychosexual development
INTRO TO DRAMA – MASK: ACTOR CHARACTER ANALYSIS SHEET Student Name: Gretchen Parker Dramatic Interlude/Play Title: He and She Character Name: Ann Herford Complete this sheet not as though you are yourself‚ but as though you are playing this character in the play. Type in your answers. CHARACTER PAST I come from… Georgia My childhood was… Happy‚ with three brothers and two sisters. I was the baby‚ youngest. The experience that made the most lasting impression
Premium Drama Marriage Play
following report is to critically analyse and deconstruct the character of "the Joker" within the film "the Dark Knight" and discuss the reasoning of why this character was interpreted in such a way. The Joker‚ played by late Heath Ledger‚ is a terrifying villain who will stop at nothing to manipulate and corrupt his victims. However it is not the Jokers sinful love for destruction and chaos alone that makes him such a terrifying character‚ it is that he is flesh and blood; he is not immortal and does
Premium The Dark Knight Batman Christopher Nolan
with his riches are the main scheme. Characters and themes are plentiful in The Pearl and are widely discussed among critics. For that reason‚ this paper will compare‚ contrast‚ and assess the criticisms on the characters and themes in The Pearl. In The Pearl‚ the characters are discussed among critics in a similar opinion. The characters in The Pearl are produced to portray "universal types"� of people (Shuman 1896). This means that Steinbeck made the characters to have characteristics of people in
Free John Steinbeck Novella The Pearl
Meriem Jerbi MA1 Literature The study of characters of a literary work is as important as the study of its content because it offers a venue through which the writer’s thematic concerns are articulated and broached. In fact‚ critics and writers go to great lengths in drawing a well distinctive classification of characters. In the 20th century‚ a broad theoretical distinction was frequently made between flat and round characters. Relying on E.M Forster’s book _Aspects of the Novel_‚ this present
Premium Fiction Literature Play
in Shakespeare’s tragic plays. In these movingly charged plots‚ the characters often possess great power and appear invincible when‚ due to inherent character flaws‚ fall from grace and inevitably pay dearly with their own life. After reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ it is abundantly clear that at least three of its character invite the catastrophes that they ultimately experience. In this play‚ Macbeth is an archetypal character who meets the definition of Aristotelian tragic hero. Lady Macbeth also
Premium Macbeth English-language films Tragic hero
Character of Doctor Faustus The character of Dr. Faustus conceptualises the Aristotelian parameters of a tragic hero that embodies a ‘tragic flaw’ within a frame that is dazzling to such proportion as to pale other characters into insignificance. Faustus is a man of great scholarship and vast knowledge but with an intrinsic quality—an unquenchable thirst for knowledge that is beyond human whatever he has mastered seems pitifully inadequate: “Yet art thou still but Faustus and a Man.” His soul
Premium Poetics Tragic hero Tragedy