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    Round character Definition: A round character is a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. Round characters tend to be more fully developed and described than flat‚ or static‚ characters. If you think of the characters you most love in fiction‚ they probably seem as real to you as people you know in real life. This is a good sign that they are round characters. A writer employs a number of tools or elements to develop a character‚ making him or her round

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    Therefore‚ if a woman remained unmarried for the rest of her life‚ she would remain dependent on her relatives‚ living with or receiving a small income from her father‚ brothers or any other relative that could afford to support her. The central theme of the novel concerns itself with marriage‚ as indicated in the ironic opening line of the book. Throughout the novel‚ it is not the man seeking the wife but more so Mrs. Bennet seeking

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    death and his mother’s marriage. He wants to die. He would commit suicide if God wouldn’t have a rule against it. If you commit suicide you go straight to hell. Quote number one is important for Aristotle’s third rule for tragedy. The third rule of tragedy says‚ the main character must experience a reversal of fortune or a discovery. Because Hamlet’s fortune is already so bad‚ the audience knows it is not about fortune but about discovery. Quote #2: P. 67 (Hamlet I: v‚ 29- 31) Quote #2 is spoken

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    rest. Antigone is a tragic hero in the Greek play called Antigone. A tragic hero is character who is dignified and superior and whose downfall is caused by a tragic flaw. They usually think that they are in the right mind when the rest of society thinks that they are mad. A tragic flaw is a weakness or error that the tragic hero has. Antigone believes in her heart far stronger than that of the leader’s rule.

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    letter to Elizabeth. One of the main themes that Austen is trying to convey through this passage is to avoid judging people and their actions superficially by the revealing of truth and motives through the setting of the letter where Darcy seek to explain himself and seek Elizabeth’s understanding. We can see Darcy’s attempt when he wrote “I shall hope to be secured in future‚ when the following account of my actions and their motives has been read.” (150-151‚ Pride and Prejudice) His justification

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    Tragedy is an event causing great suffering‚ destruction‚ and distress‚ such as a serious accident‚ crime‚ or natural catastrophe”(Google.com). Tragic event occur everyday in our life we don’t see them as much as we hear about them. For example‚ the deaths that we witness everyday in the Palestine Israeli war‚ and the war on ISIS which ruined the whole middle east. In the Shakespeare play Macbeth the main character Macbeth experienced hamartia and hubris through the play. Hamartia is a fatal flaw

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    Originally written in the late 1700’s‚ Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice satirically depicts the universal ideals in Old Regency England‚ primarily regarding social class. Austen follows the development of an outspoken middle-class British woman‚ Elizabeth Bennet‚ as she encounters and overcomes the many social barriers that separate her from her wealthy upper-class neighbors. Throughout the novel‚ Lizzie must confront society’s class-consciousness‚ particularly with her family’s growing relationship

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    The story Pride and Prejudice is about Elizabeth Bennet –the protagonist- her four sisters‚ her mother and her father live in England in Harfordshire. Mr. Bingley a handsome‚ rich young man goes and visits where the Bennet’ s live and Mrs. Bennet tries to get one of her daughters married as soon as she sees the opportunity. Mrs. Bennet missing no time gets Jane Bennet (Elizabeth’s sister) to counter with Mr. Bingley- who she later marries- and falls in love but‚ Mr. Darcy separates them because of

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    Unlike John Merrick‚ the creature becomes violent and monstrous because of his education. In the novel‚ Frankenstein‚ the creature is self-educated because he was abandoned and left alone after he was “brought to life and born” by his creator‚ Victor Frankenstein. He begins observing the cottage family known as the DeLaceys. It is because of the DeLaceys‚ who indirectly educate the creature‚ which leads to his destructive and outraging behavior. After the

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    Character is Fate – Essay “A man’s character is his fate” once said the Greek philosopher Heraclites. By this he meant that our personalities and actions shape the outcomes of our lives and therefore our destiny. This statement opposes the traditional view that man’s fate is determined by an external force (name it god or even chance). This argument is basically one of faith: do you believe we shape our own futures by how we act‚ or are our lives programmed in a certain unchangeable way? In other

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