animal that serves as a reminder to look to seek higher knowledge both mentally and emotionally.They represent diplomacy‚ shyness and tend to have a peaceful‚ easy-going nature. Laura‚ from Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie‚” is a troubled character that exhibits many sloth like traits. Not only is she physically slow‚ she is also secluded from society in an illness induced haze. This disillusionment from reality has left her socially and mentally impaired. “Sloth is the most destructive and
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CahBaleigh Dunkleberger Mrs. Williams Creative Writing Character Sketch 29 September 2012 A Toddler for an Older Brother “Our siblings’ push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago: the baby‚ the peacekeeper‚ the caretaker‚ the avoider.” This quote by Jane Merksy Leder describes my six foot two inches‚ oldest brother‚ Brad. Growing up in a household with six children‚ Brad‚ being the oldest‚ has always been the trouble maker. He is and always has been putting
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Character Analysis of Agamemnon Power as prime motivation In The Iliad‚ Homer gives us many characters to examine: Some characters are simple while some are complicated‚ some are heroic‚ some are cowards‚ some are motivated by the desire for kleos and plunder while some are motivated by power. Each warrior goes into battle with different responsibilities‚ obligations and motives depending on rank and class. For example‚ a king has different motivations for going to war than a soldier has.
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Introduction Shakespearean tragedy is a story of one‚ or at most two persons. As a rule‚ they are male protagonists. But to say that Shakespeare’s female characters are shallow‚ undeveloped and used just as a decoration on the stage is very wrong. Women in Shakespeare’s tragedies have no leading role and they are‚ to paraphrase Northrop Frye‚[1] not tragic heroines‚ but heroines in a tragedy. All female characters in Shakespeare’s tragedies have one thing in common – they end up dead. It is
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In Shakespeare’s play‚ "King Lear"‚ Shakespeare uses foil characters in opposition to the main heroes in order to compare and contrast personal qualities‚ goodness and sins‚ values and traditions of the society. In the play there are many foil characters that could compared and contrast. The main characters that shows comparison and contrasts are King Lear and Gloucester‚ Cordelia and Goneril/Regan‚ and Edgar and Edmund. King Lear and Gloucester are similar in many ways but they have contrast
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In the play Antigone‚ written by Sophocles‚ the tragic protagonist is Antigone because she possesses a fatal flaw‚ or hamartia‚ that leads to her catastrophe‚ “the tragic protagonist’s ruin or downfall” (class handout). Antigone’s flaw is her hubris‚ “some kind of overweening pride or arrogant reliance on oneself” (class handout). Antigone believes that burying the body of her brother‚ Polynices‚ she is doing the will of the gods. When talking to Ismene about burying the body of Polynices‚ after
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Appearance Versus Reality in Frankenstein By: Corbin Schmidt “The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully necessary to seem to know something as to know it” -Daniel Webster. One of the most important themes in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is appearance versus reality. This theme comes into fruition throughout the novel‚ most notably when Shelley provides insight into the characters of the story and how they are immediately judged by their looks in most cases rather
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Character of Emilia in Othello Emilia is a character in the tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare. The character’s origin is traced to the 1565 tale‚ "Un capitano Moro" from Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio’s Gli Hecatommithi. There‚ the character is described as young and virtuous‚ is referred to simply as the ensign’s wife‚ and becomes Desdemona’s companion in Cyprus. In Shakespeare‚ she is named Emilia‚ is the wife of Othello’s ensign‚ Iago‚ and is an attendant to Othello’s wife‚ Desdemona
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For Victor‚ being in society surrounded by innocent bystanders‚ he cannot tolerate it. His guilt is immense. If the people knew his true crimes‚ they would chase him out of the town‚ just as they did to the monster. He wants to tell his father but decides not to. There has been too much misery for the poor man. It would break his father’s heart. Victor does not blame the creature for the deaths of William‚ Justine‚ and Henry. In his mind‚ he was responsible for their deaths. When Elizabeth writes
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle set forth the guidelines for a tragedy in his work Poetics. According to Aristotle‚ the tragic character in a tragedy is a person‚ not all good or bad‚ who begins in a rank of high degree and importance and then experiences a downfall due to a tragic flaw. In the end of most tragedies‚ the character comes to a realization of his flaw after enduring a great deal of suffering. William Shakespeare‚ an English playwright of the 17th century‚ composed many tragedies‚ including
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