It was a grey afternoon with a dull sky. The wind was sighing in the tree top and boughs moaned. The dark‚ ragged and ominous clouds drifted over. Surprisingly‚ instead of beating down a curtain of rain from heavens‚ it only brought drizzle. “I wish it would rain cats and dogs.” Sylvia talked to herself while she was sitting in a bus looking up to the eerie sky. Sylvia was on the way to visit her father‚ alone. Her mom refused to go with her‚ she did not want to see him. They were divorced. Well
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between the audience and the protagonist differ in a tragedy and comedy because the audience has different feelings for each protagonist. Comedies are meant to make the audience feel happy overall‚ but there is little emotion the audience feels from the protagonist. For example‚ after a Greek trilogy was played‚ a comedy was played‚ so people wouldn’t feel so downhearted. Tragedies tend to emotionally move people because the audience can identify with and relate to the protagonist. In a tragedy the audience
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other authors poems throughout history‚ they created a particular style of writing: romanticism. With the use of romanticism‚ these authors booned their stories/poems with aspects of mood with diction that helps convey darker themes. The elements of Gothic Literature in the short stories the “Black Cat‚” “the Devil and Tom Walker‚” and Sharp Objects create a morbid mood through the usage of grotesque scenery‚ psychological issues‚ and death. To begin‚ in the “Black Cat” and Sharp Objects death is taken
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Scout is a great protagonist in To Kill A Mockingbird. Her character is well-developed and has many cheerful characteristics. She has all of the qualities of a good protagonist. But in every good story with a protagonist‚ there is an equally good antagonist. The many citizens of Maycomb are the great antagonists in this story. You could say that Aunt Alexandra is the antagonist of the story. She strongly dislikes Calpurnia and the other black people. She doesn’t think that black people should have
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him‚ Do call it valiant fury” (Caithness: Act V‚ Scene II) Consider Macbeth as a gothic protagonist in the light of this comment ANNELI ALIAGA Macbeth’s dimensional personality‚ steeped in the agonising internal conflicts and debatable sanity that stages his moral corruption‚ depict the archetypal gothic protagonist of a play written before the creation of the genre. As typically seen in a conventional gothic text‚ Shakespeare presents the protagonist’s progression from ambition to a transgressive
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In both “The Storm” and “A Respectable Woman”‚ The main female protagonists exert control over their sexuality and play major roles within their marriages. By playing these major roles‚ consequently‚ the male protagonists are respectful‚ of the female protagonists and value their thoughts. They do not dismiss what the women say because they are female‚ as many men did during these time periods. With the women engaging in sexual acts and/or having sexual desires without feeling guilty‚ Chopin challenges
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Dracula‚ Bram Stoker’s most well known novel‚ was written during the Gothic Era (1800-1865). Writers of gothic literature often created feelings of fear and mystery by focusing the plot on an ancient house that was used to harbor secrets or a place of refuge from a dangerous character. (Kennedy n.p.). Stoker used some characteristics of the Gothic Era‚ such as descriptions of gloomy settings and the use of supernatural events‚ (Marinaro n.p.). in addition to using the social conventions of London
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Aspects of Gothic Literature December 2012 Contents Gothic elements in some pre-eighteenth century literature……………………….page 3 The Gothic in Literature of the 20th/21st Century……………………………………...page 6 Transgression and Excess………………………………………………………………………..page 9 Structure of Gothic Literature………………………………………………………………..page 11 GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN SOME PRE-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto (1764) 21st century gothic style * Originate from a Germanic
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A passionate‚ self-willed and persistent character yet an in-valid. Vincent Freeman‚ a character in Andrew Niccols film “Gattaca” achieves more‚ whilst being imperfect whereas the perfect not so much. Gattaca focuses on the perfection and the high expectations but not so many achieve as much as Vincent does. In the film‚ Anton Freeman‚ his younger brother has several rounds with him in the game ‘Chicken’ and Anton would win all the time‚ a sudden change occurs where Vincent comes out on top. Throughout
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by Oscar Wilde and Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte have significant settings – “the height of the Decadent artistic movement of the late nineteenth century” (Shmoop Editorial Team‚ 2008) and “in the late 1700s and early 1800s” (The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc.‚ 11). This essay will analyze how the setting of Wuthering Heights influences lives of female characters and the setting of The Picture of Dorian Gray and its effects on characters’ thought. In Wuthering Heights‚ women seem to be the
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