Indicates that she is intelligent and possesses abilities beyond wifehood. Nora’s character becomes questionable when she starts breaking away from all the standards and expectations her husband and society had set up for her‚ this making her a morally ambiguous character. Early in the Helmers’ marriage‚ Torvalds got sick from overwork. Doctors prescribed a trip south to warmer climates as the only way to save him. At the time‚ the Helmers didn’t have the money for such a trip. To save Torvalds’s
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Morally Ambiguous Characters What does it mean to be morally ambiguous? The characters created by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Francis Bret Harte are divided between being purely good or purely evil. The environments that the characters live in are judgmental and hypocritical. While being isolated from society‚ they also deal with struggling to disassociate themselves from their pasts. The Scarlet Letter and “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” characters Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and John Oakhurst illustrate
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melodrama apart from most in its genre. These themes are best expressed in the interactions of the three main characters: Victor Laszlo‚ a heroic political leader; Ilsa Lund‚ an enigmatic femme fatale; and Richard (Rick) Blaine‚ a seemingly morally ambiguous night club owner. An unusual love triangle forms with the two men’s mutual love for the intermediary woman. Unlike the archetypal romantic triangle which includes the betrayed husband and the victorious lover‚ this situation results in unhappiness
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people that I have ever known.” Speaking of characterization‚ Fitzgerald writes masterfully to create morally ambiguous characters which have a huge impact on the story. Although George Wilson was morally ambiguous‚ Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are examples of characters with more impact on the story which are also morally ambiguous. Daisy Buchanan is a major example of a morally ambiguous character in the Great Gatsby. Daisy is introduced to the reader as Nick’s cousin who lives in East Egg
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The Brave New World Writing Prompt: Morally ambiguous characters -- characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good -- are at the heart of many works of literature. Brave New World is a book in which several morally ambiguous characters play a pivotal role. Eventually‚ you will write an essay (for now‚ a detailed outline) in which you explain how one character from this novel can be viewed as morally ambiguous and why his or her moral ambiguity is
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way. He creates actors‚ Mr. Zuss and Nickles‚ to play the roles of God and Satan‚ but does not create their personalities to be as black and white as they are in the bible. The readers struggle to define if Nickles is good or evil‚ creating a morally ambiguous character in the play. This decision is pivotal in the play because it allows Nickles to bear qualities that make him seem more real and human to the readers. His ability to empathize yet still laugh in the face of another’s suffering adds another
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Morally Ambiguous Character in Lord of the Flies 1. What does the character do‚ say‚ or think that can be classified as morally wrong? • As the tribes begin to split‚ Ralph begins to obsess over ‘popularity’ between him and Jack. He begins to bully Piggy in-order to gain favor from the other boys. Ralph begin to fall into the savage ways as the other boys have‚ he even went as far as to participate in the murder of Simon. 2. What does the character do‚ say‚ or think that can be classified
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Victorino Mapa High School Quiapo‚ Manila The Quiet American By: Graham Greene Danielle May P. Basilio IV-4 Mrs.Ballinan I. About the Author Graham Greene was born in 1904 and educated at Berhamsted School‚ where his father was the headmaster. On coming down from Balliol College‚ Oxford‚ where he published the book of verse‚ he worked for 4 years as a sub-editor on The Times. He established his reputation with his fourth novel‚ Stamboul Train‚ which he classed as an ‘entertainment’
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lives‚ they learn about good and bad‚ evilness and benevolence. Once learning about this they are able to decide who they are and who they want to be. Are they purely evil or purely good? Or both? In the novel Frankenstein‚ Mary Shelley uses the morally ambiguous character of the creature to convey how isolation and society’s expectations towards appearance can lead to the desire for revenge. Additionally‚ the creature demonstrates that when revenge consumes an individual it can lead to tragic consequences
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The Quiet American: Choose a novel which explores in an effective way a theme which is important to you. A novel of which explores a certain theme‚ the abusive corruption of American power is Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American”. Greene’s novel is set in the French colony‚ Vietnam‚ which is soon to be lost to the Communists. His narration and description of characters such as Alden Pyle the titular “Quiet American” of whom is proud to be American and is working for the Economic Aid Mission of which
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