from the Bridge’‚ as a character who represents the law‚ but more importantly as a prophet and narrator. Alfieri’s role as a lawyer connects to the events leading to the destruction of Eddie Carbone‚ We also trust a lawyer to be a good judge of character and rational‚ because he is professionally detached. Although his profession is an important addition to his character‚ his role as prophet and narrator trumps his profession. Miller uses Alfieri as a chorus‚ much similar to those of a greek tragedy
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these characteristics make him a reliable source and a good narrator‚ Chief’s schizophrenic episodes and paranoid nature create skewed views of reality‚ with very little distinction as to what is a literary device‚ or what is literally a hallucination. If the narration were given through a more rational character‚ such as McMurphy‚ the differentiation between delusion and actuality would have been more cogent. Using Chief Bromden as a narrator restricts the reader’s perception of the novel‚ despite
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contrast the narrators in Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein‚ the narrative methods‚ and the effects of these different ways of telling a story in Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein. Ravee Chen S2 English H Dr.Freisen 8 April 2010 Word count: 1491 Why do authors use different types of narrators? Jonathan Swift and Mary Shelly have both chosen a first-person narrator in their novels Gulliver’s Travels and Frankenstein. In Gulliver’s Travels the narrator is Gulliver
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The narrators are victims of their obsessions‚ leading to an overruling of rationality and logic- a study of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat‚ by Edgar Allan Poe. “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat” are texts by Edgar Allan Poe showing the state of mind of a person who becomes corrupted from their obsessions. We see the changes in behaviour‚ like anxiety‚ that stem from their obsessions‚ causing the narrator to eventually self-destruct due to lack of rationality and logic. The critical
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"Piano and Drums" is a poem that accurately explores the trying conflict of merging a traditional culture with a new‚ modern civilisation. The author Gabriel Okara‚ who also doubles as the narrator in the poem‚ responds to the drums as his tribal heritage and the simplicity of youth‚ while he sees the piano as the foreign customs irrelevant to the black society‚ with the complexity of experience. Throughout "Piano and Drums"‚ Okara’s choice of diction is used to show his response to the two kinds
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During any war‚ many acts of brutality were committed by soldiers on both sides; and most people seem to realize this. Nevertheless‚ when we look at photographs of the dead women and children from any massacre‚ it seems impossible to understand how soldiers could participate in such an atrocity. However‚ in psychological views‚ we can easily explain their behavior by using conformity and obedience. Conformity within a group entails members changing their attitudes and beliefs because of real or
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The first of two plays that has been considered for selection in upcoming International Theatre for Young People’s Festival soon to be held in Vancouver‚ Canada is "Blackrock" by the late Nick Enright. The plays must represent the values‚ attitudes and beliefs of today’s Australian Youth Culture. "Blackrock" explores the strength of mateship‚ the importance of image and the dangers of peer pressure‚ parties and underage drinking. The second play is the popular "Blurred" by the playwright Stephen
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Can a work of art have value regardless of who creates it? Can‚ and should‚ we look past the character of the artist - however immoral we consider them to be - and simply experience and esteem the work itself? Art is such a simple word‚ consisting of just three letters‚ and yet it takes ceaseless flows of discussions‚ arguments‚ debates and theories just on the very definition of it. So what is just so important about this creative field? We have to acknowledge that
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A narrator‚ by definition‚ is how an author chooses to portray information to readers in their work. An author’s choice‚ in how to tell a story is ideal to the effect it has on readers. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic The Great Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway tells the entire story as a first-person‚ peripheral narrator. Fitzgerald purposefully chooses Nick as a partially removed character‚ with very few emotions and personal opinions. By doing so‚ readers experience the same ambiguity of other character’s
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this lofty goal by participating in organized crime‚ including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. Throughout the entire novel it is clearly portrayed that almost all the characters in the society were corrupt even Nick Carraway is a corrupt
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