Shakespeare‚ he wrote exquisite plays‚ including Macbeth written in 1606. Macbeth was written as a fable‚ he often wrote plays for King James I‚ the book however is portrayed as suspenseful and very solemn. The main characters would be Macbeth the protagonist and the witches as antagonist. Macbeth is portrayed as gullible because he believes everything the witches say about his destiny as king and as ambitious because he has just learned he is going to be king. The witches‚ however are portrayed to
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narration progresses always through psychological motivation‚ i.e. by the will of a human character and its struggle with obstacles towards a defined goal. In Casablanca‚ Richard “Rick” Blaine‚ the owner of Rick’s Café Americain and the film’s protagonist struggles to fight off past memories and lives day in and day out as a jaded bar owner. Also Ilsa Lund a devoted wife to Laszlo and former lover of Rick. In Paris‚ Ilsa had fallen
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The story of Frankenstein is one of great tragedy and great human sacrificing. Victor Frankenstein is the main character within this great novel‚ but it is hard to call Victor the protagonist within the story because of all of his terrible flaws. Likewise it is difficult to call the creature that Victor Frankenstein creates the antagonist. However‚ the story of Frankenstein is one of a man trying to create life out of death. Victor Frankenstein is a crazed scientist who for all intents and purposes
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The case study above focused on two American television shows produced in Hollywood‚ but the female detective as protagonist seems to be a popular trend across most of the western world. Currently‚ Scandinavia and the United Kingdom has popular drama series with female protagonists‚ many of them highly regarded by national and international critics alike. In America‚ there are also other shows to support this current trend of female detectives. Some of them follow the more supernatural strand like
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The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Protagonist: The Protagonist in the Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne. Hester Prynne is a tall elegant‚ beautiful women. She has dark abundant hair and according to Nathaniel Hawthorne deep dark eyes. Hester Prynne could leave people awestruck. She was such a nice‚ kind‚ and generous woman. She was also the greatest seamstress to most. Hester Prynne is the main focus of our story The Scarlet Letter. (65) Antagonist: The antagonist in the story is Dr. Roger Chillingworth
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Atticus as a Protagonist Granted. It is an interesting word‚ Granted means to “To accept without question or objection; assume.” You never know when the world is going to take people or change them for good. To Kill a Mockingbird shows this exactly‚ People killed‚ characters changed‚ and people lying. Expect the unexpected. To begin with‚ Robert Anton Wilson once said‚ “There is absolutely nothing in this world that can be taken for granted.” This is exactly what the novel is about. Tom Robinson
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Reality Verses Once Upon A Time: Female Protagonists in Modern Literature As little girls get tucked into their beds at night all over the world moms and dads read to their daughters. These bedtime stories serve as some of the first forms of information that girls use to form a view of what they can be when they grow older. As these girls turn into young women they have the choice to choose what books they read and therefore‚ what characters that they will admire. It then falls into the hands
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5 ways to use minor characters to add depth and complexity to your protagonist 1. You can use different characters to bring out aspects of the protagonist you want to emphasize to the reader. Minor characters who have been involved with the protagonist for a long time are carriers of their own history with and memories of the protagonist. Minor characters can reference the past in handy ways that serve the development of the story. They can make observations about the protagonist’s character or
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world of literature‚ yet it most certainly is. This is because many readers and critics of this play argue that Willy Loman is not the protagonist of the play. This is because they picture the protagonist as someone loved by all in the text‚ save the antagonist. Yet this text varies from the accepted normalities of literature. In Arthur Miller’s text‚ the protagonist is not a shining hero‚ yet he is still loved by his family. This shows that he is not a bad person all the way through. For‚ if he was
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written by Liam O`Flaherty. He has not named the protagonist in the story. He has done this so the reader can realize how the war affected everyone‚ including those who were on opposite sides of the war. Before the story starts there is a brief description of the plot. Late at night‚ a lone IRA sniper waits atop a rooftop in the heart of Dublin‚ Ireland. It is June of 1922. The main character has been on the rooftop since morning. As the protagonist goes through dangerous obstacles‚ there is a theme
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