Assignment 1 Interpreting: The Story of an Hour After reading the Story of an Hour‚ I concluded that Louise Mallard is a sympathetic character. I am not sure sympathetic is the best word to describe her. Perhaps caring or considerate would be a more exact word. She is also a little self-centered. Her feeling may be unpredictable but they show signs of a caring and compassionate individual. Louise’s happiness does not come from Brently’s dead; her happiness comes from being separated from
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Mr. Birling is almost a stereotype/caricature of the capitalistic businessman its inherent callous heartlessness. Note references to capitalism (pg. 6‚ 7)‚ business (pg. 6 "hard headed businessman‚" 10 "mind his own business") and profit (pg. 14‚ 15). He is proud of his status and reminds other of it (pg. 8 "knighthood" p.10 "Bench")‚ especially when trying to put the Inspector in his place (p.16 "golf"). He is so uneasy about these matters that he is uneasy about Gerald marrying Sheila (pg.
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How Does J.B. Priestley Develop Sheila’s Character During The Course Of The Play Sheila Birling is the character that changes the most in J.B. Priestley’s play ’An Inspector Calls’. She is introduced as a childish young woman that is treated like an inoffensive girl‚ which is absent-minded about everything that is going on in her relationship with Gerald and in the unjust and partly cruel society she lives in. She changes completely when the Inspector arrives and reveals to them the dramatic
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Mathilde Loisel is not a sympathetic character in “The Necklace” because of her materialistic and selfish motives. She is not just poor financially but also in character. She is always dissatisfied with her life. Nice clothes‚ expensive jewelry‚ a beautiful house‚ more furniture and rich friends are the only things she loves in her life. Moreover‚ she is not a sympathetic character because she disrespects her loving husband. In spite of having a kind‚ generous‚ loyal and hard working husband she
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Macbeth Essay: Is Macbeth a sympathetic character? In Shakespeare’s screenplay‚ tragedies usually arouse feelings of pity and fear. Yet is the gradual breakdown of Macbeth enough for the audience to feel sympathetic for him? Macbeth is taken place in Scotland. It explores themes like power‚ desires‚ ambition and gender etc.. In the story‚ Macbeth is a general that‚ due to three witches’ prophecies‚ fell from a hero into the trap of dark desires for power. An interesting point to note is the relationship
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Which members of the Birling family change as a result? of the inspectors visit and which do not? An inspector calls was first written in 1945 by JB priestly. Although the play was written in 1945 it was set in 1912‚ just after the Second World War. When priestly felt little had changed since the turn of the century‚ where people were still poverty stricken‚ and treated harshly due to their status in society. Priestly wrote the play hoping for people to leave the values of the twentieth century
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Priestly uses Mrs. Birling’s character to represent snobby rich people of the era and makes use of language‚ form and structure to develop her character throughout the course of Act II. Mrs. Birling‚ right off the back‚ gives the audience an impression of ‘a classic snob’. She thinks she is morally and socially superior and tries to show this on several occasions. ‘I don’t suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-’‚ ‘As if a girl of that sort
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behavior that the reader is likely to find socially and morally unacceptable. Yet one might argue that Bigger merely responded to the conditions in which he lived and which shaped him. If one advocates such a response‚ Bigger might be viewed as a sympathetic character. My position‚ with respect to this dilemma‚ is that Bigger has a way to control his actions and the actions he chose come with major consequences. Although Bigger had to conceal his slave mentality‚ Bigger should have rebelled against the bad
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Explore how Priestly creates like or dislike of Mrs Birling ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a well-known play which was written by J.B. Priestly in 1945. However it was set in a Midland Industrial town in 1912. Priestley deliberately set his play in 1912 because the date represented an era when all was very different from the time he was writing. In 1912‚ rigid class and gender boundaries seemed to ensure that nothing would change. Yet by 1945‚ most of those class and gender divisions had been breached.
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Explain how the character of Sheila is changed by the Inspector’s visit When the Inspector calls at the Birling household‚ all the family are affected by the revelations that were brought to light – especially the daughter Sheila. As a ‘pretty’ daughter‚ in her ‘mid 20s’‚ Sheila pays attention to everything that her parents say and accepts it quite happily. Due to her comfortable upbringing‚ Sheila is unfortunately rather spoiled and appears at some points in the play to be very superficial. This
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