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    Listening piece commentary My listening audience piece was inspired by the old man in Poe’s Tell Tale Heart‚ thought evil by the protagonist‚ but given no voice to express himself. My protagonist is an elderly character with a dark side‚ similar to Angela Carter’s in The Werewolf. To subtly reveal this hidden personality I adopted the style of Alan Bennett’s monologue Playing Sandwiches where he gradually builds suspicion of the speaker‚ ultimately revealing the horrible truth.

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    The movie "A Bronx Tale" is obviously set in the Bronx and sets a young man Calogero Anello‚ "C" against the trials and tribulations of growing up incorruptible‚ in a neighborhood of mob crime and wayward minors. The movie holds characters that fit delinquency terms such as chronic offenders‚ and characters that fit theories such as the choice theory. Calogero at the end of the movie seems to have an identity crisis as mentioned by Erikson in his theory. Also characters show signs of being latent

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    In Tales of Wonder from Many Lands there are many foolish characters that are deficient in judgment‚ good sense‚ or intelligence. How can the foolish characters in Tales of Wonder from Many Lands be classified? The foolish characters in this text can be classified according to their lack of knowledge or lack of ability to use knowledge to good effect. Three Groups of foolish characters includes characters who act possessive‚ gullible and short sighted. The first group of foolish characters in Tales

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    Character Analysis on “Connie” in “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?” “Where are you going‚ Where have you been” is a famous story that was written by Joyce Carol Oates. In this story‚ Connie is fifteen years old girl and the main character. She seems to have always lived in her sister’s shadow‚ June‚ who was apparently better all-around. Connie seems to be the more attractive of the two due to which she felt that her attractive personality would succumb to pleasure in the arms of a random

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    Grendel character analysis Terrorizing a town for 12 years Grendel kills countless men and woman in the epic of Beowulf. Banished to an underwater dwelling when descendants of Cain were banished and killed‚ many warriors faced him but few survived. Many have herd of Grendel and his tale of horror‚ but who is Grendel? Grendel is seen by other people in Beowulf as a monster and a fiend even before his name is mentioned the narrator refers to him as a “powerful monster‚ living down in the darkness”

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    Perfect Pilgrimage: (A Discussion of Three Modern-Day Characters That Would Join The Canterbury Tales) Geoffrey Chaucer has been known as the father of English poetry since the 1300’s. His works have been considered the greatest alongside Shakespeare. In his work‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ He writes about a pilgrimage of many different people in England. Each of those characters introduces themselves‚ then tells a tale that relates in some way to their introduction. Chaucer was known to be a controversial

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    Many have said in ‘The Odyssey’ that they respected Odysseus. He is respected by men‚ for his journeys and telltale battles. Take‚ for example‚ what Alcinous said after Odysseus had beautifully told his tale and many woes; "but you have a grace of words and a noble mind within‚ and you told your tale as skillfully as if you were a bard". Then‚ right before Alcinous spoke‚ Homer shows us Odysseus is respected by the following sentence; "And this he ended and all were hushed to silence‚ held by the

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    able to create authentic characters whose traits and appearances portrayed more of life’s aspects than ever before. From a piece of his unfinished work‚ The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue‚ he molds for the reader a figure of significant importance during an age ruled by Christianity. The religious devotion expected of a church official and temptations of a secular life meld to create the Prioress. As second in command at the Westminster Abbey‚ the Prioress’ character would naturally create a

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    Likhita Kalla One might define a monk as a member of a religious community of men who typically live under vows of poverty‚ chastity‚ and obedience. However‚ Geoffrey Chaucer‚ author of the unfinished masterpiece named Canterbury Tales‚ portrays a monk whose attitude‚ appearance and lifestyle contrasts greatly with the characteristics of a typical monk. Chaucer accomplishes this portrayal of a bizarre monk by incorporating the use of satire and irony in various ways throughout his narration. But

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    people themselves want to see and experience. This aspect of everyday human life is shown in The Knight’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories. The stories all come together to create a frame story about a group of people taking a pilgrimage. During the pilgrimage they tell each other stories to pass time. The Knight’s Tale is one of the tales. The tale is about a Duke named Theseus who finds some grieving widows on his way home to Athens. When he sees the women

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