Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House is a collection of short stories that is rich in symbols and similes. Descriptions like "claw hand"‚ "flyaway manner" and "hair bound grotesquely like white-fingered wings" are found abundantly in the writer’s novel. The Oxford English Dictionary defines symbols as‚ "something that stands for‚ represents‚ or denotes something else (not by exact resemblance‚ but by vague suggestion‚ or by some accidental or conventional relation)" (reference). Yet‚ there
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a. King Marsiliun is the antagonist of this epic. He is the last king that Charlemagne has to conquer to acquire Spain. Undoubtedly‚ King Marsiliun’s small‚ pagan army could not withstand a war from Charlemagne’s vast and skilled militia‚ so he devised a plan to trick and weaken Charlemagne so Marsiliun and his army could victoriously attack them. Marsiliun sent his pagan servants into Charles’ domain to request that Charles return back to Aix where they would meet‚ and Marsiliun and his followers
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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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Protagonist Definition – protagonist‚ the main character in a story or play. A protagonist is the character that the story is narrated by‚ and whose conflicts create the plot. Sometimes the protagonist can be referred to as the hero of a story or play. Batman‚ in the Batman movies‚ is the protagonist. He is the hero in the movie and solves the conflicts. Other examples of protagonist include Napoleon‚ in the story Animal Farm; Goodman Brown‚ in the short story “Young Goodman Brown”. These characters
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When I first started into my research‚ it seemed that every online RLS community‚ or article I read online‚ talked about the approach that scientists were taking due to the connection they’ve drawn between dopamine levels and RLS. Personally‚ I think they’re looking in the wrong direction. The direction they should be looking at is the relationship between inflammation and RLS. Dopamine may play a part in the long run‚ but it is a secondary concern. If you deal with the inflammation‚ you will
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Throughout the short story “The Swimmer”‚ the author makes it sound as if the main character Neddy Merrill is swimming home through pools. But‚ these pools are metaphors for different chapters of his life. In the beginning Neddy is portrayed as youthful and energetic‚ he is able to dive into the pool and he can lift himself out of the pool effortlessly. As the story goes on as Neddy goes through more pools we see that he’s getting older‚ he uses the ladder to get out of the pool and he is cold
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story of two characters that learn that being different is a good thing to be. In the book‚ both characters find out if they learn how to work with each other that make adventures. The book‚ Freak the Mighty is by Rodman Philbrick. In this book‚ it tells a story about Max who has special needs and Kevin who has a medical disease that make him unable to walk right. Max and Kevin learn the benefits of each other’s mind. As in the book‚ Max learns with Kevin’s help that he can read and write. Kevin
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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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story. Some people may say that the conspirators were horrible or that Caesar shouldn’t have died‚ but some other people think the opposite. In my opinion I believe that for the most part this is Brutus’ story‚ and that Brutus is the protagonist and Cassius is the antagonist of the story. The name Julius Caesar was an interesting choice for the play. Yes he was the leader of Rome and yes it was tragic when he was killed‚ but I feel this story is more centered on Brutus. Julius Caesar dies in the second
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as humans since the Rwandan genocide is complex! Here enters the traumatic reliving of a yet to be easily erased memories of one woman’s story of surviving the Holocaust as vividly portrayed Illibagiza-herself a direct victim-in her book‚ “Left to Tell.” She exhibited how far reaching and catastrophic religious and ethnic ideas could devastate a once peaceful and thriving country. Imagine a country where everybody was living in close-knit communities later to be affected with the plague of ethnic
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