Dave Wrights Characterization Perrines Literature book states that there are 3 basic principles of characterization to make a character and story convincing It says the first trait is creating convincing character behavior The second would be detailing a characters words and activities spring from motivations readers can understand and believe Third principle being that the character must be plausible and life like These three beliefs make the characters and the story more believable Capturing
The Lady with the dog by Anton Chekhov describes the social responsibility that marriage held in the turn of the century Russia This emotional story brings to life the loveless marriages that many couples found themselves in as a result of arranged marriages Two married people find themselves without their significant other and they begin to fall in love This wonderful story is about two people who find their soul mate Marriage and love are the focal points of the story Also the ending is very
In the interesting dynamic story of Barn Burning by William Faulkner Sartoris finds himself between a rock and a hard place There seems to be a sense of moral code between the Snopes family It is a different sense of moral codeit is more of an utter loyalty to the family vs whats actually wrong and right Their whole family exhibits a sense of being on the outskirts of society and not really socially accepted is what I take from it William Faulkners characters in Barn Burning are possessed drive
Much Ado About Nothing boasts a wide range of variation among its character relationships and emphasizes the differences and similarities between types of love As a reader it is natural to filter the main differences out in ones brain and classify each characters relationships and feelings on certain levels Shakespeare develops definite pieces that register to the subconscious and help the reader combine personal experience opinion and description into a clear idea of each characters love and r
Shakespeares play The Tempest revolves around the theme of power A duke is usurped a conspiracy to kill a king is made and everyone seems to have a different notion of power But there is one belief they all agree on Calibans inferiority including Caliban himself While it is certain that Caliban has more to his character than what is superficially portrayed he is still considered the lowliest creature This is the manifestation of the social hierarchy that existed during the time this play was wr
Both Tylers The Accidental Tourist and Duffys Mean Time have a strong focus on love The Accidental Tourist is a novel about a mans journey to find himself after his marriage has fallen apart and Mean time is a collection of poems about Duffys past experiences presumably to do with specific topics like love amongst many others I have selected two of Duffys poems Mean Time and First Love to compare to two appropriate extracts from Tylers novel I consider these selected poems and extracts to be su
Characteristic Restrained Misery Characters often cannot express their interior self because of their social and cultural restriction In the two different stories Araby and The Red Convertibles the authors used a significant way to depict characters conflict between an individuals social and interior self James Joyce is the author of the short fiction Araby which is about an adult narrator a character of the story who was confused with his thoughts and dreams of his younger stage Louise Erdrich
The Importance of Color F Scott Fitzgeralds book the great Gatsby takes place in the fictional peninsulas of East Egg and West Egg just after World War I during the prohibition era The book is about the dreams of one man who is stuck in the past embodying the American dream and his eventual destruction because of the corruption of the American dream From both the side of this story there is an underlying theme of power gained from wealth and artificial social status All throughout the book the
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set in the 1690s revolves around the witchcraft hysteria and human vengeance that plague Salem and which split the town into those who use the trials for their own ends and those who desire the good of the society It is this paradox which we find to be a major theme of The Crucible good versus evil In order to keep the community together members of that community believe that they must in some sense tear it apart Miller relates the intense hysteria and vengeance
The Things They Carried a novel written by Tim OBrien raises the question of the extent of truthfulness of stories that are told from experience in which the novel is solely based on the accounts of war veterans and their lives in Vietnam The soldiers fighting in the war describe certain stories that have affected them the most and from that readers can interpret that the armed forces are able to capture the attention of their listeners through providing immense detail of the conditions adding