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This paper analyzes Shumann's work, "Carnaval". The author uses modulation analysis, chordal analysis as well as historical biography of Schumann's life to examine this piece of music. Charts are included.

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"Florestan and Eusebius were the two alter ego personalities that Schumann created in Carnaval. In the two pieces, "Eusebius" and "Florestan," Schumann's use of harmony shows true instability in each personality. Each represented a different aspect of Schumann's own personality and took on a character of its own, both in Schumann's mind as well as in his music. In the two selections from Carnaval, Schumann uses harmonies and tempos to depict the two personalities. This study will serve to show the contrasting features of each alter ego through an examination in harmony and tempo. This study will look into the effectiveness of the chordal structure and tempo changes and how they represent each alter ego personality."

Tags:alter, ego15, music

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In this paper, an analysis of Chuck Palahniuk's messianic character is represented in the dual personality of Jack and his alter ego, Tyler Burden. By realizing the tendency toward a messianic urge in the growing disgust of Jack as victim of American consumer culture and corruption; Tyler Burden becomes his alter ego seeking to destroy American culture though the example of Christ's crucifixion. The archetype of the messianic figure is ever present in this novel with Tyler's desire to cleanse humanity of corruption and sin through fight club's anarchist terrorism.

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Analyzing Apostolic Fiction in the Messianic Characterizations of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club This study will analyze the role of messianic characterization in the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. The main character, Jack, is a messianic figure that is founded through a split ego personality, which provides him the necessary invention and leadership of Tyler Burden to invent fight club. However, the messianic overtones of Fight Club revolve around his desire to thwart the materialism of American society, which acts as a recruiting ground for various apostolic followers in the club. In essence, Palahniuk creates the Jack/Tyler personality as a messianic

Tags:fight, club, palahniuk

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This paper explains that, although "The Glass Menagerie" centers its attention on Tom, another character, Laura Wingfield, Tom's sister, emerges as a powerful individual in the story. The author points out that establishing Laura's character takes more than physically describing her deficiencies, such as her being crippled. Laura is also characterized as a woman who has lost all hope of attaining a wonderful life in being a wife and mother. The paper relates that author Williams achieves self-actualization through Laura's character in the same way that Tom and Laura finally free themselves from their emotional burdens in the play, "The Glass Menagerie".

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"Laura's low regard for herself is not only developed within her but also by the people who are with her, especially Amanda, her mother, and Tom. This observation is expressed among critics who have illustrated Laura's character as "symbolic", i.e., laden with hidden meanings meaningful only to Williams. Indeed, she is identified as the character who is "burdened by self-consciousness", experiences a "sense of worthlessness", and "yearning for " ideal or mystical beauty and spiritual or romantic love" absolute emotional and artistic fulfillment". The third symbolic description of Laura, which pertains to her inherent likeness for "mystical beauty" is symbolically represented by her fascination of her glass collection, considering them as objects that compensate for her imperfection."

Tags:glass, crippled, self-actualization, emotion, burden

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"James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote his first novel, Go Tell It
On the Mountain, when he was only 29 years old. This research is an analysis of John, who is Baldwin's alter ego in this autobiographical work. By exploring the character of John, concentrating on his relationship to his father, it is possible to see how the author grew up in Harlem, and how he gained his maturity.

"Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father" (11). A good part of John's persona in the early section of the novel is his coming to grips with his father's religious beliefs. Since John is a surrogate for the actual Baldwin, it is not difficult to see in the young boy the growing intellectuals rejection of the church's beliefs, and how this affects the rapport with his father."

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The paper examines how in the movie "Batman" there is the portrayal of the split self in both the protagonist, Batman, and the antagonist, the Joker. The paper shows how the alter ego of Batman is disguised and hides the personal self, as a method of protection. The paper also highlights how, although Batman maintains a sense of connectedness to the world, he still cannot live a normal life as the persona of Bruce Wayne.

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"As portrayed in the movie Batman (1989), Bruce Wayne's psychological dramatic experience of witnessing the death of his parents as a child causes a split between his alter ego, his major identity as a hero, and his real persona of Bruce Wayne that is below the surface of his masked hero identity. Even though he has become intimate with Vicki, he can't bear to share this pain with her or anyone else. In the book Heroes and Villains, Mike Alsford points out that "in order for Batman to survive, he must keep his distance from ordinary people"(137). This distancing can be seen in Batman's psychological cathartic expression when on the night after he has sex with Vicki, he memorializes the death of his father and mother by laying two long-stemmed roses in the alleyway where they were both murdered."

Tags:alter, ego, persona, Joker, super-hero, feelings, ideals

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This paper relates that, in David Fincher's film "Fight Club", the protagonist is the "Narrator", a contemporary "everyman" who exhibits symptoms of urban loneliness and existential angst in a materialistic and meaningless society. The author relates that the film descends into violence and brutality as the character Tyler Durden, head of the "Fight Club", feels more alive fighting other males who also feel emasculated by contemporary culture. The author believes that Durden appears to be the alter-ego of the Narrator, someone who feels genuinely and has abandoned the superficial and materialistic pursuits of contemporary society and culture. The paper expresses that the filmmaker is attempting to provide a warning to viewers in contemporary society that if people do not redefine their identity through something more meaningful than materialism or macho notions of masculinity, society will erupt into chaos and violence.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
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Conclusion

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"The inability to define identity or connect with spirituality leads the members of the "Fight Club" to beat each other, engage in random acts of violence and destruction, and to ultimately plan for major destruction of society. These men have lost hope in contemporary society and its values to provide them with meaning or identity. Instead, they have become unable to feel or express spirituality because of living in a world where who you are is often defined by what you own or how much money you make. As Durden explains at one point, "You're not your job."

Tags:everyman, loneliness, materialistic, violence, alter-ego

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This paper explains that James Lasdun is one writer who seems fascinated with the idea of repression; many of the stories in his book "Besieged" deal with the subject of repression. The author points out that the story, "Ate/Menos or the Miracle", shows how repression can be a means of finding freedom from controls. The paper concludes that Lasdun seems to be suggesting that the ego is a necessary means of control and that, when the man gains freedom through his alter ego, he actually loses all freedom because he is no longer in control of himself.

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"In "Ate/Menos or The Miracle" the main character finds himself mistaken for another man by an older woman. He chooses to make use of the mistaken identity and assumes the identity of the other man for his own selfish reasons. Essentially, assuming the identity of the other man allows him to fulfill his basic wants and desires and sleep with the woman. It is not coincidence that Lasdun chooses an older woman for the story, since sexual repression is often regarded as being related to an individual's parents. As one source notes, "Freud believes that psychopathological symptoms often result from repressed sexual and aggressive feelings about one's parents". In choosing to sleep with the woman, the woman actually becomes a replacement mother figure for the man. The desire to sleep with her combines with seeing her as a mother figure. This results in the inner conflict, where the man's instincts are harming the ego. The harmful impulse that occurs is the man's desire to sleep with his mother. Since this impulse is harmful to his ego, it becomes repressed so that the man does not allow it to enter consciousness."

Tags:character, freedom, control, ego, alter

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This literary study examines the role of Bertha Mason as the alter-ego of Jane Eyre. While Bertha represents the maddened and insane Victorian wife, bound to the household by Rochester; Jane seeks a far more equal feminist standing her relationship with Rochester. When she finally marries Rochester at the end of the novel, she has done with a feminist dignity, which contrasts the role that Bertha enacted as a prisoner in the attic. This why Bertha represents an alter-ego to Jane in the characterization brought forth by Charlotte Bronte.

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"This literary study will analyze the character Bertha Mason in 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte. In many ways, Bertha is the alter ego of Jane Eyre, as she clearly represents the Victorian insanity and delusional state, which opposes Jane's feminist integrity and sober mannerisms. By analyzing these behaviors, one can realize how Bronte brings forth this contrast of characterization through a psychological ego-based criterion. In essence, Bertha Mason, Rochester's clandestine wife, is the alter-ego of Jane's sober and modest feminist behaviors within the novel. The basis for Bertha as the alter-ego to Jane is founded through the principle of Victorian patriarchal domestic norms."

Tags:gender, victorian, literature

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This paper describes the relationship between Dorothy Wordsworth and her famous brother William. It shows how Dorothy played the woman's role of nurturing and supporting the poetic genius of her brother with whom she shared a mutually intimate and dependent relationship. It outlines her entire life from being orphaned to debilitating senility and includes her friendship with Coleridge. Critical analysis from numerous scholarly sources is included to reveal the extent to which Dorothy acted as William's poetic and spiritual inspiration and alter ego.

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"William Wordsworth was the famous Romantic poet. His sister Dorothy was his quiet strength, support and inspiration. Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) devoted her life to her brother (1770-1850). Intimate friends and close confidants, they shared an immense mutual dependence and were of extreme significance and value to each other. As William put it in his poem, "The Recluse," as quoted in the title above, brother and sister journeyed not only to Grasmere, but through all of life, "side by side," blown by the winds of life, "like two birds, companions in mid-air,/Parted and reunited by the blast (Clark 28)."

Tags:sister, william, women, coleridge, genius

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The essay discusses Lord Goring who is socially "idle", yet ideal in terms of philosophy. Moreover, it describes Goring as the most interesting and outstanding persona in the play, his ambivalent behavior, and the change he goes through during the play, and why he could be considered Wilde's alter ego. The paper ends raising the question of whether or not Wilde has lost grip on this character. Did Wilde manipulate Goring's behavior in order to obtain the desired ending of the play?

Tags:age, an, character, chevely, chiltern, dandyism, delineation, husband, ideal, miss, morality, oscar, robert, victorian, wilde