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In this article, the writer provides a comparison and contrast of the themes and characterizations of 'Tent Worms' by Tennessee Williams and 'We are Night Time Travelers' by Ethan Canin.

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"'Tent Worms' and 'We Are Nighttime Travelers' share a commonality of narrative design. Brief stories they encapsulate a lifetime of experience and emotion or more exactly a years-long landscape of unfelt or unexpressed emotion. 'Tent Worms' tells the story from the viewpoint of the aging and disappointed wife while 'We Are Nighttime Travelers' does so from the viewpoint of the aging and disappointed husband. Both stories have a bleak and gray outlook to them and although the seasonal setting differs from story to story winter and mostly night in ..."

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This paper explores Milton?s use of flattery and condemnation and the role they play in the downfall of Adam and Eve and their subsequent decision to take responsibility for eating the forbidden fruit in his novel Paradise Lost. It also explores his characterization of Adam and Eve and how rich language and metaphor result in a stunning piece of work.

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"Milton's Paradise Lost is studded with characters ranging from the devious Satan through to the humanistic, yet wise Eve. Given such a wide breadth of not only characters, but also location, Milton varies his language depending on cast, setting and poetic intention. This is evident when examining the use of flattery and condemnation both of which play large roles in the downfall of Adam and Eve and in their decision to take responsibility for the eating the forbidden fruit."

Tags:adam, condemnation, eve, flattery, milton, rib, snake, temptation

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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

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This essay analyzes two characters in the play, "An Inspector Calls." Through this comparison of the father, Mr. Birling and his daughter, Sheila Birling, the essay explores the process of social responsibility, and the struggle involved in learning how to see oneself in relation to others. Priestley's play is a criticism of Edwardian values, and it questions the role of the individual in society. The two characters considered in this essay are compared as a way to reveal the conflict in this perspective, and dramatizes the ways people affect the lives of others.

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In this article, the writer looks at 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood. The writer discusses that Offred's characterization focuses more on her interior self than on externals of speech and action.

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"All of the characters in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale are living in an extremely repressive society. The Republic of Gilead is a totalitarian state based on an extreme form of fundamentalist Christianity. It sees itself as dedicated to saving the human race from extinction and from sin and, charged with these massive responsibilities, it ruthlessly suppresses any opposition. As the Commander puts it, "You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs." In this society, the free ..."

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In this article, the writer examines the concepts of irony and characterization in Flannery O'Connor's work "A Good Man is Hard to Find." The writer notes that through the characters of The Misfit and the grandmother, O'Connor demonstrates how different personalities can be delicate in their own way. Tee writer relates that, through a comical and upsetting setting, one sees the importance of characterization in a story; one also sees how irony can be a used a comic relief in telling a horrifying story. The writer concludes that by allowing the two difficult characters to interact with each other in this story, we see a little bit of ourselves and we realize the fragile state of our existence.

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"Characterization is another literary technique O'Connor employs in "A Good Man is Hard to Find." The primary characters in this story are the grandmother and The Misfit and the fact that they encounter one another is another blend of the comical and the ironic. However, the dramatic contrast between the two characters is the center of attention. Both characters are grotesque. The grandmother is grotesque because she is a good person only on the surface. We know that she is annoying and overbearing. Because she had to have her way, bring the cat, and show the children the house with the secret panel, the family pays the ultimate price. We can see the grotesque nature of The Misfit because he is a cold-blooded criminal, but it is important to recognize how his character acts as a foil to the grandmother. It is interesting that these two seemingly different individuals almost make a connection by the end of the story. However, it is because of their personalities that they do not connect - she being the domineering type that only wants to talk and he being the psychotic refusing to listen."

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This paper examines how Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find", set in the rural South, is character-driven. It looks at how she effectively uses her characters to symbolize truth and the human problem, which is universal. In particular, it shows how, through the characterization of the Grandmother, she gives her work vitality, allowing the work to take on a life of its own. It also explores how O'Connor uses the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," to further her message that society is headed in the wrong direction by using the grandmother's characterization to get the message across and accomplish her goal.

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"O'Connor uses characterization to make the reader not only see and hear the grandmother, but to look into the grandmother's empty life. By the middle of the story, readers feel pity for the grandmother. She talks and talks, yet says nothing at all. Family is all around her, yet she does not connect with them. She is lonely and really has no one. She mumbles through life, with no mention of dreams for tomorrow, only that things are terrible today. She has no real purpose in life and there are no signs of any spirituality. She only thinks longingly of times and places that are no longer a part of this world. In essence, the grandmother is shallow."

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The paper provides a discussion of the use and effect of characterization in Chinua Achebe's novel, "Things Fall Apart." The paper explains how the author creates round and dynamic characters to support his themes.

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"In "Things Fall Apart" Chinua Achebe creates round dynamic characters in order to support the major themes and philosophical goals of the novel. Even though the characters exist in a world far removed from Achebe's intended audience, he has created them such that any audience can read the characters, understand their motivations and ultimately relate to them. This works especially well with the major characters that drive the story as they seem real to us and make real human mistakes."

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This essay discusses how the characterizations of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are enhanced by contrast in the scenes that precede and follow the murder of Duncan in Act 11. Macbeth undergoes a frightening change in his fortune -- a change for which he himself bears at least a partial responsibility. Lady Macbeth is directly involved in this transition.

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This paper examines how Patricia Hightsmith's characters, as interpreted by Alfred Hitchcock on the screen, are interpreted from a moral point of view. The author analyzes how Hitchcock incorporated Highsmith's literary technique to develop these characterizations in the film.

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"Riding on a train is, in life as well as in film, a curious situation. It draws together strangers of apparently different backgrounds. It is a situation of forward motion, a fact conveyed by the film s use of train sounds, from the beginning shriek of a train whistle (paralleling the shriek of a murdered victim) and also through such sounds as the churning engine. The sight of the wheels pulsating forward on the tracks also suggests such propelled, forward motion. Yet a train is not only a representation of forward motion, for tracks cross, the train must stop at certain points, and in a similar way individual s lives cross and intersect."

Tags:Hitchcock, Highsmith, amorality, literary, artifice, homoeroticism, film, tom, ripley