Through Lawrence's description of the Morel family, the reader is given a tour through the psychological evolution of the main character, Paul. ... The Oedipus complex is a complex when a man loves his mother, and hates his father because of his strong love of his mother. ... The Oedipus complex of mother towards son To be further, the Oedipus complex can be divided into two aspects on Sons and Lovers. One is concerned about the Oedipus complex of mother towards son; the other refers to the Oedipus complex of mother towards son. ... So, towards his wife, Morel is absence of softness and...

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This plot development is a staple in the tragic orientation of the play; but how can one explain the seemingly ambiguous qualities of Desdemona's character? ... This depression and the shock she experiences in the final scene surely influenced the outcome of her character. ... Desdemona also travels to Cyprus with Othello, her new husband, thus further cementing her status as a brave and courageous character as she left a safe place for one consumed by death and danger. ... Desdemona is not an ambiguous character, but she is a complex character. ... This person would be wrong, as Desd...

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Elliot allows the reader to understand what is going within the character's thoughts through the use of third person omniscient, which also helps the reader understand why the couple seem to have many matrimonial issues. ... This further worsens the problems between the couple when Lydgate thinks he has calmed Rosamond with his "self blame " but rises his peremptories again when Rosamond asks him to send the men away with the inventory, which makes Rosamond think "that if she had known how Lydgate would behave, she would have never married him. " These contrasting thoughts, given through ...

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Kenneth Jones Professor Bailey English 2322 May 28, 2000 A Look at Shakespeare's Edmund In King Lear, the villainous but intelligent Edmund, with more than a brief examination into his character, has understandable motivations outside of the base purposes with which he might at first be credited. Edmund is a character worthy of study, as he seems to be the most socially complex character of the play. ... With the set of characters that are doing the decision-making in the play, it is no wonder that Edmund did not wish to trust his fate to Lear, Goneril, Reagan, their husb...

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Amanda and Jim Comparison Two of the main characters in Tennessee Williams's Glass Menagerie are Jim O'Connor and Amanda Wingfield. ... Jim is able to spot that Laura has an inferiority complex. ... These two characters of Amanda and Jim in the Glass Menagerie are the two main players in the play. ... Overall, Jim O'Connor and Amanda Wingfield are alike in many ways and are two of the main characters in the play....

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He does not introduce complex characters, which would lead themselves to be analyzed for the understanding of his points. Instead, simple characters are used to make Wilder's points clear and concrete. ... In the play, several of the characters are dead and are reflecting back on their lives from a different point of view. ...

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Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story be...

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Although the plots were complex and the characters very hard to keep straight, each play focused on a certain themes. ... Pinchwife isn't especially bright, but in his jealousy, he becomes a dangerous character. ... The "Conscious Lovers" (1722), contains a similar deception when two characters pretend to be judges, confusing Cimberton and Mrs. ... Bevil Jr. himself, the play's main and most virtuous character, is exempted from taking part in the plot, although he invented it. When important, upper-class characters do attempt to conceal the truth, they do it out of regard for eac...

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The statement is the narrator's, and that part of the sentence most indicting--the part between the dashes--is spoken suggestively, with a sly wink and a nudge of the elbow, in an attempt to disparage Homer's character. ... "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves as we gossip about his characters in a way that we usually reserve for neighbors--failing to truly understand them, revealing only our own phobias and fascinations. ... Perhaps we should approach "A Rose for Emily" by refusing to d...

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Unlike Lucentio though, Hortensio grows in his character throughout the play. ... She is a very complex character and it is definite that Shakespeare intended her to be this way. ... The complexity of her character is demonstrated in many ways throughout the play. ... Katherine was indeed a great source of energy in the play and she was also the play's most complex character. ... Petruchio, Katherine's tamer, is also a very complicated character. ...

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In the program Sex in the City the main character Sarah lied to her boyfriend about spending time with another man Rob. ... Similarly to Sex in the City when Sarah's boyfriend Tommy finds out she's been cheating on him with Rob he goes to her apartment complex and puts sugar in her gas tank. ...

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While the male characters within the story remain flat and generally unimportant. ... The males are nearly unidentifiable, showing an absence of importance amongst the male characters. ... Cinderella's godmother is another matriarchal character, that determines Cinderella's fate. ... The importance of female characters within this story, differs from many fairytales. ... It is not simply a story about a girl being saved by a valiant prince, but how women are complex and different characters, and how they all work in conjunction with each other. ...

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The personal experiences of a real person are always better than those of a character in a novel because the situations are real, and therefore more reliable. Throughout the article, Tadmor explains that the eighteenth century English family was characteristically nuclear, and non-complex. In the early modern period, it was uncharacteristic of an English family to be large and complex. ... Complex living arrangements did happen on occasion in eighteenth century England. ...

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Madame comes off similar to these characteristics but within the story she turns into a different character. ... "She lavished attention on her husband, spoiling and coddling him, and the charm of her person was so great that six years after their first meeting he loved her even more than in the early days". (1034-1035) She tricked him, she made him complexly comfortable so he wouldn't suspect a thing. ...

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And the bleeding eyeballs gushed and stained his beard, no sluggish oozing drops but black rain and bloody hail poured down. (467) If Sophocles" Oedipus Rex was written with a woman as the main character, it would drastically change, so much change in this complex a play wouldn't help it. ...

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Another key inference by Hemingway to the building of Harold Kreb's character during the war is one of the photographs discussed in the story's opening paragraphs that suggest an unsatisfactory experience with German girls. ... Here is a veteran, a possibly heartbroken young man, who keeps himself away from the complex world, stays on the porches, and simply watches girls on the street. ... On a superficial level, she seems to be just another girl attempting to pull him into a complex world; however, in her innocence she intends no such thing. ... Moreover, Krebs, who has yet to ex...

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Desdemona, of the Shakespearean play Othello, is a very complex character who takes on both roles. ... The majority of the characters in Othello are marked by their power and influence in their society. ... Iago is a character plagued with hate, every move that we see Iago make can be derived from a hatred of one person or another. ... The greatest difference amongst characters can be seen between Othello and Desdemona. ... The other characters in the play act on their emotions, which ultimately leads to trouble. ...

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Two characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- fell in love. ... He did not know that women are complex individuals who need to be treated as equals. ... His character in Lermontov's "Princess Mary- was able to seduce any woman at will. ... In Gogol's "Nevsky Project-, the romantic character Piskaryov is brought into play. ... Because of that, they are the only genuinely happy characters discussed here. ...

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Rosivach writes in his "Class Matters in Dyskolos" of Menander, describes the message of Menders play about class system being complex. ... A stock character is defined as a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer (Google). A stock character is also used to represent social types. The first influential stock character that Menander has in the play is Knemon. ... The flatness of his character is what makes Knemon a stock character. ...

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In As You Like by William Shakespeare the search for love acts as the primary motive behind the actions of the play's three characters - Rosalind, Touchstone and Orlando. ... The spirited Rosalind , daughter of Duke Senior, displays her quest for love through a complex manner and numerous encounters with Orlando and Celia . ... Rosalind's suggestion is not too ingenious a way of luring him into learning more about his character away from her presence but also she uses manipulation and deception to enhance her quest for love. ... In As You Like It by William Shakespeare the charact...

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In the case that a match has been consented, there are extensive and complex financial preparations to be made. ... Some agree that they are too inexperienced to judge the character of someone they just met. ...

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The psychologically thrilling and mystifying novel, Surfacing is a complex story that revolves around a nameless female narrator that has come back to the abandoned home of her childhood which is located on an island off the shores of a remote Quebec village. ... Atwood uses the narrator's ring as a reminder to the character of the reality of the difficulties surrounding relationships. ...

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On a more complex level, this suggests Chopin's idea that women of the nineteenth century as being viewed as week and humble human beings, always needing care like a child. ... Through the character Mrs. ...

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However, while Desdemona is strong and bold, Hero can be seen, at least from a modern perspective, as pathetic, while from an Elizabethan audience's point of view she can be seen as an honourable character. ... The subject of chastity and female honour can be further examined by exploring Desdemona's character. ... Her sacrifice at the beginning of the play foreshadows her sacrifice at the end, both in the name of love and honour, thus is a female character who acts honourably. ... Although both strong characters, Emilia differs from Desdemona as she doesn't have the love and d...

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The Flea appears deceptively casual in its composition and style but is infact a complex argument. ... The pretence of shock follows with his comparison of her act with the biblical character Herod. ... Donne indulged in quaint poetical conceits ignoring the classical conventions and classical characters (always keeping the object of affection anonymous), and the treatment of topics and objects of everyday life. ...

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