However, before delving into the past, Fitzgerald starts his novel in the present where he evaluates the four main characters in the novel. If this evaluation was placed at the end of the novel, responders may have developed their own personal opinions on the value of these characters contrasting to the portrait which Fitzgerald was trying paint of them. ... He creates a series of scenes, most of them parties and any gaps in the plot are effectively filled with brief passages of analysis and overview. ... Additionally, being selective with what was included in the plot by using the technique o...

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Using a limited omniscient point of view, Dubus presents Mitchell as a round dynamic point of view character when he says that "he felt much older. ... These characters, like Susan, her children, and the regulars at the bar, are all flat static characters that represent Mitchell's life before the incident, and do not change their perception of him. ...

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She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. ... From a tertiary level the female characters seem to gain more respect and authority as the years progress, but these scopophilic elements still persist through all the narratives. ... An analysis of these four contemporary Latin American films provides a way to look at the progression of the female presence in cinema. ... At the end of her essay Mulv...

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Context Social, Historical and Cultural Context The context surrounding 2001 A Space Odyssey contributes to the ground-breaking impact it had on cinema, and has ultimately influenced the content of the film. The central themes are strongly influenced by political and cultural developments at the ti...

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