His character represents the satirizing of the class system. ... Her character develops remarkably throughout the novel. ... His character has a well-rounded and fully developed personality and Jane Austen skillfully presents the complexities and developments in his character. ... Jane's complex personality defines her as more than just a mere caricature and as a fully developed character in Pride and Prejudice. ... Despite this, other characters in Jane Austen's novel are incredibly well developed with fully developed characters. ...

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Dostoevsky utilizes other characters in order to fully develop the complex picture of his central character Raskolnikov. ... Both characters similarities and differences shape the image of the main character. ... In addition, Dostoevsky further elaborates Raskolnikov's character by introducing his similarities to Porfiry. Porfiry is the only character that is Raskolnikov's intellectual equal and therefore understands the complex motives for his crime. ... Through comparison and contrast to the wise detective Porfiry, Raskolnikov proves to be a complex, intellectual individual torm...

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In particular, she investigates Fluebert's most perplexing allegorical character, the blind beggar. Within her essay Evans proposes to substantiate the beggar's role by "pinpoint[ing] the beggar's position [with]in the complex network of relationships connecting the characters-(4). Evans' review of the beggar's emblematic significance to the story's characters and themes gives a more in-depth revelation of Emma's tragedy. ... He represents the various phases and transitions within Emma, the story's central characters, and Flaubert's view of ...

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After a long exasperating reading through an insanely complex novel, Crime and Punishment, One will find themselves mentally anguished and disassociated with vocabulary understanding. ... Contained in this essay is an attempt at defining and comparing two focal characters that make themselves known in the novel. The characters of Raskolnikov and the beloved Sonia are carefully analyzed and exposed as the writer of this essay sees fit. ... Clearly the fact that both these characters overcome moral predicaments cannot be denied. ... The complex personalities of Raskolnikov and Sonia ...

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The characters must navigate through black magic, incest, rape, and the supernatural as they fall from grace and are faced with their consequences of their actions. ... Antonia's virtue prevents her from having the knowledge to properly protect herself and causes her to be one of the novels weakest characters. ... Beatrice de las Cisternas is a nun who leaves the convent to fulfill her desires and is described by the narrator as, "a character so depraved, she did not long to confine her characters to one being" (134). ... It is clear that "The Monk" portrays female sexuality in ...

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There is another character from Claudia's circle that fits into the femme fatale natured character, Steve Angell, his looks are what cause Claudia to doubt his sincerity, fearing that he may be working for the Lavender. ... This is also people's reaction to the characters associated with Harry Lavender. ... He talks of the city saying "Its growth and mine are inexplicably linked", this is can also be seen to represent the people in the city that are part of his trail of corruption, as one person is rid off another is brought in, in an endless circle, making the web of characters so c...

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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... The popular success of Eco's novels is surprising because they all are complicated narratives, intellectually challenging, packed with arcane information, and complex in the street se...

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The subjects of the novels were not Greek or Roman gods, nor knights or clowns but people from their own times and their own worlds. 18th century novelists chose sea-men, doctors, maids and even prostitutes and highwaymen as their chief characters but it was rare to find a duke or a knight being the hero of any novel. These novels chose not only average people as central characters but were always set in a perfectly average social background. ... The novel in one other aspects was decidedly different from all that followed in the fact that characters depicted in the novels were not complex in...

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It is because of this close relationship at the beginning that the breakdown is so upsetting for the reader as we come to know both these characters and identify with their relationship with one another. ... By using this style of narrative we are able to visualise what the character sees and how she sees it therefore it is very effective when analysing the relationships between women, however we must remember that because of this the perspective is warped and therefore you are not able to picture an unbalanced view of the opposing character, especially as Jane Eyre describes the characters so...

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This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi community. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will ...

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This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi community. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will ...

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Contents Introduction 3 Comprehending The French Lieutenant's Woman 5 Conclusion 18 Bibliography 20 Introduction. Apofatum is the ungivenness of the novelistic hero, motivated by the interaction of independent mental functions in him. ëåàòeeà is the unexpected turn of events considerably changing a direction of development of a plot. Interacti...

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