In each piece, a groundbreaking shift in lifestyle marks the beginning of a streak of unfulfilled hopes, and the reason lies within the character's past of contradictory morals. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini develops Amir within a complex tangle of emotional trauma and family issues which are inherently the basis of his downfall. ... Each character faces an inevitable future due to an unfortunate or unfavorable past. ... Amir is a complex character in that his desire to remain silent about his feelings incessantly overcomes his desire to confront others. ...

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The Crucible is a complex piece filled with flawed characters who are prideful, greedy and corrupt, while some are motivated by power, money, lust and revenge, others use witchcraft to gain power or confess sins. Of the plethora of imperfect characters portrayed in this novel, Abigail Williams is the most blemished. ... Additionally, Abigail is a vindictive character that will stop at nothing to reach her goal. ...

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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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The male characters, conveyed as sexually experienced, abuse and mistreat the female characters. ... Shakespeare uses sexual imagery to signify Hamlet as a literary example of a child, who never overcame his Oedipus complex. ... Due to his tolerance to both these codes, Hamlet is identified as a transitional character and as a tragic hero. ...

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Bosola's character is next only to that of the Duchess in interest and significance. He is one of the most complicated and complex of the male characters of our dramatist. According to Shelling, " He remains the most consummate character in "The Duchess of Malfi." ... Bosola is the most complex person in the play, and in many respects the most interesting. ... At his first entrance, however, the most striking thing about him is not his reputedly violent character but his brooding over disparity between merit and reward. ...

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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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The town of Two Mills is segregated and the characters from both the East and West End of the town deal with this societal issue throughout the book. ... The other characters in the story provide a way to show Maniac's evolution in the story and provide meaningful experiences for him to learn from. ... The characters are interesting and the style has a fun tone and there is humor in the writing, so children are likely to enjoy reading this book. ... This book does appeal to children as it introduces complex themes through an action-packed plot. ... I enjoyed reading both Maniac Magee and...

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The characteristics of realism involved focusing more on the character than on the plot, as well as decisions that the character was faced with. In the realistic story, "A White Heron," character and characterization are the most important elements of the story because of the emphasis on Sylvia in general, as well as the difficult resolution she is forced to make. ... The main character in "A White Heron" is the most significant component because of the author's emphasis on, not only Sylvia, but the complex decision she must consider. ... In the end, Sylvia chooses what she feels is rig...

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The role of women in ancient Greek life is deemed irrelevant compared to that of Greek men, however, in tragedies, women are often written as major characters, revealing important insights on the perceptions and treatment of women in society. ... Many Greek plays contain several complex female characters; Aeschylus is a playwright whom incorporates a very complex female character, Clytemnestra in his play Agamemnon. ... Although women play irrelevant roles in everyday Greek life, playwrights incorporate females as major dramatic characters in order to reveal insights on how women were thought ...

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She introduced techniques of characterization, theme development, and dialogue and introduces the Maya character to bring out aspects of her story from the perspective of a child. Fiction stories tap into emotions and have deep impact on people; the stories create empathy for their characters and readers identify with their struggles and frustrations. The book is powerful and captivating, with richly realized and complex characters; Angelou brings out racial prejudice in America in 1930 and 1940s and the book help understand the plight of African Americans. ... Angelou went from being a victi...

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In the film Raging Bull, the character of Jake La Motta as played by Robert De Niro is the central character around which the film revolves. ... Scorsese's films often concern small time hoods or individuals on the edge or over the edge of psychosis, they are, on a more complex level, about style and reputation, about how it looks and feels to be in the world, looking at people and being looked at, seen, recognized and hurt by the glance of others (kolker 89). ... For Scorsese, the life of LaMotta was like an illustration of a theme always present in his work, the inability of his char...

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Although the story was written in 1904 and that particular personnality disorder was only diagnosed in 1977, Cather's character embodies many of the symptoms listed by the doctors, such as: "highly developped sense of self importance, preoccupation with fantasies of success, belief that he is special, feeling he has the envy of peers, and arrogant behavior." ... The protagonist in Willa Cather story is complex. ...

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Marlowe's Edward-II, which derives its sources from the chronicles by Holinshed and Stowe, centres around the tragedy of misrule in a complex and intriguing manner. ... The very beginning of the play gives us a hint to the character of Edward, his irresponsibility towards his kingdom, as he writes in a letter to Gaveston, "My father is deceased; come Gaveston, and share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.... Edward then realized the worth and significance of the crown and thus, his character gained the depth of life. ...

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The severity and high value of the Salem witch trials created complex situations in which stir up problems in Salem. ... Throughout the hysteria, Abigail's motivations never seem more complex than simple jealousy and a desire to have revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. ... For instance, when John proctor attacks Abigail's character, he feels that his reputation might be threatened, so he quickly sides with Abigail challenging proctors faith in the lord by questioning his church going habits. ...

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Based on the compelling and provocative 1992 stage play written by Nick Parsons, Dead Heart taps into the timely and heated ongoing debate concerning the complex and delicate issue of racism, integration and multi-culturalism in Australia. As with Peter Weir's The Last Wave, Dead Heart uses the background of a murder mystery to further explore this complex issue of Aboriginal culture and traditions and the inevitable clash that results when white Australians try to impose their own system of beliefs, values and history. ... In a change of pace for this normally fairly wooden and one dim...

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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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I greatly admire the way Iago brings out all of the other characters" secrets and confessions. ... Shakespeare clearly brings out the importance and irrelevance of the major and minor characters, respectively. ... More specifically, the way that one responds to Iago's commands or news modifies another character, and it continues from there on, until every conflict is resolved. Jealousy, an evident theme seen throughout the play, occurs in almost every character, which creates suspense. ... Iago is evidently a fascinating, complex character who can't be analyzed in simple terms. ...

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In using simple, uneducated language, he added to the realism of not only the story's characters, but also the situations in which they were put in. ... He was merely developing the character and making him believable by using the language a real person of that sort would use. ... This means that Anderson was not only trying to trick the reader into accepting the character as real, but also take the reader into the deep mind of the character to help them to better understand the seemingly uncomplicated, but truly complex, individual. ... In repeating phrases, such as the narrator's n...

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Structural Elements of the Personality When we say "I" we are speaking from the ego complex. That means we are identifying with certain structures associated with the ego including the body-image and the usual sense of character structure (such as, "I am a reliable person."). ... Complex is an emotionally charged group of ideas or images within the psyche which is partially split off from the ego and therefore can operate autonomously. As Jung says: everyone knows nowadays that people have complexes, what is not so well known however, is that complexes having us. ... At the...

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Shakespeare used many different character traits to compose full-bodied characters that we can still relate to today. ... Even though we cannot exactly see the aspirations of some characters in the story until later on, it is quite plainly laid out for the audience to see what kind of person each character is. ... Iago is perhaps the character I trust the least in the character but perhaps the most exciting. ... Brabantio seems to be a character similar to Roderigo in his thoughts but without the actions. ... We can conclude that Desdemona is a slightly complex character and we cannot ...

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But in its themes this book ishighly original, for it takes real characters and situationsand mixes them with science fiction. ... The character Jacov Liebermann isbased on Simon Wiesenthal, the well-known Nazi hunter.The Nazis believed in eugenics, the elimination ofunwanted human traits by selective breeding. ... Levin uses this to constructhis complex plot, for Mengele needs to ensure that his'boys from Brazil' have the same childhood experiencesas Adolf Hitler had, especially the death of his father.Organising the deaths of the adopted fathers is the eventwhich makes Mengele vuln...

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In this short story, "Hills like White Elephants", Hemingway relies on the use of symbolism throughout the story to describe a very complex issue that has encountered Jig and The American, the main characters in the story. ... Again, an aspect of the story's setting helps reinforce the main disagreement between the characters and the agonizing choice they will have to make. ... Overall, "Hills like White Elephants" can be a complex story to comprehend, but his use of symbolism allows the reader to relate to the actual events. ...

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Iago was created to be the catalyst of the play, a character fuelled by jealousy. ... We are given soliloquies that give insight to Iago's true character and intentions, enough to know and understand that he is a two-sided character. ... Iago wears a mask when facing other characters, the mask of honesty. ... It would be unfair to say that Iago is a simple character; rather, Shakespeare uses various techniques to make him the complex man he truly is. ... " Shakespeare created a character that was symbolically similar to Satan; both characters crave the destruction of all things that ...

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In the short story by Gabriel García Márquez called, "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" he portrays two brilliant characters known as Spider-Woman, and an old man with huge wings who is also known as an angel. In this short story, it displays some similarities, and differences between the Spider-Woman and the Old man to show their efficiency, and how the characters explore dualities in human life. ... The story shows that the people think the Old Man with Angel wings, not understandable people because he is more complex, and does not tell the people any information about h...

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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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