The Virginian's Growth as a Character Good novelists carefully develop their main characters. Events and other characters in the novel shape the personality of the main character. In his novel, The Virginian, Owen Wister's main character, the Virginian is bland and unattached early in the story, but gradually develops a complex personality. ... Wister provides the character with a complex interior, one of compassion, knowledge, and intellect. ...

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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 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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Why Orgon is the Hero of Tartuffe The characters of Tartuffe all play an integral part in the role of the play, but for a character to be considered the hero, they must rise above a personal flaw or circumstance to be victorious in the end. ... Orgon is the main character that is affected and hurt by Tartuffe. He is a very complex and human character that has the faults and strengths of a normal human being. ... Secondly, he is the character faced with the biggest problem: he has an usurper in his house. Thirdly, the story revolves around his blunders and then the ultimate triumph of not...

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This play has always been a difficult piece to analyze; featuring a very complicated central character and a story filled with many complex themes. The main character of this play, Hamlet, has been subjected to numerous interpretations and studies; his actions and thoughts have been analyzed again and again. ... The characters throughout the play try to decipher for themselves whether Hamlet had lost his mind or not. The two female characters Ophelia, Hamlets former lover, and Gertrude, his queen mother, both come to the conclusion that Hamlet is "mad". ... Yet Hamlet seems to know how to use...

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The character Higgins clearly shows this in the way he treats Eliza, a poor girl who he finds a project of fun in. Higgins and other characters show their true colors with no remorse or embarrassment. ... He proves to be a interesting character which challenges you on how you connect to the play in general. ... Shaw created a wide span of deep characters. ... His immorality and egotistical nature turn him into a complex character with many sides. ...

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By including internal conflicts in a character's development, an author can add depth to both the character and the novel. ... The main character's father, Wes, is divided between his love for his family, and his obligation to the law, which is his career. ... - However, the novel quickly takes a more complex turn that raises it to a new level. David, the main character, realizes "as do both his parents "that his Uncle Frank, a doctor, has been molesting, if not raping, young Indian girls during office visits. ... It now becomes the story of a complex moral struggle tha...

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Our main character is fascinated with all the things he feels the city lifestyle can offer him. ... Our main character realizes that freedom cam be forgotten or taken for granted. I feel these reasons demonstrate our main character's most significant personal realizations. ... The character demonstrates a feeling of loneliness where he lives and goes to school. ... Sometime outlives can become complex by just make simple change in our lives, that we through was going to make our lives better, were we sometime become sad, and we are waiting for that moment of to become free again. ...

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These two stories have different settings, different characters, they were even written at different times. ... Both of the authors through their stories lead the way for their characters and their final disillusionment. In his brief yet complex story "Araby-, James Joyce concentrates entirely on his character, a young boy who lived in Dublin around the turn of the century. ... As the story begins the main character is already a young woman. ... Both of the main characters in these stories are dreamers. ...

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Flat characters, also known as supporting characters, do not develop fully or express complex emotions. ... When a character undergoes a fundamental change in nature or personality during the story, the character has dynamic style. However, a character without change defines a static character. ... Introducing the personality of the character to the reader in words give or describe the personality of the characters or the words used imply certain things about the character. ... Authors help the reader understand where a character's values lie by using character archetypes or original patt...

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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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This movie is one of my personal favorites because of its use of narration, its cleverly written story, and its amusing and complex characters. ... The movie starts off with the main character dead, and then goes to a flashback. ... Another interesting character is Norma's butler Max. Max is one of the most unexpressive and dull characters. ... These three main characters helped to make the movie what it was. ...

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L.A Confidential can be seen as a rather complex story in comparison to Chandler's short noir stories. The movie revolves around three main characters, namely Jack Vincennes, Bud White and Edmund Exley. ... All three characters have contrastingly different goals to achieve and the beautiful plot develops them, as they are put through conflicts reflecting their individualism as they react differently according to their beliefs. ... Bud White was the first character to be introduced and the first scene quickly and very efficiently establishes his outline as a character in the story. ... W...

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The character of Judith (name meaning "Jewish woman", "Jewess", "woman from Judea") in the book bearing the same name is a complex person with many contradictions. ... This is a dramatic and fast moving story once we meet the main character in Judith, half way through the book. ... Critics suggest these changes in her character and appearance can be viewed as demeaning to women and frightening for men – could she achieve the same end if she were the same character when introduced. ... Judith (and other female leaders5) also comments on God's character and ...

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The main character, Alex, is a frightfully sadistic 15 year old "droog" who oddly finds solace in classical music such as Beethoven and Handel while he and his juvenile delinquents enjoy terrorizing the streets at night. ... Alex's love for classical music adds more to Alex's personality and therefore greater defines him as the central character in the novel. ... Because Alex sees himself as more mentally complex than Dim or the other droogs, music denotes Alex's superiority over his fellow droogs. And in a way, that is how Alex views almost every other character in the novel...

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