In the "General Prologue,"" the characters are introduced. ... It is in this depiction of the Franklin that Chaucer first implants in the reader's mind that the Franklin is an admirable character and a character that is to be respected not only by his fellow pilgrims, but by the reader. ... The entrance of Aurelius as a character and the tale's central conflict only serves as a test of morality for all of the involved characters. In the case of the Franklin's characters, all are noble and kind, even in the case of Aurelius. ... Through the Franklin's characters, ult...

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In Jane Austen's literary classic, "Pride and Prejudice," Austen attempts to influence the audience into sharing her views on women and the importance of marriage. ... The author uses literary devices such as foreshadowing, conflict, and irony to show the contrasts of different marriages in order to highlight their differences. ... They are also one of the few characters who find happiness. ... These characters were used as literary objects to show what can happen if people marry without love. ... Austen used the characters in her novel to enunciate the issues with love. ...

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Vernon ENG 1123 GT01 30 April 2014 Pride, Love, and Race in "Desiree's Baby" In the story "Desiree's Baby", Kate Chopin introduces three characters in the plot, but only two of them have a vital role. Desiree and Armand are the two characters in the story that play that vital role. ... Literary Reference Center. ... Literary Reference Center. ...

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Countess Nordston Tolstoy brings Kitty's friend Countess Nordston to life through the use of various literary devices. This enables the reader to better understand this character and it makes her and the novel more real. ... By introducing the Countess with this unflattering language Tolstoy shows how she is a character to be disliked. ... This is done through the literary device of interior monologue and lets it be known that Levin's dislike of her is mutual. ... This action reveals a depth in the Countess's character and makes her appear much more real...

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Kate Chopin uses irony in several different ways, and these methods can be seen as literary links between her stories, "Desiree's Baby" and "The Story of an Hour." because each gives an emotional shock to the reader, which also helps link the theme of women facing depression through appearance versus reality. Both of these stories show the main characters, Mrs. ... In "Desiree's Baby" and "The Story of an Hour" both of the main characters have huge similarities in their marriages. ...

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Many of them, such as the characters in The Sun Also Rises, developed a cynical attitude towards American life and chose to immigrate to Europe. ... Not unlike most of the characters of The Sun Also Rises, Robert experienced harsh alienation from society, in his case, anti-Semitism. ... After finalizing the divorce, Robert met and immigrated to Europe with status seeking social-climber, Frances Coyne, whom he worked with on a literary magazine with. ... Of all the characters in The Sun Also Rises, Robert Cohn has the experienced the most alienation. ... It also makes him one of the most in...

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The historical novel, "A Farewell to Arms," by Ernest Hemingway in 1929, uses a minor character as a foil to show the strengths and weaknesses of the main character. ... Hemingway uses the literary device of foil characters to show how opposites attract. ...

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He remarks "You and I have different role to play-, likening the situation to a literary scenario where the characters have clearly defined roles that evidently supports his behavior. ... Brian, the only male character to defy prejudices, reveals his homosexuality to Ellen challenging the roles of customary males. ... When Kate slowly becomes an invalid, the inadequacy of fixed roles is revealed, as imbalance becomes evident and a characters assurance is uncovered by Quindlen to be misguided. ...

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He remarks "You and I have different role to play-, likening the situation to a literary scenario where the characters have clearly defined roles that evidently supports his behavior. ... Brian, the only male character to defy prejudices, reveals his homosexuality to Ellen challenging the roles of customary males. ... When Kate slowly becomes an invalid, the inadequacy of fixed roles is revealed, as imbalance becomes evident and a characters assurance is uncovered by Quindlen to be misguided. ...

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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. ... No matter what sex the lead is Oedipus Rex is and always will be one of histories" greatest literary classics....

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Oedipus Rex by Sophocles is a famous Greece tragical play. The main character, Oedipus, is considered as a classic tragic hero base on the most influential literary theorist, Aristotle's definition of tragic hero. According to the definition, a tragic hero is a person who is not eminently good and j...

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The other main female character in this play is Hero, Leonato's daughter and Beatrice's cousin. ... Compared to the other characters, Claudio definitely changes the least throughout the play. ... Leonato, Hero's father and Beatrice's uncle, goes through a slight metamorphosis in this literary work. ... Antonio, Borachio, and Dogberry all displayed some minor character changes, too. ... His witty characters speak comical lines, and the whole play is very entertaining. ...

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Gilman uses the literary device of character to convey the lack of communication between the narrator and her husband/society. ... In other words, miscommunication is conveyed through the main character of the story. ... Her character's mental demise is shown when she is frantically ripping the yellow wallpaper to shreds trying to free the women trapped in it. Moreover, this can be seen as the direct result of miscommunication between the character and the society which she lives in. The doctors and physicians in this story fail to correctly diagnose their patients who have similar prob...

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Kate Chopin's literary work "The Story of an Hour" is a feminist literary study. It is published in Vogue in 1894. The status of women is what concerns in feminism. According to Jonathan Culler "feminist criticism is the name that should be applied to all criticism to the critical ramifications of s...

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Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's wildly passionate best-selling literary masterpiece, written in 1847, is still considered one of the greatest romantic books ever written about the eternal love between two soul mates, an adopted gypsy boy Heathcliff and manor-born Cathy. ... The characters within the story are truly fascinating, since they have numerous characteristic aspects. ... The central characters in the book are all likeable people. ... (Dickens, Charles) Today, Lucie Manette would by no means be taken seriously as a believable, even likable character. ... It is actually doome...

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The plays twists and turns around this theme, its characters lying in order to be "Ernest," and then discovering that because of a number of remarkable circumstances they had not in fact been lying at all. ... The play mocks this earnestness; it is the characters who do not act earnestly who are rewarded with love, and who are proven not to have been acting dishonestly at all. ... Oftentimes, these epigrams express ironic views contrary to what we would expect characters to believe. ... It pokes fun at the aristocracy, the literary world, marriage, English manners and customs, women, men, love...

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The Taming of the Shrew is a literary exploration of marital issues presented explicitly and implicitly by Shakespeare's characters. The characters demonstrate and allow insight into the preferred behaviour of men and women in marriage, their appropriate roles and duties, and each person's expectations in a partnership. These messages of accepted and traditional understandings are explicitly expressed and easily understood through the characters" statements and speeches. The implied meanings in dialogue, character development and outcomes allow insight into the underlying messages...

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In the first few chapters Wilde introduces a two characters of extreme importance, Jack and Algernon. ... So in this way Wilde relates to the characters in the story and their deception of oneself and others. ... Often some of these sayings express ironic views contrary to what we would expect characters to believe. ... Cecily, like Jack and Algernon, has created a character, that of Jack's brother Ernest, and she has taken the motif of the delusion duel personality a step further by literally writing a correspondence between herself and "Ernest." ... It pokes fun at the English Victori...

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As readers, we try to relate to the characters we read about. ... When Bronte created the main character of the book, Heathcliff, she had no interest in creating a character we could relate to. Yet we are still intrigued with the character she created. ... Heathcliff is such a diverse character in this novel that his character is able to repel and engage us. ... Heathcliff also treated other characters poorly. ...

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Robert Browning's poem "My last Duchess- is spoken from the perspective of the Duke and conveys the Dukes personality through the literary form of a dramatic monologue. ... This monologue as spoken by the Duke represents many definitive traits that the Duke encompasses in his character. ... The character of the Duke is established as one of a man who believes he is the center of the universe. ... Robert Browning's poem "My last Duchess- is spoken from the perspective of the Duke and conveys the Dukes personality through the literary form of a dramatic monologue. ...

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The main character of the story is the wife, Mrs. ... The supporting character in this story is Mr. ... His character creates the conflict that Mrs. ... Ballard's character provides the morbid suggestion that a person can find glee in death with no regard for their emotional attachment to that person. ... The omnscient point of view leads us into the main characters thoughts and feelings that she would not normally express out loud. ...

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The play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare is a tragedy defined by the revealing soliloquies that allow readers to peer deep into the thoughts of the characters. In the beginning of the play, the main character Hamlet learns of his father's death, and soon thereafter his mother's remarriage to his uncle. ... Gertrude and Claudius become the antagonistic characters of the story within this soliloquy, and the use of the word incest may be the reason. Hamlet becomes a character a reader will sympathize through this soliloquy. ... Through the use of literary terms, Shakespeare has sh...

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The movie involves the fictional characters of vampires and werewolves. ... Many characters change throughout Shakespeare's tragic play, Romeo & Juliet. ... Later in the play, Juliet's character begins to change. ... In the play, Juliet and Capulet's character are two of the characters in the play that change the most. Characters in plays change like people as life goes on. ...

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Throughout literary history women have played two very different, yet distinct roles. ... 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. ... 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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Scarlett O"Hara of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is far from an admirable literary heroine. She is self-centered, vain, manipulative, curt, abrupt, shallow, and stubborn. She is also misjudged by her appearance and subsequently proves herself an equal in a Civil War-era man's world. She is...

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