Stoppard gives two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet major roles. Both characters are knowingly aware of their position within the text as they discover their purpose. ... Characters are compelled to follow "the rules" of a horror film. Director Wes Craven has imitated Byatt by also incorporating parody in stereo typed characters. ... All characters are a parody of Hollywood horror film convention and like the characters in Possession set to confront the dominant way of thinking by challenging postmodernism. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this portrayal, characters rise above obstacles such as class distinction, and find their ways to happy endings. ... He rose through the class system, not unlike his character, Pip in Great Expectations. ... Dickens makes the role of the class system prominent to show the dangers of self-advancement, the corruptibility of power, and to show that one's class does not determine their character. ... The numerous errors in the system are shown in various characters, such as Drummle, who is haughty and arrogant because of his high class. ... Dickens also used it show that one's class d...

• Word Count: 2674
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The majority of the characters are very rude to Alice throughout her so called adventure. ... Another character that reflected the society at the time was the hookah smoking caterpillar. ... Many of the characters in the book were based upon specific people. ... Such as the white rabbit, whose probably meant to represent a specific British type, a nervous minor functionary, awed by powerful people and always trying to look good in front of his superiors. Another character is the Duchess. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, there were various works dealing with vampires and including erotic aspects and, fortunately, superstition as a serious topic constitutes a minor aspect for writers of the occult. ... Adèle Ratignolle, a character in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, is another literary example of the angel in the house. ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate