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An Analysis of the Characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, a Play by William Shakespeare (673 words, 1 pages)

Having submitted to his ambition to gain the Crown by whatever means, Macbeth murders Duncan, a guest in his castle, and thus relentlessly commits him to a career of Evil that leads him to ruin. He can never turn back and seek redemption. Once set upon his course, he moves ... Read More

An Analysis of a Tragic Character in Oedipus (490 words, 1 pages)

According to the Aristotelian characteristics of good tragedy, the tragic character should not fall due to either excessive virtue or excessive wickedness, but due to what Aristotle called hamartia. Hamartia may be interpreted as either a flaw in character or an error in judgement. Oedipus, the tragic character in Sophocles ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Edna Pontellier in the Book the Awakening (973 words, 2 pages)

The Awakening is a novel about the growth of a woman into her own person, in spite of the mold society has formed for her. The book follows Edna Pontellier through about a year of her life. During this time we see her struggle to find who she really is, ... Read More

Aristotle’s Definition of Oedipus’ Tragic Character (605 words, 2 pages)

Oedipus as a Tragedy by Aristotle s DefinitionA tragedy by definition is a drama which recounts an important and casually related series of events in the life of a person of significance, such events culminating in an unhappy catastrophe, the whole treated with great dignityand seriousness . The Greek tragedies ... Read More

The Differences between the Characters of Madame Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz in the Novella the Awakening by Kate Chopin (745 words, 1 pages)

The AwakeningIn the novella The Awakening by Kate Chopin, two supporting characters, Madame Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, represent two distinctively different females of the Victorian Age. Madame Ratignolle serves as society s idea of the ideal woman. There is nothing subtle or hidden about her charms her beauty is all ... Read More

An Analysis of the Characters in the Novel the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1315 words, 2 pages)

The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view her as pretty in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Holden Caulfield (4325 words, 5 pages)

I swear to God I m crazy. I admit it. It is very easy to automatically assume that Holden Caulfield is crazy. It s even a logical assumption since Caulfield himself admits to being crazy twice throughout the course of the book. However, calling Holden Caulfield crazy is almost the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Holden Caulfield in the Novel the Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (647 words, 1 pages)

Holden Caulfield can be analyzed through his thoughts, actions and circumstances which surround his everyday life. Holden acts like a careless teenager. Holden has been to several prep-schools, all of which he got kicked out of for failing classes. After being kicked out of the latest, Pency Prep, he went ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Holden in the Novel the Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (1046 words, 2 pages)

Holden's criticisms of society center around the fact that he finds society dirty, corrupt and extremely "phony". He views society as a fake surrounding for us all, wants desperately to protect the innocent from the damaging effects of society, and strives to isolate himself from it. I agree with his ... Read More

An Analysis of Odysseus’ Sun and Shadow Traits in Odyssey by Homer (762 words, 1 pages)

Odysseus' Sun and Shadow TraitsThe traits or characteristics of a person play a major role in hisher life. The sun side is the ostensible meaning, the side that is most obvious and bare of all symbols, inner meanings, and shrouded connotations. The shadow side is the hidden element of a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Capricious Character of Nora (574 words, 2 pages)

Nora s Character Act 1The capricious character of Nora is particularly difficult to interpret. Her character is constructed by the combination of a number of varying traits.Throughout Act 1 her ambiguity is particularly prominent. Her frivolous, playful moments are readily followed by moments of practicality and astuteness. Her inconsistent moods ... Read More

An Analysis of The Character of Dantes in the Book the Count of Monte Cristo (830 words, 1 pages)

The Count of Monte Cristo is an interesting tale about a sailor named Dantes who changes his whole persona in order to get back at his enemies. Dantes becomes a number of different people in order to carry out his plans. The changes Dantes went through made his different stages ... Read More

A Description of the Characters of The Evil in Notre Dame (751 words, 1 pages)

The Evil in Notre DameIn The Hunchback of Notre Dame, there are many interesting characters, However, I think Claude Frollo is a good one to talk about. In the book Claude is a priest who sees a beautiful girl and thinks unpure thoughts about her. Since he is a priest ... Read More

A Focus on the Three Main Characters in the Story “Not Fade Away” (845 words, 2 pages)

The music, and namely three characters, Joshua, Donna, and the ghost in Not Fade Away, are the most important elements to the book. The title alone is a song by the Grateful Dead, and throughout the entire book, music is present. George Gastin is out on the road the entire ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Tom Sawyer in the Book the Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1381 words, 2 pages)

Tom Sawyer, the main character of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain, is an average boy who is bored with his civilized life and escapes these constraints by pulling pranks, and pulling other mischievous things. The character of Tom, in the most part, is presented as a ... Read More

The Rise to Power of Alphonse Capone, the Most Vicious Mobster and Killer of the Century (1343 words, 4 pages)

Alphonse Capone And His Rise To Power During the Capone era many mobsters were in power. As Al Capone grew, he began to associate with many different bosses and was in the neighborhood with many mob run gangs. After being involved and associated with these gangs, Capone then joined one, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Main Characters of Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls (2303 words, 3 pages)

Valley of the DollsValley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann chronicles the life of a three young girls working to overcome pain, hardships, and drug abuse and cope with fame, all the while handling the pressure of everyday life. These friends go through things together that most people never dream ... Read More

An Analysis of Women Characters in Alice Walker’s and Theodore Roethe’s Poems (792 words, 1 pages)

A Woman s Place is in the HeartThe poems A Woman Is Not A Potted Plant by Alice Walker and I Knew A Woman by Theodore Roethke both speak about women having an aura about them of beauty and magnificence. In A Woman Is Not A Potted Plant Walker uses ... Read More

A Character Analysis of Dr. Hoenikker from Kurt Vonnegut’s Book Slaughterhouse-Five (921 words, 2 pages)

Vonnegut, considered by many to be one of Americas foremost living authors, was himself a veteran of World War Two. He, as a prisoner of war, was one of the few survivors of the fire-bombing of Dresden. In Dresden he saw what many believe was a more horrible tragedy than ... Read More

Ann Hutchinson’s Bravery and Independence as a Heroic Character (631 words, 1 pages)

Ann HutchinsonA heroine can be defined as "a woman of heroic character a female hero". As far back as one knows, there have been many heroines throughout history. Ann Hutchinson is one of a few famous heroines. From my opinion, she did great things while from another's perspective she did ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character Mattie Rigsbee from Clyde Edgerton’s Novel Walking Across Egypt (655 words, 1 pages)

Mattie Rigsbee is the main character in Clyde Edgerton's southern style novel, Walking Across Egypt. Mattie is a seventy-eight year old widow with two middle-aged children. Living alone in a small house, she makes sure that everything is taken care of. Although begins to display some signs of aging, and ... Read More

The Character of Asher Lev and His Growing up in Jewish Community (424 words, 1 pages)

There are many choices that Asher Lev is faced with as he journeys from childhood to manhood. These choices define who Asher is, and what he believes in, as well as shattering the boyhood innocence he once possessed. One of the first choices which alter Asher's life is his decision ... Read More

An Analysis of Rorschach, a Character in The Watchmen, a Comic Book Series by Alan Moore (1295 words, 1 pages)

Through the character Rorshach, The Watchmen explores the issues of nature verses nurture for him. Moore adds that a super hero, can be a psychological argument. A super hero is neither born nor shaped by environment, it is the creation of an alter ego to suppress childhood conflicting inner issues. ... Read More

Nature: The Main Character in Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat (1212 words, 2 pages)

There are more characters than just the captain, the correspondent, the oiler and the cook in Stephen Crane's The Open Boat. There is a fifth character nature. Nature can be seen as the main character in the story as it is constantly affecting the four men in the boat and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie My Left Foot and the Motivational and Unique Personality Traits (785 words, 1 pages)

Often enough, it is very hard to muster up enough courage to begin working on that lab report or thesis paper that is becoming closer to being due. I experienced this feeling when putting my own thoughts together for the writing of this particualr paper. The ambition needed to commence ... Read More

An Analysis of the Female Characters in My Antonia by Willa Cather (556 words, 1 pages)

"THERE was a curious social situation in black hawk. All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls who had come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help their fathers struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for ... Read More

A Biography of Charles Dickens an English writer and social critic who created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters (717 words, 1 pages)

CHARLES DICKENSIn 1812, one of the greatest writers of all time, according to many, was born to the name of Charles John Huffman Dickens. Charles Dickens' family was not well to do, and was a lower-middle class family with eight children, Charles being the second. He had a painful personal ... Read More

An Analysis of Daisy, a Character in The Great Gatsby, a Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald (718 words, 1 pages)

Destructive InnocenceThe novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald paints a perfect picture of a lady in the 20's. Daisy was a woman that had "something special" about her whenever she would speak to a man he would get weak in the knees. Her beauty captured those men's eyes ... Read More

An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of the Characters Harry Nash and Helene Shaw (752 words, 1 pages)

Who are they now?In 'who am I this time', I believe the author is try to tell the story of how two wandering souls had found each other through the strangest of circumstances. The two main characters Harry Nash and Helene Shaw both have trouble communicating with other people. They ... Read More

A Study of the Character of Beatrice (392 words, 1 pages)

I wasn t able to attend the play in Spring Green, WI, so I will be giving an explanation of one of the characters of the play. I have chosen to talk about Beatrice, and I hope I can make it two whole pages.Beatrice is the niece of Leonato, who ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013