Character Analysis Essay

Villette is an incredibly character driven and focused novel, centered on comedic coincidences that deal with bumping into the same people in completely different places. This focus on the characters, and their many quirks, is a true testament to Bronte’s writing abilities. She possess the ability to make one absolutely loathe certain parts of a character, while sympathizing with others. Each character has been pushed to their limit, each representing a different aspect of society and the place…

you, Wild Awake? I wanted you to be good, but unfortunately, you were not because nothing happened and goddamn, your main character and the prose was cringe-worthy. Yes, that’s right, my dear friends. Nothing really happen. Yeah, Wild Awake seemed true to everyday life since life doesn’t have an overarching plot, and I would’ve enjoyed it if I hadn’t disliked the main character. It is a mess (albeit, somewhat fitting to the main character’s state of mind). When I was a few chapters into the…

or story isn’t always an actual movement from one place to another; the journey can be internal (mental/emotional). Often the journey can be represented as either a struggle or a desire to achieve a goal and most stories start off with the main character in search of something.. In the three novels read this summer we see this archetype, both internal and external journeys. While these three novels possess similarities in their journeys, they are also unique in their own way. The main…

According to Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby is the a masterpiece in American Literature. A masterpiece takes a great deal of work with the development of the characters and the plot of the story. Nick as the narrator does this by giving brief crucial descriptions of both the major and minor characters. Nick repeatedly demonstrates how almost every character has been consumed by the need and want for money. The greed within the hearts of both the East Eggers and West Eggers blinds them to the…

In the novel of broken monsters we see a series of characters portraying different kinds of artistry in hopes of captivating an audience. Our Author Lauren Beukes a South African writer, does a fantastic job describing each individual character and how they desire to captivate an audience. Beukes has a fascinating manner in which she delivers her divers themes of supernatural mystery, thematic creepiness and distinctive characterization throughout the text. When incorporating these three…

In “Greasy Lake”, by T. Coraghessan Boyle, a group of “bad characters” get into some trouble after cruising out at night. Dominick Grace asserts that “The youths in the story are clearly rebels without much cause and without much real need for rebellion. They are clearly not the genuinely bad characters they think they are.” (Grace 2). Throughout the story they try to show that they don’t care about anything through what they wear and through their actions, but that quickly changes after they…

someone who possesses upstanding qualities or has accomplished impressive feats. Similarly, a tragic hero in a piece of literature possesses upstanding qualities, yet also has a tragic flaw that eventually leads to his demise. For these reasons, the character John Proctor in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a tragic hero. Due to how John Proctor can be characterized as having goodness and a superior reputation, a tragic flaw, and an epiphany moment, he is the embodiment of a tragic…

Michael Rowe’s “Enter, Night” novel truly brings a variety of characters to life that any reader can connect with. However, as I progressed through the novel there was only one character I felt I truly connected with, one character that took me completely by surprise, and even made me tear up. This character is Finnegan Miller, also known as Finn. Finn is my favorite character from “Enter, Night” because of the innocence that he has, how deeply he loves someone or something and his interest in…

Characterisation Characterisation is a literary device that is used in literature to introduce and explain the details about a certain character in a story. In book The Great Gatsby, the main characterisation revolves around the social status of the characters. The major character of the book, Jay Gatsby, is evidently wealthy, but he does not come from or belong to the upper stratum of the society. The author used the dialogue and appearance of Gatsby to reflect on his wealth and social statues…

does well to showcase the moral ambiguity of real life. This ambiguity gives Vanderhaeghe the opportunity to craft all kinds of complex characters along the moral spectrum. One such complex character is Custis Straw. Straw stands out among his fellow cast as the most likeable and most integrous of the bunch. However, Custis is not the classic white knight character, but he is instead a very flawed man seeking redemption. There are so many motivations as to why the main cast venture out into the…