Characterisation

After reading the renowned text of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice, readers witness the social pressures which had been placed upon individuals of the time. Through both texts, we find that context plays a major role as the intertwining of marriage, love and fixed gender expectations engulf women of the time. As seen through Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy’s introduction at Meryton Ball, Mr Collins’ proposal to Elizabeth and followed by Lady Catherine’s introduction,…

Sam Huesgen Mr. Porter English IV 21 September 2015 Archetypes in The Boy in Striped Pyjamas The novel, The Boy In Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, not only involves the audience but also communicates ideas about issues that confront and challenge the reader. This is accomplished through themes such as misuse of power, discrimination, and man's inhumanity towards man, along with practical narrative techniques, character and setting. The Holocaust is a point in history that everyone at the…

barrier of understanding, which would have been present if it were not for the puppeteers to have complete focus on the puppet and use their facial expressions to . The actors that were controlling the puppet itself had to concentrate on the use of characterisation in order to keep the whole scene and Joey as naturalistic as they possibly could. By copying the noises of the actual horse they acted as, they used the medium ‘voice’ to show Joey’s physical and mental struggle of pulling the plough.…

Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is a 19th century social satire, written and set in 1813 England during the height of the regency period. Austen explores the plight of single women as well as the class structure and social snobbery of her historical context. Being a successful female writer herself and giving voice to the struggles of women in her novels, she undermined many of the societal boundaries of the 19th century and in this sense, was very much a subversive element in society. Fay…

Hayavadana, Naga-Mandala, Tale-Danda and The Fire and The Rain. He has been widely acclaimed by both the theatre and drama critics for certain aspects of his plays: plot construction, characterisation, song, symbolism, use of myth and folktales, reinterpretation of history, projection of contemporary social and psychological problems. In this paper ,an attempt has been to examine critically Karnard's depiction of contemporaneity in his play, Yayati . By exploiting myths and legends, he tried to…

Although cultural hegemony is undoubtedly present in New Zealand news media; the representation of women, however, is indubitably adjusting over time (Rios, Rodgers, Thorson & Yoon, 2014; Wood, 1995). As Wood (1995) argues women are under-represented in the news, thus, creating a powerful male-cultural hegemony. Moreover, when women are shown in the news they are depicted in stereotypical ways. In addition to this, Hardin and Shain (2005) argues, men in news – in particular sport – are shown in…

Ramona’s portrayal. In fact, James Bryan remarks that “critics who complain of Salinger’s sentimentality about children must have overlooked Booper” as she that unpleasant (358). In addition, Teddy’s passing also highlights his sister, Booper’s characterisation as well. When Teddy describes the manner in which he will die Booper’s probable involvement reveals her feelings towards him as she “’doesn’t like [Teddy] that much’” (193). Booper’s act of pushing Teddy into the empty pool also…

Ten Network Holdings owned Network Ten, one of the various five free-to-air channels in Australia, is an Australian commercial broadcasting network. The headquarters are located in Pyrmont, New South Wales, however stations can be found in all capital cities of Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane, airing to televisions all around the country. The channel, part of a slowly disintegrating form of media consumption has encountered a large loss, however, has attempted to stay up to date…

This can be easily seen throughout her description by the other characters. In the following quote, Lucy is explaining to Edmund who the White Witch is: “She is a perfectly terrible person, said Lucy. She calls herself the Queen of Narnia thought she has no right to be queen at all and […] at least all the good ones—simply hate her. And she can turn people into stone and do all kinds of horrible things. And she has made a magic so that it is always winter in Narnia—always winter, but it never…

valued pragmatism and individualism; believing that the pursuit of knowledge was noble and that nature was to be dominated by man. These values are shown in varying degrees within Victor Frankenstein, the Creature and Robert Walton. By use of characterisation, language and setting Shelley challenges these values and attitudes, instead favouring the mindset that natural forces controlled men and that extreme use of these values and…