Characterisation

comparison of the passivity of cinders. Here Bronte try’s to shape the story of Cinderella to suit her own explicit purposes and conscience belief of an independent woman, as evident in chapters 32-34 of the novel. Despite the difference in the characterisation of the titular characters, Jane Eyre continues to parallel Cinderella. In both Jane Eyre and Cinderdella the titular characters are reunited with their prince and they get married fulfilling Bronte’s cultural assumption. In Cinderella,…

Unlike the movie, Orwell 's intrinsic meaning and ability to encapsulate the spirit of his totalitarian dystopia stems not from his dialogue or characterisation, but from his essays. He was often able to truly dive into the nature of the INGSOC regime through his pages of explanation as to how they maintain such control within their society. For example, at the very beginning of the book, Orwell lists…

Anton Chekhov, the Russian dramatist excelled in the creation of women characters. Russian theatre and other playwrights were his inspiration. Chekhov excelled in creating complex characterization of women. He possessed a multifaceted distinctiveness with a range of themes and subjects, voice and style. His plays combine popular appeal with credibility Russia produced literature and actors of its own towards the end of the nineteenth century. Tolstoy and Maxim Gorky, Stanislavskh and Danchenko…

Across the entirety of Passage Two, Austen explores the defilement of social intercourse through the characterisation of the gauche Mrs. Elton. The ironic certainty of Mrs. Elton’s appraisal of Maple Grove’s alleged beauty in “yes, I am quite aware of that” elucidates the overbearing nature of her persona; unlike the gentle Emma’s consideration for Mr Woodhouse in the third passage, Mrs. Elton is seen by the reader as aggressive in enforcing her beliefs upon the greater world around her, a…

deum est colere deum, or “to believe in God is to go down on your knees.” For such bold assertions to be true we need to be careful and specific with our definition of worship. This, however, is an immensely complex task. Although many tidy characterisations of biblical worship exist, lexical studies into worship offer increasingly complex and amoeba-like…

Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is based on the 1692 Salem witch trials and explores the changing power relationships between the characters. To a certain extent, the play explores the idea of characters who were previously powerless, becoming empowered as a result of the trials, however, two more prevalent themes associated with this power related theme were characters losing and abusing power. Abigail and the other young girls who she drags into her story are temporarily empowered…

Through a comparative study of texts, connections can be drawn which both challenge and reinforce responder’s perspectives on universal values which endure and remain relevant through changing contexts. Jane Austen’s didactic literature Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Fay Weldon’s epistolary work Letters to Alice (1984) encapsulate values inherent within each respective society whilst simultaneously challenging and reshaping reader’s understanding of these ideas. Through Pride and Prejudice,…

Richard’s exaggerated deformity as not a consequence of opposing the divine order but rather a ‘metaphorical representation of the inner corruption of his mind’. Through the cinema verite of Richard in black attire, shadows and limping, the dramatic characterisation reveals the pernicious state of his mind. Pacino uses enigmatic tone of repetitive voice, “an amorous looking glass cheated of feature by deformed…deformed…deformed” to reveal Richard’ internally fragmented self accompanied with…

Introduction The short story ‘Only Ten’ by Allan Baillie is a heart touching novel which relates to a 10 year old kids called Hussein ‘The Shah’. In the story, the protagonist Hussein is a refugee who has come to Australia from a war zone country. He is an intruder at his new school, where he is seen differently by other kids in both appearance and behaviour. As the time passes Hussein makes the first move towards acceptance when he offers comfort and sympathy to a fellow students whose sister…

Through their powerful renderings of war and politics, Niccolò Machiavelli's iconoclastic 1532 political treatise The Prince and Shakespeare's 1599 historical tragedy Julius Caesar mutually seek to explore the nature of human weakness. A manifestation of Machiavelli's radically realpolitik interpretation of Renaissance humanism, The Prince subverts the traditional Christian moral zeitgeist, redefining weakness in instrumental terms - that a leader's results are superior in importance to his…