Characterisation

Atonement focuses on the first person narrative of thirteen year old Briony when she falsely accuses family friend Robbie Turner of raping her cousin Lola. Briony comes to this conclusion after a series of events including the reading of an extremely private letter, sent to her sister Cecilia by Robbie. Whilst Briony isn’t ever found out about lying to the police about Robbie she spends her adult life trying to repent for her actions, and in part one of the novel, McEwan explores the idea of…

Little Red Cap, recorded in 1812 by the Brothers Grimm, and The Little Girl and the Wolf published in 1940 by James Thurber reflect societal values and society’s representations of gender during the time that they were written in. In the first version of the Grimm’s tale, they constructed an unintelligent and oblivious protagonist to depict the lack of agency of women. They also introduced a male hero to the tale to implement the belief that a woman is always saved by a man in society. However,…

Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley and Anthony Minghella’s 1999 screen adaptation of the same name delve into the life of a man with a talent for impersonation, fraud and his desire to obtain a lush lifestyle beyond his means. Sexuality and eroticism play a key role in the film adaptation. The precursor novel does not portray Tom Ripley as an overt homosexual, it displays the character as a sexually ambiguous individual. However, in the film it is evident that Ripley would rather…

immature personality adds to the intricacy of his character, the idea that he used to be different but turned into a violent bully as he grew older also increases the complexity of his character. Williams did sacrifice some subtlety of Stanley's characterisation, such as leaving out his past and focusing more on Blanche's, but we can also see how Williams shows us the different sides of Stanley. He isn't a sentimental character, yet with his contrasting traits in his personality we are able to…

Purple Hibiscus takes place in post-colonial Enugu, Nigeria and it revolves around the seemingly perfect Achike family, with the main character and narrator being Kambili aged 15 an introvert and her older brother Jaja, who also is an introvert and excels at school. Mama (Beatrice), seems to be the tape holding this fragile family together and then there Papa Eugene; a stauch catholic, successful businessman, newspaper publisher, philantrophist among other attributes who still with all this,…

we see Suzanne Collins give certain representations to show ambition, corruption and power. Collins does this through the use of third person, prose language and symbolism. Likewise Robert Mulligan uses conventions such as music, setting and characterisation to convey the same representation in To Kill A Mockingbird. These conventions are also used in an article about the arrest of senior police officer in a corruption and abuse of his power in accordance to the Lloyd Rayney case. These authors…

The actor who played Albert did very well in portraying the young, energetic obliviousness of child in at the beginning of the play. He did this with energetic sudden movements always speaking with a tone of naturalness. This juxtaposed the characterisation of Albert when he became a soldier. His exterior became distant and his moves were calculating, as an audience we got the message about how the evil of war wipes away all innocence and purity. Albert’s mother is sensible woman who loves her…

Tonsils a short story by Melissa Lucashenko and Redfern Now (Episode 1) share the main theme of family responsibility throughout both mediums, but they both have other correlating themes such as Family loyalty, Irresponsibility and Maturity. Despite having a lot of the same themes, they have their differences but both ultimately tie into how family responsibility shapes people. "Blood makes you related, but loyalty makes you family". This quote is true to both "Redfern Now" and "Tonsils" as…

Evaluate how challenges to certainty are shaped by and reflected in the ways texts in this elective experiment with language and form. Textual dynamic texts convey the stark departure from established ideologies such as humanism, capitalism and the notion of progress following the events of World War II that induced a loss of faith in humanity and science. Composers experimented with language and form, attempting to communicate the postmodernist concerns of epistemological uncertainty through…

obsessive nature of physical discoveries may hinder our abilities to accept new values and perspectives. Wrack explores the negative ramifications of trying to rediscover something that has been lost as a result of necessity. This is clear in the characterisation of David, who is blinded to the true nature of discovery by his desire for fulfilment. The active pursuit of the ship, evoked by the necessity to stabilise his emotional state, results in an all-consuming need for discovery. This…