other teenage readers, uses first narration to communicate to the audience from the teenage perspective and also has use of narrative structure which allows Oliver to separate the aspect of teenage life. Conclusively, the narrative techniques of characterisation, foreshadowing and imagery present the ideas…
Bernard Schlink influences the audience of the The Reader to explore the cost of various issues. Literacy is shown to be valued, through the use of irony and characterisation through Hanna’s illiteracy. The obedient human nature is examined through Hanna’s trial, with the use of symbolism and charactisation. Michael’s narration is trusted, forcefully, through the use of narrative voice, symbolism, and metaphors. Whilst the audience views the relationship between Michael and Hanna negatively…
treatment that they suffer at the hands of the white citizens. The Indigenous Australians likened to wildlife suggests their neglect of benefits and rights, resulting in the dehumanizing of the Indigenous race. This is again highlighted by the characterisation of Mr Neville, as he says: “Indigenous Australians are dirty people, they are thieves that cannot be trusted.” The dialogue demonstrates the view that authority figures share towards the Indigenous people, along with their belief that…
text Equus explores a range of concepts through the gradual awakening of central character Martin Dysart. Shaffer conveys ideas such as the importance of truth, and the gap between the life lived and life imagined for oneself, through symbolism, characterisation, monologues and the stagecraft of the text. It is these ideas that respectively shape Dysart’s unwilling acceptance of the passionless life he live, and develop the broader theme of questioning where meaning is sourced in life.…
The play 'The Laramie project' by Moises Kaufman addresses the brutal murder of openly gay teenager Matthew Shepard in a small town of Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. The chronological structure of the play draws together interviews conducted after the event by Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theatre Project. Additionally, Kaufman uses these journal entries to retell and reconstruct what happened on the night of Matthew's assault, addressing the issue of gay hate crime. The play itself was…
support them and their future children. Bronte explores this idea of conventional love through the characterisation of Edgar and Cathy’s relationship. Cathy’s love for Edgar Linton is influenced by him being “handsome, and young, and cheerful, and rich,” and he loves her, ergo making him society’s idea of a worthy husband. Contrastingly Bronte explores a more emotional romantic love with the characterisation of the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff.…
“You mustn’t look ... for the old stable ego of character. There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognizable.” (D. H. Lawrence) How did modernism re‐conceive character? With the rise of modernism there came a huge change in the way characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave…
referred to as the femme fatale. The femme fatale is a hero type who uses her feminine wiles to seduce lovers, who subsequently find themselves in dangerous or difficult situations. Lewis’ creation of a masculine gothic novel contributes to the characterisation of Matilda and her fulfillment of the Dark Hero role. The masculine gothic novel provides that characters and readers witness terrors and spectacles. Lewis provides these spectacles through the manipulation of women or through feminine…
their meeting and love was pre-destined. Misfortune played a part in their demise by preventing Friar John from delivering Friar Lawrence’s letter due to the play being set during the time of the plague. However, Tybalt also deserves blame as his characterisation made him a hot-headed and impulsive person which was solely responsible for Romeo’s banishment. Although fate was partially responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, there were many other factors also contributed highly. Fate…
the enduring power of Hamlet’s characterisation has affected personal responses towards the text. Shakespeare evokes many different and contrasting opinions of Hamlet through the way he has articulated the title character and also in the way Hamlet treats those around him and how Hamlet’s troubling nature affects his loved ones, for better or worse. Hamlet forces the line between reality and fiction to be reconsidered and reevaluated due to Hamlet’s characterisation, as well as a range of other…