Characters by role in the narrative structure

Oram examined the role of the press in creating a commercial product out of the cross-dressers and shaping ‘a shared lexicon for the public discourse of sex and scandal’. She finds the articles often carried humorous tone throughout, downplaying the idea that these women…

overall representation for the bird means that everything in this world can change in a heartbeat. With just the right move your whole world can come crashing down and shatter into a million little glass pieces. In the play it also shows all of the characters true colors and their overall nature. The glass also shows Laura’s fragility with her emotions due to her handicapped life and not being able to do as much as she would like. Laura deals with a childhood illness that makes one leg…

The next role of Sarah Lund to be examined is that of the mother. Lund is a single mother of an adolescent son, but she does not provide the traditional model of responsible ‘neoliberal’ motherhood. Angela Davis purports that “although the ‘housewife’ was rooted in the social conditions of the bourgeoisie and middle classes, nineteenth-century ideology established the housewife and mother as universal models of womanhood” (1981, p. 229). Since then, different waves of feminism, and contemporary…

He interweaves his own life story with that of his narrator, so that fact and fiction become a complicated web of meaning. He engages the real and the imagined and turns the narration into a magic realism narrative in order to find his sense of self-identity. Magic realism also plays a huge role in Ana Castillo‘s novel, So Far From God when it comes to finding self-identity. The story traces the life of a family of Chicano women and the events that change their lives and, eventually, lead them…

Isaac Babel wrote My First Goose (1925), which Walter Morrison translated. The narrator is unnamed, although it could be Babel. The narrator is the viewpoint character and is homodiegetic. They utilise first person POV, both singular and plural, as they use the pronouns ‘I’, ‘my’, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ (Babel 1925). The author’s reliability is unclear, and the narration is subjective, as it explains thoughts and feelings. The narrator’s use of first person POV immerses the reader in the story, as…

Jenny Sharpe’s Ghosts of Slavery: Literary Archaeology of Black Women’s Pasts complicates the understanding of black women and uncovers the heterogeneous narratives that the historical archive, dominated by white patriarchy, failed to incorporate. She does so by using “literary archaeology” – the piecing together of history using unconventional literary artifacts such as legends, superstitions, and folklore. Sharpe delves into the conditions that necessitate blurring the line between fiction and…

(Engel, 1984). It is not uncommon to have men acquiring multiple wives in ancient China during the dynasty era. Yeh-Shen, was born into a family with two mother figures and one father figure (Yeh-Shen). This coincides with the traditional family structures that the society at the time adopted. The women in the house all considered the children’s mothers regardless of whether the wife is the child’s biological mother (Engel, 1984). Once again, this aspect of the culture prolongs the Confucius…

Isaac Babel wrote My First Goose (1925), which Walter Morrison translated. The narrator is unnamed, although it could be Babel. The narrator is the viewpoint character and is homodiegetic. They utilise first person POV, both singular and plural, as they use the pronouns ‘I’, ‘my’, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ (Babel 1925). The author’s reliability is unclear, and the narration is subjective, as it explains thoughts and feelings. The narrator’s use of first person POV immerses the reader in the story, as…

explore themes of emotional, social, and psychological imprisonment within the context of dramatic structure and theatrical presentation? In Fences, the physical barrier of the fence symbolizes various forms of confinement and restraint. August Wilson employs this symbol as a powerful metaphor to explore themes of emotional, social, and psychological imprisonment within the context of the dramatic structure and theatrical presentation. The construction of the fence is not only a physical…

How The Shining can be seen differently depending on the audience and the socio-cultural context through Performance, Narrative and Time ? The words ‘The Shining’ is most known for two simple facts. The first one entails its origins and the second one its universal success. Stephen King is well known for his terrifying and striking novels, and The Shining (1977) is definitely one of them. However, it is disputed that even with King’s well known recognition, The Shining (1980) became widely…