Characters by role in the narrative structure

others. However, both characters selfishly continue their relationship, ignoring their marriages which is sufficient evidence to suggest how much of an inseparable bond they share. The appearance of Catherine as a ghost that wanders the moors of the Heights may also be seen as uncanny. Even the style in which Wuthering Heights is written by Bronte may be seen as being uncanny as the narrative structure is far from straightforward. The role of narrator often switches from one character to another…

the peripheral queer and the dominant straight to constitute the groundbreaking subversion of power relationships traditionally dictated by the authoritarian state apparatus in the 1990s China; while the latter one is to underscore trans-border narrative featured with ement of homosexual relationships and heterosexual ones, representing fluid and dissipated nature of human subjectivity, manifold…

Introduction Movies are entertainment and they tell stories about characters going through experiences. But what exactly is the content of the film? To find richer meaning in film, a variety of theories are developed to analyze films in order to understand how they created responses in viewers and just what they might mean. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) is presented by its non-linear narrative structure. It provides the viewer with the ‘clues’ necessary to decode the film and help them to…

From its opening account of his birth to its closing pages depicting his new-found freedom, Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself is characterized in part by its strikingly fluid, refined, and effective prose style. Despite his masterful control of language a paradoxical problem seems to subtly haunt Douglass's Narrative: the text's memorable prose is perhaps ironically too good. As an ex-slave autobiographer, Douglass was…

always been the perfect mirror of the society that has provided the literary artists with the perfect medium of expression so as to raise their concern and critique the society and its practices. A literary artist has the supreme liberty to create characters that represent the realities of the society. A work of art can leave a lasting mark in the minds of the avid readers or audience with the artist’s expression of sheer quintessence and aesthetic appeal that serves the purpose of being a…

this structured technique, great narratives can be produced while providing insightful views and commentary upon the world, whether they are subtle or not depends on the film. Not every film produced is meant to follow this familiar structure and some have broken away from the normal to make a film that is close to those who create it. Directors that have made various films have been known to reiterate topics within their films, but be told through a different narrative and bring forth beliefs…

text. Literary critics analyzed the text according to such elements as structure, plot, character, and so forth. Robert Alter published his seminal work entitled, The Art of Biblical Narrative (1981), a project begun in 1971, after being asked to lecture on the literary study of the Bible at Stanford University. Alter’s response to higher criticism is implicitly stated as he acknowledged the simplicity of biblical narratives. For Alter, literary analysis revealed the meaning and intent of the…

fiction to create a new genre. To achieve this, Sherman takes up numerous roles such as a model, a photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser; and uses a variety of techniques such as prosthetics, makeup,…

as well as projections of our mind. The narratives cannot be comprehended nor imagined without architectural spaces. It is this very architectural layer in movies that strings the narrative, the characters and the idea into a gripping plot that leaves behind a powerful imprint on the viewers’ minds. Movies exaggerate emotions and architecture is one of the prime media through which they achieve this. The spaces resonate with the emotions that the characters exude. These are achieved both…

characteristics, such as a fragmented structure, free indirect discourse and an epiphany. These literary techniques help shape the struggle both authors present between the inner world of the imagination and the outer world of social life. Narrative control identifies the focus of subjective perspective through free indirect thought. Whilst the representation of the imagination highlights the interest of the authors to protect the inner…