arrogant and emotionally and intellectually tortured. A Byronic hero is also a person who just appears to be loyal to themselves in their opinion and their worth. The character of Charles Bartholomew “Chuck” Bass from the novel and television show Gossip Girl reveals to create a character with Byronic characteristics of a man who had trouble in his childhood,…
high prices draws in the rich, which creates an extremely wealthy elite society that is usually displayed in the media, such as the television series, Gossip Girl. Although Gossip Girl is a fictional display of the elite, the author of the original series, Cecily von Ziegesar based the society around the girls she went to highschool with at an all girls private preparatory school on the Upper East Side. While the plots are very twisted and dramatized, there is something to say about having so…
Blair Waldorf - Character Analysis Ah, the girl that everyone loves to hate. Blair Waldorf is highly regarded as the queen of young society in Manhattan. There’s many things to be said about her, some not so nice. As Dan Humphrey would describe her she’s “everything [he] hates about the Upper East Side distilled into one 95-pound, doe-eyed, bon mot tossing, label-whoring package of girly evil.” Blair Waldorf was born a queen. Her family is prominent and well respected on the Upper East Side…
2 Broke Girls is a show that first premiered on September 19 2011 on CBS. In went on for six seasons and was cancelled this year and they had a total of 137 episodes. The show s about two girls who work at a dinner to make money but have a dream of running a profitable cupcake businesses. The two girls Max black played by Kat Dennings and Caroline Channing played by Beth Behrs. The other cast member include a asian character who owns the restaurant and his name Han Lee. other characters…
Liz Holt, Barry Fife and Shirley Hastings are three characters from Strictly Ballroom, who are artificial and believe their actions, either good or bad, are for the greater glory of dancing. It could be said that Liz Holt is ambitious, prefers to stick to the rules and will do anything it takes to win. After Scott and Liz loose at the Warathas State Championships, she tells Scott that she does not give a shit about his new steps. She wants Pam Shorts, Ken Railing’s dancing partner to break both…
The television program I would like to see an adaptation of is New Girl, which airs on Fox. New Girl is an America situation comedy series that first aired in September of 2011, where Zooey Deschanel starts as Jess Day. Jess is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. She is dorky and awkward; and she is comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys. Of the three male…
Sara Dahan-Roxin Teacher name ENC 2135 19 January 2016 Overprivileged Spoilt Teens “Gossip Girl here! Your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite (anonymous blogger, 2011).” Gossip Girl, a staple for milennial’s alike. This show has become popularized over the years due to it’s multitude of drama and scandal. Gossip Girl is a teen drama that revolves around the lives of seven teens living in New York City’s renowned Upper East Side. It focuses on five main…
Gossip Girl’s audience consists primarily of young adult men and women, a demographic particularly at risk for campus sexual assaults. As rape on college campuses continues at an alarming rate, Gossip Girl’s depiction of teenage sexual assault is even more troublesome. Fortunately, Chuck Bass is a fictional character; however, in 2015, a strangely similar figure appeared in real life. In 2015, on Stanford University’s campus, Brock Turner raped an unconscious female student. Thankfully, unlike…
6) Gossip Girl is a 6 season series that focuses on the life of, Dan Humphries, a teenager who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The series portrays Brooklyn as the lower end of society where the poor are said to live. A couple blocks away is the Upper East Side where…
simply wish he/she were. This may be because of the characters’ traits or because of the opportunities the characters have. For me, if there were any fictional character I would love to be, it would be Blair Waldorf. Blair is a girl from the television show, “Gossip Girl,” who starts off as a teenager and ends the show in her early 20s, all the while maintaining her status in New York’s Upper East Side. Blair Waldorf has medium length brown hair throughout the course of the show. She stands at…