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    Lighting style during the film known as Edward Scissorhands is mostly a Low key approach to make it feel ominous and suspenseful. In the film’s, beginning we start with a with Low Key lighting while moving rapidly up the “haunted mansion” where the protagonist lies, Edward and the fast pace makes it feel ominous. In that part of the film the suspense creates fright because of the the pace it’s moving and the dark lighting while swapping camera angles creating…

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    A protagonist by definition is a leading character in any given film, drama, or novel readings. This depicts which character is more prominent, and what stands out about them. While Shakespeare intended hermia to be the antagonist in A Midsummer Night's Dream the antagonist was in fact puck, puck was the fairy playing tricks on everyone, doing obrions bidding. While in the movie the antagonist was a tie between puck and bottom, bottom was turned into a donkey and talking to titania, while…

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    Paulos Ioannides and in “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez, the dilemma of choosing whether to kill or not and the circumstantial pressure induces internal conflict leading to the struggle of morality. Due to this internal conflict by the protagonists, the stories result in contrasting endings. Unfortunately, the main character of Gregory decides to press the trigger whereas the barber couldn’t bring himself to cross his moral line and commit a cold-blooded murder. This proves how…

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    standard. Women can also be the heroine in the story with characteristic of being intelligent, strong, and independent. The new standard that had been set had broadened up the variety and quality that the crime fiction has to offer, for the detectives/protagonists in the novels aren’t only men with similar characteristic, but women can also be the…

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    1. For years, throughout different stages of the unnamed male narrator’s life, he remains in love of Avey, which is also the title of one of Toomer’s short story in Cane. Avey neglects him because she is only interested in wealthy men. She has no interest in furthering her education all because of her “downright laziness (Toomer 61), and, in fact, she has no other aspiration other than to squeeze each penny from her men’s pocket. After the narrator moves to college, he “decides to forget her”…

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    Similar settings and different decisions of Ann and Zeinat In life, people come across situations that require them to make risky decisions that may impact their life. Making life changing decisions are portrayed in both stories, by the protagonists Ann from “The Painted Door” and Zeinat from “The Ghobashi Household”. Ann from “The Painted Door” is a farmer’s wife who is dealing with loneliness thus, decides to cheat on her husband with her neighbour, which leads to a tragic end. Zeinat from…

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    story, Miss Moore and Sylvia continuously challenge each other’s views; therefore, Miss Moore assumes the position of the antagonist, leaving Sylvia to be the protagonist. Both characters have significant roles in the story; but,…

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    survival stories, the protagonist is placed in an extreme environment that requires plenty of motivation, not only to sustain oneself but to also mature mentally, emotionally and physically. While Martel’s Life Of Pi and Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” both feature protagonists on the edge of insanity during their struggle for survival, Martel’s protagonist has more motivation to survive and develops as a character throughout the story, whereas Hemingway’s protagonist shows no motivation…

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    characters come and go. Some live and some die but who is the center of all the action in the novel? In my own opinion Perry is the protagonist of the book. A protagonist is the leading character, one of the most prominent figures in a real situation and a major character to a book and isn 't always a good guy or a hero that is exactly what Perry is in this novel the protagonist. This book zeros in on Perry and his past life more than anybody else in the book. We find out about his past life…

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    Liam O’Flaherty manipulates figurative language in his writing style to allow the reader vivid insight into the tumultuous realm of the protagonist. O’Flaherty demonstrates the devices of personification and simile to illustrate a scene that entails, “Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared. Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on a lone farm” (437). O’Flaherty appears keen on describing the…

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