Thousand Character Classic

have something that makes them unique. The novel Never Let Me Go written by Kazuo Ishiguro, follows the students Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy and their lives while living and beyond the “boarding school” Hailsham. In Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories the characters live in ways that limit their own individualism. Living at Hailsham students had a box of personal possessions which they called collections. These collections contained random items such as Kathy’s Judy Bridgewater tape that they bought…

Laura Mulvey’s piece, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, emerged during second wave feminism and the classic Hollywood Film era. Mulvey’s work has since received various criticisms (Torres Lecture 10) however, several of her ideas are still prevalent in films today –specifically male characters as active and female characters as passive (Mulvey). Mulvey theorizes, “pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto…

Before this course began, I used to think that acting was all about the individual actor, and how well that actor can portray his/her character. I thought that actors in a play work as distinctive units, and that if every unit can perform his/her character realistically and execute every line flawlessly, the final performance would be fantastic, and the audience would have a great time. Acting 1 has taught me that the art of acting is actually much more intricate and eclectic than individuals…

the isolation of man and his role within a community. These realities are not excluding of each other. The feelings of detachment that fall upon each character serve to further augment the struggles to be had for fulfillment within social circles and within the individual. Isolation is not only a disagreeable reality brought upon the characters, but it flows…

Fictional characters and real people must adapt to change when they face it in life. The way in which a character approaches and adapts to change usually defines his character. In the novels Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the two protagonists of each respective story are faced with change and must adapt to it. Each character is defined through the way he adapts to the change or adversity that he is faced with. Guy Montag, of Fahrenheit…

emotion the actors portray into their characters. Everything he did in this movie was done to perfection. He is most noticed for using using vasts amounts of handheld camera action and extensive and heavy editing. Element one - Cinematography McGann’s use of handheld camera was a convincing cinematography technique used throughout the film. McGann decided to incorporate this into the film so he can show the emotion illuminating from the individual characters. The Birthday scene set in the…

In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest, each character has a distinct alter ego that they wear at some point during the play. Authorities on Wilde 's play have described Bunburying as “the confusion and then the restoration of identities” (Craft 23). The first introduced is called Bunbury. After this first instance of role-playing, the name Bunbury, or the term Bunburying comes to apply primarily to the two male leads throughout the rest of the play, and to equate to a false identity.…

Fiction told in the first person is inherently deceptive” (1989, p.106) and this biased point of view obviously affects the readers perception of the story and how the message is conveyed. Any literature written from the point of view of another character would be completely different and hold another perspective entirely and would therefore show the reader a different account. A…

Freedom Quest for freedom is the most eminent theme in the novels of Anita Desai. Due to its importance in her works, it is bound to find reoccurrence. The quest for freedom prevails as the most powerful and influential theme and all the major characters seem to be striving for something with which they cannot come in terms with. The society in which they live and cannot go away from it leaves a deep question mark in their minds. They are in quest for freedom from past, present,…

“Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber and “The Mirror” by Haruki Murakami are both expressed as the struggle of the protagonist’s understanding of their own imagination and the identification of the difference between their thoughts wrapped with illusion and the reality, but having different techniques and messages. James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a book with theme of desire of freedom from the reality where protagonist’s not acknowledge. In the text, the…