In particular he is constantly playing roles and changing moods both when he is alone and with company. ... Hamlet does play numerous roles throughout the play. ... An aspect in Hamlet's situation that can also contribute to his role playing and as a result make him a complex and fascinating character is his youth. ... His constant mood swings and role playing could be his way of express his feelings and also showing the internal conflict he is experiencing. ... Throughout the play he is constantly changing roles from friend to joker to angry son, revenger, and critic and so on. ...

• Word Count: 1574
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Feste, a Clown I personally found the role of the clown to be the most interesting of all the characters in Shakespeare's "The Twelfth Night", primarily because he seemed to be the most intelligent and certainly the wittiest character of all. Although the clown's role starts out to be minor, he ends up being a very important part of the production. ... The truly ironic point of the clown's role in the play is that in his wit and intellect he makes the other characters in the production the true fools of the story, and also his ability, by being the performing fool, to honest...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Consider the different dreams throughout the novel and decide what functional role they fulfill. Raskolnikov dreams often in the novel, and the author indubitably implements his dreams to play a specific role. ... Religion plays an ironic role in Crime and Punishment, and many Christian themes appear within the novel (i.e., driver who whips Raskolnikov). ... What role does suffering have in the characters and in the novel? ... The role of suffering in Crime and Punishment ties in with Christianity and its themes that are incorporated into the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1095
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Time and memory always play a key role. ... Time and memory always play a key role. ... Time and memory always play a key role. ... Time and memory always play a key role. ... Time and memory always play a key role. ...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her role as the link between the white Americans and the Japanese is reinforced by aspects of the novel, such as her appointment of strawberry queen; a role of linkage between the two cultures. ... Hatsue, as Kabuo's wife, furthers her important role as a cultural bridge through Ishmael's struggles. ... Etta Heine, relative to the other characters plays a minor role; yet her minor role is that of the personification of the major theme of prejudice throughout the book. ...

• Word Count: 1123
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Characterization is a literary element used by the author to present qualities of characters in a literary piece, the purpose of characterization is to make characters credible and make them suitable for the role they play in the work. ...

• Word Count: 328
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Examining both narratives reveals differences in the purpose of the narratives, the similar and contrasting experiences and reactions of the two captives, how religion played a role in both experiences and the elements of literature used in the two famous works. ... In both Equiano and Rowlandson experiences; religion played a significant role in both accounts of their captivity. ... Both stories played a role in influencing the attitudes of the reader....

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An ancient theme and major characteristic of mankind is "Revenge." As long as man has inhabited the earth, retribution has played the role of a recurring vice for all. As a chief part of society, as well as a dominating motif in literature, people consistently seek revenge. Sustained from the beg...

• Word Count: 424
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both texts allude to the theme of religion and the role of women in society. ... In addition, we see these two composers discuss the role of women, sharing the opinion that women are valuable members of society and should be treated as such. ...

• Word Count: 1085
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Explore how your chosen short story uses the elements of narrative to [engage] you as the reader: Narrative elements are importantly employed and developed throughout a text to further engage and develop the ideas and issues behind a text to the reader. The Test by Angelica Gibbs has used such el...

• Word Count: 631
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Relationship between Phineas and Gene. A surrealistic environment, which the boys of Devon lived in, reflected Gene and Finny's abstract and hopeless "friendship". By approaching the piece of writing with an almost surgical technique, disserting its parts, eliminating the unneeded, and adding th...

• Word Count: 622
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Ralph Ellison's novel, "Invisible Man," the narrator is influenced by many. Although there are many acting on him, he becomes ambivalent to the two characters, Dr. Bledsoe and his grandfather. While toiling between which one he should follow, he finds himself in numerous situations. Finding hi...

• Word Count: 567
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ending of "The Things They Carried" finishes off the duration of the novel, with stories that concentrate on death along with the role of stories and memories in managing the burden of death on a person's conscience. ...

• Word Count: 685
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Children Should be Required to Read Weetzie Bat The quality of education for children in the United States has been questioned for many years. Educating children using novels about realistic portrayals of life broadens the minds of children by exploring diverse views of lifestyles to help eac...

• Word Count: 808
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We tend to think of heroes as imaginary super-heroes with super powers, or the heroes we find everyday in our police stations, fire stations, schools and homes, or those special people who have a vision for the way the world should be when it comes to caring for others. In the A&P Plot and Harris...

• Word Count: 912
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor, Baileys mother views herself as a respectable and wise southern lady.However, to the reader, her actions reveal that she is in fact another person.We know this to be true because she primps excessively, lies, uses racist language, and ...

• Word Count: 760
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The new dialogical form of the novel of the XX century assumes belittling of the "all-knowing" epic author up to a role of the story-teller alongside with an eminence of the hero up to a role of the objective author. ...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bullying plays an integral role and is represented in different ways and situations. ... Bullying is also illustrated through the roles of the Warden, Mr Sir and also from Mr Pendanski, mostly towards Zero. ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bullying plays an integral role and is represented in different ways and situations. ... Bullying is also illustrated through the roles of the Warden, Mr Sir and also from Mr Pendanski, mostly towards Zero. ...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The thinking that was being questioned by the Gothic novel was Augustanism; and without some understanding of Augustan principles and their role in eighteenth-century thought it is difficult to understand the purposes of the Gothic revival, either in terms of history or in terms of the way in which it offered a new conception of the relations between man, nature and a supreme being. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Journalism raised its head for the first time and the periodical essay actually played a constructive role by improving the reading habits of the masses and by educating them in issues like morality, religion, culture, history and mannerisms. ...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rip Van Winkle Analyzation encompasses the application of given criteria to a literary work to determine how efficiently that work employs the given criteria. In the analyzation of short stories, the reader uses a brief imaginative narrative unfolding a single incident and a chief character by m...

• Word Count: 1162
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With this edict hovering over Rushdie's head Haroun and the Sea of Stories takes a more transient role in his literary time line and covertly addresses many issues in the literary genre of metafiction. ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The thinking that was being questioned by the Gothic novel was Augustanism; and without some understanding of Augustan principles and their role in eighteenth-century thought it is difficult to understand the purposes of the Gothic revival, either in terms of history or in terms of the way in which it offered a new conception of the relations between man, nature and a supreme being. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate