Central characters

compassion during the holiday season. A young actor named Naomi Shanson played Oskar, and her performance was incredible. The play did not have many lines; instead, it had a lot of background music. Due to this, everyone in the cast, especially the main character, had to be extra expressive. Naomi did this amazingly; she conveyed intense feelings of sadness, wonder, relief and nervousness clearly, while barely speaking. Something that really struck me was how she used her entire body to show emotion. For

conflict, climax, complications, and denouement of the play all benefit from the wide range problems that Chekhov implants through the characters. In addition, the complex character relationships add to these events, without confusing the reader. These four events all rotate around the play's four main characters, Nina, Irina, Treplev and Trigorin. The play's central conflict is between Treplev and Trigorin, who holds the love of both Irina and Nina. Complicating this conflict is the relationship

Kate Chopin succeeded in giving a woman's voice to realism. While doing this she sacrificed her career. This seems to be a "higher order of feminism than repeating the story of a woman as victim...Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for the man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness, and art." (Robinson 3) "The role of woman in the society Chopin creates is of special interest and relevance. (Robinson 6) Introduction to Kate Chopin

1 . The main character, or protagonist, of I Am Malala is Malala Yousafzai. The main character of this work was very apparent, from the beginning it was obvious that Malala would be the protagonist. The title of the book is I Am Malala, and the book was even written by her. The whole book is focused on Malala’s life in Pakistan, as well as her struggle with The Taliban. The book is written in first person point of view, Malala’s point of view, and expresses many of her beliefs, opinions, and conclusions

“set in a bleak period of American history, it provides insight into the ways different members of a family cope with forces of change” (8). The characters that we see coping with life are family members which consists of the mother Amanda and her two children the writer Tom and shy, crippled Laura. The Glass Menagerie is a play in which each of the characters have their own ways of dealing with, and also denying reality; therefore, they individually live in their own fantasy world and the

Shakespeare's Presentation of Hero and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing Hero and Beatrice are the two main female characters in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and they tell us a lot about how Shakespeare saw women in the context of the sixteenth century upper classes. In looking at the presentation of the characters it is important to examine their entrance into the play and what first impressions the audience gets of their personality and appearance. Although

the reason that results to their downfall. Othello is betrayed by Lago while Oroonoko is betrayed by his own military men and later captured as a slave. Another thematic annotation of the two plays is deceit and jealousy which affects some of the characters making them get involved in some vices which are not appropriate. Lago sacrifices the friendship and trust that Othello had bestowed upon him due to the jealousy he had for Michael Cassio over the rank he had been promoted to. Also in The Royal

foolish and unlawful. At that age, it was believed firmly that women should be nothing less than completely loyal to their husbands and should joyfully care for any children that they had while their spouse was away, hard at work. Edna, the central character, did not follow this standard. She says

Screw, the governess appears to be a victim of circumstance. Some critics however, say that she is not without blame in the turn of events that characterizes the story. They claim that leading to her demise are certain character flaws, such as envy and pride. In categorizing her character as such, this novella resonates several themes found throughout literature. In Northrop Frye’s essay The Archetypes of Literature, Frye suggests that there appears to be a relatively restricted and simple group of formulas

Character Identification A lot was going on during the 1960's; there was the Gay Right Movement, the Civil or Equal Right Movement, the Feminist and Counterculture Movement, the Anti-war Movement and so on. Writing in such a historical period the author will most likely relate to or identified with at least one or more events, but the results in determining the central character identity can go in many different directions; it is a difficult subject to perceive—everyone, of course, has their perspective