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    The protagonist of the story is unnamed. It has been a couple of years since she finished high school so she is probably in her twenties maybe 21 or 22. The text makes it seem like she is quite alone; there are no friends or interaction with other people besides her family. However, the Ford salesman’s multiple proposals might argue that this postulate could be wrong. The protagonist doesn’t have any willpower. She isn’t even able to ask how much the ticket to Hollywood cost. She even becomes nervous

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    Crime and Punishment and the Theme of the Double The theme of the double plays a key role in the literature of the Victorian era. This era, indeed, has been itself a period of contradictions. The Industrial revolution, in fact profoundly reshaped the Western society. The cities grew disorderly. Factories were built and large suburban areas turned into slums: places where diseases, hunger and poverty spread among the working class. While half of the population was dying and suffering, the upper

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    Many stories and tragedies seem to follow a protagonist that is, in fact, a secondary character. Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” is no exception to this rule, even though Willy Loman is the character the reader follows, most of the story relies in Biff Loman, this is easily noticeable throughout the changes Biff suffers across the play in contrast with Willy, the epiphany Biff has, and how the reader can feel more identified with Biff than with Willy. Even though Willy Loman guides the

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    Antagonist? Protagonist? In every fictional book, there are a lot of antagonists and protagonists, but are antagonists always bad? Or are protagonists always good? I want to prove that not all antagonists are bad, and shouldn’t be hated all the time. For example, Darth Vader is a dynamic character that changes throughout the whole book. Is he always bad? No, he saved his son, whom is the protagonist of the story. The character who I want to talk about is Ava Paige. Ava Paige is a female character

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    The Walt Disney Corporation is a well-known entertainment industry that has been around since 1923. Disney has always been geared towards the production of popular culture for children and youth. Müller-Hartmann suggests that “the animated films with their cute animations and music are especially important…since they speak directly to the emotions and thus, the sub-conscious. [Animation] works its audience magic purely on a purely subconscious level” (401). According to Towbin et al., “children’s

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    Who Is A Romantic Hero

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    name of Robin. Robin arrives in Boston by the ferry and he commences seeking for his kinsman. Robin conjectured that his kinsman was a man of authority, yet whenever he asked if someone knew where his kinsman lived all they would do is laugh. The protagonist eventually finds his kinsman, but Major Molineux is tarred and feathered. The young man realizes his kinsman is not as well respected as he had speculated. His assumption is his flaw, which shows how he is a Romantic hero. Robin is a Romantic hero

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    In approximately every story, the protagonist faces difficult personal situations where he/she takes risks and puts forth a great deal of effort to satisfy and impress another character. In the stories "A&P" by John Updike and "Araby" by James Joyce, the main characters both have goals they perceive they must accomplish in order to impress characters of the opposite sex. The iconic image of the protagonist achieving their goal and getting the girl or the guy seems very crucial to every story , however

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    messages through a number of similar tools, for example, plot structure, protagonists’ characteristics and narrative techniques. So, when going through one of the above stories the reader cannot help recalling the other one. Indeed, a closer look at Margaret Atwood’s short stories “The Age of Lead” and “Weight” reveals a surprising number of similarities between them. First and foremost, each of the stories portrays a female protagonist who is not able to build serious relationship with men. Both Jane in

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    The Real Inspector Hound

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    dunnit” thriller play. In this play the protagonist has a goal/objective that he hopes to reach, to reach this goal the character will encounter conflict as well as a resolution to try and reach this goal. A protagonist is the main character within a play who seeks to achieve an objective and goal while undergoing the

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    famous play “Hamlet”. The two insignificant characters in “Hamlet” became the protagonists in Stoppard’s play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead” and Hamlet as a minor character. The author’s different perspective of Shakespeare’s two minor characters made the audience realize that being control like a puppet by Hamlet might have led them to their death. Throughout the play, Hamlet’s presence effected the two protagonists’ life. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are never in control of their situations

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