...Characterization in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and “The Destructors” English 102: Literature and Composition Fall B 2011 MLA Thesis Successfully forming your characters in fiction stories sets the basis for the story to unfold. In D.H Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Graham Greene’s “ The Destructors” we can picture the two main characters and their perspective roles in the stories. However, the way they are developed and their description, varies to some degree. Outline 1. Motivation: a. Trevor: Wanted to be the leader of the gang b. Paul: Wanted to help his family out with money problems 2. Conflict: a. Trevor: Wanted to be a bigger part of the gang b. Paul: Wanted to prove to his family that he was lucky, and to provide financial support 3. Tone a. Trevor: Quiet and devious b. Paul: Outspoken and good-hearted 4. Characterization: a. Trevor: withdrawn to leader of the gang b. Paul: Remains mostly the same English 102 September 15, 2011 Characterization in: “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and “The Destructors” Successfully forming your characters in fiction stories sets the basis for the story to unfold. In D.H Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” the tone of the main character is described as young and ambitious. His physical characteristics go along with this, and the conflict that he encounters is perfect for his tone and character. In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors”...
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...Note: Please look through resources very carefully. This is a controversial issue so some sources may have bias. Check carefully for the expertise or background of the writer or contributor. To LINK to any article, click on the titles in BLUE Websites 1. Adolescent Suicide in the School Setting [ ] - How school staff and students can detect and intervene to prevent suicide. 2. Focus Adolescent Services [ ] - Resources and information on teen suicide, depression, personality disorders and other issues affecting teens and their families. 3. I'll Stand by You [ ] - This is a site for teens and young adults who are suffering from depression, suicidal thoughts and self injury. Get advice or come support others. 4. Kids in Trouble Help Page [ ] - Helping kids and teens that are being abused, or runaways, or those thinking about running away or suicide. Includes emergency phone numbers, and helpful links. 5. Kids in Trouble Help Page The Kids in Trouble Help Page has helped many teens by being a user friendly place where kids and teens can find the help they need in all kinds of situations including suicide, child abuse, depression and runaways. Site includes links to all kinds of helpful info, and stories of other kids who have dealt with similar issues. 6. Let's Talk Facts About Teen Suicide [ ] - Information from the American Psychiatric Association explains signs and symptoms of teenage depression. Includes suicide risks, statistics, and what can be done....
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...objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked. (Eliot, 1919) William Shakespeare’s King Lear is considered by many to be one of his most powerful pieces. Its universal themes and messages that seep through have inspired many other works and allowed room for several adaptations. In his influential critical essay on Hamlet, T.S. Eliot suggests that one could “examine any of Shakespeare’s more successful tragedies…” and always “… find this exact equivalence” (1919). His term ‘objective correlative’ encompasses the phenomena of emotional reaction being created in the audience by the writer or poet or playwrights combination of images, objects or description which evoke the appropriate emotions. This balance of emotions inspired by a narrative determines the success of the objective correlative. Directors in film use the camera to produce and emotional algebra, through which a sequence of images added together form a more complex and prompt emotional reaction in the audience. This essay hopes to explore and discuss the artistic formulas used in Sir Trevor Nunn’s...
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...superb. The contrast between the proud and proper Malovlio and the drunken, stupor of Sir Toby Belch creates much laughter along; with the switch from the original script where the Duke opens the play to the sound of Fest’s voice certainly makes the film adaptation a riveting experience. It is the sort of comedy you can watch over and over again. Both Nunn and Shakespeare displayed effective use of technique through the use of non-verbal elements such as costuming and verbal elements such as language, respectively .Shakespeare’s mastery of imagery and Nunn’s use of visual and auditory appeal reinforce the timelessness of themes such as Love and Deception. Costuming is the vehicle through which the theme of deception is revealed. Trevor Nunn’s interpretation of disguise gave the audience a sense of understanding of his idea into the cross dressing process by using Visual Imagery which is seen through the Decepetor herself Viola .She presented herself as man or by her transformation name ‘Cesario’ by getting rid of her feminine garments, cutting her hair, banding her breast, putting on trousers with suspenders, a white shirt and jacket accessorising the complete look with a moustache. However with Viola developing a friendship with the Duke and also the constant time spending with one another made her fall in love with him,”Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife,’’ but due to her deceptive transformation it is a challenge to tell Duke Orsino how she feels which creates...
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...starts to regain his senses and learn from his mistakes. The character can be portrayed as someone who really cares for Lear like in the 1983 movie version directed by Michael Elliot - or he could be seen as a prophet (reminiscent of Tiresias in the Oedipus Rex) who only observes as Lear goes mad in the play shown in the 2008 TV movie version directed by Trevor Nunn. Critics and audience members (including myself) seem to prefer the aloof Fool because as Isaac Newatt comments, the 1983 version has a fool who is a ‘bit too pathetic’ on the IMDB website for King Lear and Mara W says that John Hunt gives a ‘fairly standard and slightly too foolish portrayal of the Fool’. However this interpretation also has its advantages as the ‘scene after they are driven out of Goneril’s house’ showed the Fool trying ‘in vain to make his beloved master laugh, and Lear’ trying ‘just as hard in return to bring himself to laugh at the jokes’ which made the scene more melancholy and tragic than it would have been with an aloof Fool. This -as Mara W says- ‘allows the relationship to Lear’ to ‘particularly shine’ in this movie version of the play. Trevor Nunn’s interpretation of the Fool as a prophet figure in his version of King Lear allows the audience to rely on the Fool (played by Sylvester McCoy) in the play as Lear does in the first three acts. The Fools most important quotes are highlighted in this version of King...
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...By considering the dramatic effects produced by action and language, evaluate how Shakespeare presents Lear and the storm in Act 3 Scene 2. Lear’s elder daughters have stripped him of his power and status, abandoning him to the dreadful storm. As his mind breaks down, he begins to see reality in a new light and to confront unpleasant truths. The style and structure of Lear’s speeches convey the king’s confused, violent state of mind. Shakespeare presents the audience with a man who is surrounded by anger, and a desire for revenge, but more positively, humility and a recognition of previous mistakes. Lear’s speeches in the storm, also reflect the movements of the storm. Lear’s opening line, is like a crack of thunder “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow” by using onomatopoeia On the Renaissance stage, the sound of thunder was created by rolling an iron ball on a sheet of metal, however Shakespeare is using Lear’s language to create the effects of the storm for the audience. Lear is the storm, his actions have led to misrule in the kingdom, and nature reflects that chaos. Shakespeare’s use of nature as a metaphor for the emotional turbulence within Lear, is effectively displayed in the speeches during the storm, “You sulph’rous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt- couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts.” Lear is encouraging the storm, to become even more violent and commanding the elements to bring about mass destruction. Lear’s phrase “oak-cleaving thunderbolts”...
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...Different portrayals of King Lear and different uses of colours and costumes in Richard Eyer’s representation of King Lear and Trevor Nunn’s King Lear. Martin Sasseville Ms. Sheri McCready Friday, October 3, 2014 ENG4UBd The representation of King Lear that was directed by Richard Eyer focused a lot on the motif of madness and deceit. Trevor Nunn’s representation differs as it focuses on the motif of illness instead. Through the characterization of King Lear and the costumes, Richard Eyer’s representation of King Lear portrays the motifs of insanity and treachery while, through the characterization of King Lear and the costumes, Trevor Nunn’s representation of King Lear portrays the motifs of sickness, passion and hidden disloyalty. The character of King Lear has a massive impact on which motifs are portrayed through the first scene. Both versions had some similarities but they were not as great as the differences. The main similarity is the speech of the Kings. In both versions, King Lear speaks very quickly as he disowns Cordelia. This represents the utter anger of King Lear and how he cannot even put his rage into controlled words. When looking at speech, quick speech is representative of nervousness or rage. Both directors effectively showed Lear’s rage through his quick speech. However, the differences are much greater. In Richard Eyer’s production, King Lear uses his body a lot. He spreads his arms to seem more intimidating and he climbs up onto the meeting table to show...
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...HOUSTON -- The waiting is one of the hardest parts for K.J. McDaniels. He has the athletic ability and smarts to play in the NBA, it's just that he has to wait. Last season, McDaniels was traded from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Houston Rockets for Isaiah Canaan and a future second-round pick. McDaniels didn't play because, well, let's be honest, James Harden, Corey Brewer, Jason Terry and Trevor Ariza were ahead of him. Veteran players -- two with rings, one a superstar and an elite bench performer -- were going to get time over McDaniels. "It's helped me out a lot just watching and seeing how the intensity is and how it picks up throughout the regular season to the playoffs," McDaniels said. "I have to be ready with the same intensity." McDaniels, 22, played in 62 games for the 76ers and, after the trade to the Rockets, logged 33 minutes over 10 games. He suffered an elbow injury toward the end of the season, limiting his practice and playing time. In the offseason, 10 teams were interested in his services, but as a restricted free agent, the Rockets had the right to match any offer. McDaniels didn't receive any offers worth making the Rockets worry, and he signed a three-year, $10 million deal. And now that McDaniels has some financial security, he continues to wait. "Still learning a lot of stuff, he comes with a phenomenal physical set of tools," coach Kevin McHale said of McDaniels. "A really good kid, works really hard. A lot of positives." McDaniels...
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...Essay on Florianne by Daniel Woodrell A horrific event may change life entirely. Even worse, an unsolved mystery regarding a loved one may lead to despair and restrain a person from moving on. While knowing the truth may bring a feeling of closure, inquietude and uneasiness may ensue uncertainty. The short story Florianne, written by Daniel Woodrell, tells about a father whose entire life revolves around the mysterious disappearance of his daughter. Even eleven years after she vanished he still hasn’t begun to move on. Throughout the story the reader may interpret the disappearance with different approaches. One may either assume that the daughter was kidnapped, or that she ran away herself from her home and the small-town-life. The story deals with subjects such as paranoia, obsession and denial. Fin indledning! The narrator of Florianne is Henry, the girl’s father. Daniel Woodrell uses 1st person narrator (kap.1), which gives the reader an insight into the thoughts and feelings of the father. While this type of narrator makes the story vivid and alive, the reader must be skeptical to whether or not he is trustworthy. Henry describes himself as a genuinely good man. This is seen when he tells how he suspects everyone he knows: (komma før citat, ikke kolon) ‘I might have given him credit at the store, let his tab ride till next Friday or the one after, carried groceries to the car for his wife, cut two pounds from a chub of bologna and shaved it paperthin the way he likes’...
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...was a champion of the world. He later ended his career when he went to jail at the age of 20. He lost his title in 1990. He came back and asked for rematch in 1997, but how did he become famous in the first place. Mike Tyson was born on June 20, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York to his parents of Jimmy Kirkpatrick and Lorna Tyson. His father had left him at the age of 2. He later moved to Brownsville, Brooklyn. He was bullied in school, but he then joined a gang when he was 11. Since he got into a lot of trouble, he went to Tryon School for boys. One of his councilor, Bob Stewart taught him how to box. He later met Constantine D’Amato and he wanted to make him a pro boxer. On November 22, 1986, Tyson was given his first title fight against Trevor Berbick for the WBC heavyweight championship. He won by second round TKO at the age of 20. He was the youngest heavyweight champion in history. He has a total of 58 fights He won only 50 of them. As his game was falling apart, Tyson was too. His behavior during this time was increasingly violent and erratic. He got a divorce with his wife on February 14, 1989. He came back in the ring and tried to win his title back. On March 26, 1992, Tyson was found guilty of rape and two counts of deviant sexual conduct. Overall, Tyson was a very good boxer who is still known today. He had some up’s and some downs. He won a championship a was proud of...
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...William Shakespeare was notoriously famous for the amazing stories he told through his plays, from Romeo and Shakespeare to Macbeth. Most of his plays have and element of Romantic Comedy associated in the story line. This is no different in Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night. Twelfth night was written around 1601-1602 and officially published in 1623. The first performance of the Twelfth Night is believed to occurred on February 2 1602. The Twelfth night is a romantic comedy for the ages, It revolves around a love triangle. But saying love triangle doesn’t even do it justice, essentially all the characters are in love with each other. it’s a story that I think could hold up in a modern day version. The story is about a girl name Viola who was in a shipwreck with her brother Sebastian, Viola is rescued by a captain and his ship. On the ship she is informed about a duke name Orsino, she learns that he is single and this intrigues Viola so she wishes to meet him and eventually marry him. So when she arrives she feels that in order to meet Orsino and get close to him she has to develop a disguise. So viola cuts her hair and becomes a young teenage boy name Cesario. Violas plan to marry the duke has one problem in it. The duke is madly deeply in love with lady Olivia. Lady Olivia is a pretty Nobel women, that every one has feelings for. The duke wishes to marry Olivia, but Olivia hates the idea and has denied the duke numerous times. And also chasing and competing for Lady Olivia’s...
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...Constructive Speech What determines the outcome of someone’s life? Is it the choices they make or is it the situations they have been placed into? Good morning Mrs.Gittins, mediator, scores, my opponents, my colleague and audience. My partner and I agree on the fact that Willie is most definitely not to blame for the situation he has ended up in. In Willy’s case the outcome of his life is based on the situations he was placed into. We believe this is due to the fact that during his childhood years a father figure was not present. Also, Willy’s wife Linda Lowman clearly understood that her husband was mentally unstable but she decided to turn a blind eye and deny just like the rest of society and pretend as if everything were okay. In the play, Willie’s character is a tragic hero and an unconscious victim. He sees the world around him changing and his own inability to change with it seals his fate. The audience learns that Willie strongly believes that success is not what you know, but who you know and how well you are liked. At one point in time Willie was a very successful salesman, when Howard’s father ran the company. Many promises were made between Willie and Howard’s father across that desk in the office. Despite the fact that Willie worked hard his entire life, and was rewarded very little, the promises that he believed in for all his years of work and strived towards fell through. Now that he is old and not able to keep up at the pace he used to Howard thinks...
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...William Shakespeare and Graham Greene both present characters as being both heroes and villains in the tale of the tragedy of Macbeth and the short novel of The Destructors. Greene portrays ordinary people who have both the capacity of good and evil. Macbeth is different as we have the character of Macbeth who isn’t clear cut as good or evil, throughout the novel his character slowly decays into a villain. In Macbeth, the first time being switched from the shadowy world of witches to the physical world of battle we are presented with the characters of Ross and the Captain. Shakespeare uses these characters as devices to provide us with an insight into the character of Macbeth heroism. The Captain, covered in blood describes Macbeth as being...
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...William Shakespeare is a popular author in Hollywood. Recently, we have seen several renditions of his comedies and tragedies brought to the silver screen from Trevor Nunn's THE TWELTH NIGHT to Baz Luhrmann's modern ROMEO AND JULIETTE, but few compare to the new staging of HAMLET by Kenneth Branagh. No other actor, producer, writer, and director has done the preeminent Bard more justice and honor than Kenneth Branagh, and he pushes this theater production to epic proportions. With lavish sets and lush costume design changing the setting from medieval to the 19th Century, this tale of a son's revenge for the untimely death of his father at the hands of his father’s brother delves into humanity's fundamental questions of: What does it take to be an honorable man? An honorable king? An honorable father? An honorable son? This story involves all levels of drama, including violence, intrigue, sex, and madness. The movie begins in the middle of a story. The King of Denmark has died and his brother is taking the throne and the Queen as his bride for the sake of the country. Two guards see an apparition coming in the night. The apparition is seemingly like that of the deceased King, so the guards callto Horatio and the son of the King, Hamlet, to confirm their visions. When Hamlet arrives, the apparition takes him away and demands that he put his father’s soul to rest for his "most horrible and foul murder." Alone, he is faced with the duty of exacting revenge for his father's death...
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...Imagery is very important in poetry. It is used to give the reader a visual or sense of what the author is talking about. Imagery triggers something in the brain that then gives us the ability to correlate a word with a sound, smell, feelings or even sight. Without any type of imagery, it would make it very difficult to relate with the author. Color imagery is used to trigger sight and make us visualize colors and associate it with the words either preceding or proceeding. In the two poems, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost and “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams, color imagery plays a big role in describing the scene. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Browning is a poem about nature and how everything is so beautiful at first, but it then becomes subsides and isn’t as wonderful. “Nature’s first green is gold”, this could refer to the sunrise in the morning (499). This reminds me of all the gorgeous hues of a sunrise and how the sky and everything the sun hits seems golden. It could also be referring to seasonal changes. When spring is around, all the flowers and sunlight look amazing, but when the flowers start turning into leaves and falling off, it is a little upsetting to look at. “So dawn goes down to day”, this gives me the sense that Frost is talking about the early mornings (499). Watching dawn turn into day is disappointing, especially when you get to see all the natural colors coming from dawn and then it just turns into another plain day. The last line...
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