Guy Montag: Hero or Villain? In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian society Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag, the protagonist, struggles with finding a meaning for himself. Montag’s rash actions consequently put his and other people around him, lives in jeopardy. Montag is a fireman who is hiding books; he has a strong nostalgia for learning the history of his world, and he wants to learn to put his dreams into actions. In our society fireman extinguish fires, but in Bradbury’s dystopian society they ignite them
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In the play Othello, Iago creates a plot against most characters after his close friend Othello appoints Cassio as a lieutenant instead of himself. This creates a spiral of emotions leading Iago to become very manipulative and hurting most if not all the main characters in the play. Iago's belief in hurting those who have done him wrong and have made him jealous with revenge, resulting in him ruining the trust of relationships between characters. As a result of this, Iago has ruined the relationships
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1. In the play “Death of a Salesman” the character I identify most with is the wife Linda. Linda is the peace keeper of the play. Like Linda I’m a wife and mother. Linda defends the boys to their farther as Willy says,” How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life?” Willy is talking about his son Biff that he is an unsuccessful man “yet to make thirty-five dollars a week”. As Willy speaks negatively about his son Biff, Linda quickly defends him “He’s finding himself” she tells her husband. Linda
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In my point of view I think that Jackson was a good president. Also, rather than being a villain I thought that he was a hero Jackson wasn’t born with privileges. He was extremely poor. But, he grew up with more advantages than his two older brothers. His mother, Elizabeth Jackson, struggled to send him to better schools than the common backcountry schools. Andrew was a mischievous kid growing up. He was hot-tempered, and found delight in frightening and bullying other children. Andrew Jackson didn’t
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seagulls wheeled lazily over the rooftops, uttering the usual morning cries. The air smelled of salt and dead fish.” Page 145 SLICE 3 Alex Rider, the hero and main character of Stormbreaker, is nice, caring, and is an action-seeker, that tries to figure out who killed his Uncle Ian and ends up in a world of spies. Herod Sayle, the main villain of the story, is very spiteful, torturous, and wealthy, who is also an inventor and created the Stormbreaker. SLICE 4 The conflict occurs when Uncle
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his purpose in his poem. The first that we shall look at is his set up of conflict. Catullus starts the main story with Ariadne having already been faulted and abandoned on the shore. He sets up the story so that you know that the “hero” of the story is in fact a villain as well. The images he uses gives the idea that this woman is abandoned with nothing. Even her clothes leave her, she stands there totally naked and vulnerable, the last thing she has is the gods. Even this story is somewhat of
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In a lot of stories, there is a protagonist and antagonist, one is the villain while the other is the hero. Prince Hamlet is the protagonist. At the beginning of the story, he is around 30 years old. He comes back home to Denmark after his studies in Germany. When he came home he learned that his father has died. If this isn't bad enough his mother becomes close to a man and decide to marry him. Queen Gertrude marries Claudius, who is Hamlet's uncle but now Claudius is the King of Denmark.This shifted
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sickness, regret and countless other hardships. The modern anti-hero has faced these struggles and they’ve found a way to turn these struggles into a drive for good.” What was once a simple story about a basic man triumphantly defeating a villain to get the girl has transformed into a more humanized and truthful story about one's struggles and losses that has changed them both mentally and physically. This was the birth of the anti hero, a hero has good intentions, but with a tragic flaw, or a horrible
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Idea When Watching Kick Ass 2 Me and Alice noticed there were so many questions unanswered (many open Endings) What happened to Hit girl after Kick Ass 2 Uncle Ralphie was a loose end so he can be made into a valid badguy The hero roaster is rather small so integrating a few new characters many comic book issues to be adapted into film Put the issues into 40 minute long TV show miniseries if pilot takes off. one of the ideas was to get big name hollywood actor to create a small buzz about
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used innumerable poetic techniques and will inspire young readers to appreciate this period of Australian history plus teach them to love poetry. Also, the poem touches on a controversial subject that is still discussed today - Is Ned Kelly are hero or villain?
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