Year | Doctor Faustus | Wuthering Heights | Frankenstein | Section B | June 2015 | | | | | June 2014 | “Faustus is a gothic victim, rather than a gothic villain.” To what extent do you agree with this view of Faustus’s role in the play? (40 marks) | “In Wuthering Heights love is presented as an emotion which provokes violence rather than tenderness.” To what extent do you agree with this view? [40 marks] | To what extent do you agree with the view that the novel is a total condemnation
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(Elizabeth Proctor’s husband), who drank the chicken blood charm to kill Elizabeth. The entire situation in Salem was all because of Abigail’s obsession with John Proctor. Abigail is not a victim of her society. She manipulated the entire town in order to get John to be with her. She is a villain more than a victim considering she tried to
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War II. She also Fought costumed villains, they were often girls. The very first costumed villain was Dr. Poison. She was actually a Japanese princess, disguised as a man. As her comics grew, it became more populated with women, than men; The Cheetah, Queen Clea, and Giganta, just to name a few. It was another way that she could be interpreted as powerful, without upsetting the status quo. Rarely was she ever seen as someone that could overpower strong male villains (Introduction). Wonder Woman was
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Zinn in A People’s History of the United States , both of which in retrospect are entirely different on the way they betray Christopher Columbus. Howard Zinn’s ideology of Columbus as a villain is contradictory in nature to the American Pageant’s view of Columbus as a hero.
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In the plays of William Shakespeare, whether a comedy or a tragedy, one character that is often seen is a villain. This villain may come in many forms, but one of the most popular forms is that of the bastard. The character of the bastard is always evil, but Shakespeare also gives us some clue as to why they have grown to be so evil. The character of Don John the bastard in Much Ado About Nothing, and the character of Edmund in King Lear have many of the same qualities. They are both bastards with
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having approved of her transgressions (when it worked in his favor), Jason still goes on with his plan making Medea a victim of his inability to maintain is oath. Consequently, Medea herself becomes a villain in her search for retribution. Jason is greatly hurt by Medea’s actions; she kills Jason’s prospective wife and murders the children they have together. The true innocent victims are the bystanders, most notably the children of Jason and Medea, who are pulled into parent’s conflict. Considering
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Murderers or criminals are not born as criminals at first; they are all born as innocent babies; they start life as we all do: as a blank sheet of paper, ready to be filled with scripts of life. Here in this story, Perry Smith is not only a villain, he is also a victim. The series of failure in the development of little Perry has begun—at least—from his parents. After his father decided to have contraband alcohol business for living, Perry’s mother began to get drunk, and other bad things started to
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Holmes held his victims in building that was used still being used for public use. On the other hand, Gacy tortured his victims in the privacy
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How does Ian McEwan convey Briony in Part One of Atonement? At first glance, Ian McEwan presents Briony Tallis as an innocent child who simply witnessed scenes she did not understand, however what we can actually see, as the novel progresses, is that Briony is an attention seeking, self-absorbed, meddling child whose series of incorrect observations come to wreck Cecilia and Robbie’s lives. We are introduced to Briony Tallis at the very start of the novel, when she is preparing for cousins from
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“Chains” that meet all standards of common books. The normal categorization like the protagonist and antagonist, and the villain and the hero. The two characters that fulfill these roles are the two most impressionable characters with the largest personalities - Madam Lockton and Isabel. Madam Lockton is the villain, and Isabel, although she may not be the ‘hero’ exactly, is the victim of Madam Lockton’s temper and abuse. Isabel’s Decisions When Madam Lockton was in a bad mood of sorts, she would take
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