Category: Character

Margaret Atwood is publicly acknowledged for creating works with enigmatic women characters and open-ended stories while dissecting the contemporary urban life and sexual politics. The critical perspectives that she depicts throughout the book will cause some to feel daunted. Atwood reveals a whole dystopian world based on the world we live in today and includes…

” Marmais van der Vyver is the protagonist, an Afrikaner farmer who accidentally kills one of his farm boys. Other characters in the Story: Van der Vyver’s wife and children, Captain Beetge, Lucas, Lucas’ mother, wife and children, etc. These are secondary characters whose role was to enhance how Marmais van der Vyver relates to…

Table of contents Introduction Analysis of Banquo’s Character Lady Macbeth’s Greed Macbeth’s Unchecked Greed Conclusion References Introduction The complex nature of humanity often leads individuals into a moral battleground, where they must choose between the path of righteousness and the allure of personal desires. This eternal struggle between good and evil is a fundamental aspect…

Table of contents Introduction The power of Lady Macbeth Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The play Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare in the 17th century. Throughout the play we meet a variety of female characters, including Macbeth. There are many scenarios in the play where Lady Macbeth has proven to be a powerful, commanding and…

Caius Cassius and Marcus Brutus are both main characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, and are in multiple ways are either quite similar to or quite different from one another. These ways are presented in both their words and their actions. Both of these characters shared a lot of similarities; however, in personalities they…

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in reaction to her own epiphany concerning the immorality of slavery, which accompanied the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law. Indeed, she developed a novel worthy of protest literature. With each character and scene depicted throughout the book, Stowe leaves no stone unturned as she appoints blame for…

Although Junior in Salvage the Bones is only 10 years old, his character not only is complicated but also provides complexity to the rest of Ward’s novel. His birth resulted in the death of Mama, which leaves the rest of the family motherless and alone to fend for themselves in the Pit. Without a mother…

In the play ‘The Glass Menagerie’ the audience is presented with three obvious main characters. Each of these characters, Tom, Laura and Amanda, has strong claims to the title of protagonist, but what hangs over the play is the spectre of the Wingfields’ absent father. It could be argued that his departure was the catalyst…

“What does sadden me is that, while judging correctly of their wrong-doings we should be so blind to our own” (235). Montaigne’s essay “On the Cannibals” is a criticism on how the ‘civilized’ man passes judgment too harshly upon others while disregarding their own actions. This is especially apparent, as he has read the accounts…

When Shane was published in 1949, it was considered a very unusual western fiction novel. Unlike other books at the time, the book’s hero was the title character. Still more unusual was the fact that Shane himself was not a cold-blooded killer. Instead he was a brave, strong, loyal man who only fought if it…