Moral Ambiguous Characters Throughout Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the moral ambiguity of the central character, Dorian Gray, becomes more and more distinct. The story starts with Dorian being venerated by the artist Basil Hallward, and throughout the story the reader learns of Gray’s several wrong doings. Meeting Lord Henry almost straight away negatively influenced Dorian. He had started out blameless and innocent, but by the conclusion had been the cause of numerous deaths, all because of his selfish wish to stay beautiful forever. “His actions show a character who insists the soul is real, but loves the gaping chasm between the beauty of his body and the corruption of his soul” [ (Wilde 105-123) ].
From the first moment he met his piano teacher- Eduard Keller, he was quick to judge based on his appearance “Had he spruced himself up especially to meet me? I was childish enough … to think it likely.”, and the way Keller spoke. Paul puts the label on him that ‘he is a Nazi’ and doesn’t give himself the chance to get to know Keller when he first meets him. By the end of the novel Paul learns to appreciate the lessons that he had with Keller throughout his adolescent year and matures to respect what Keller had done for him. Paul illustrates love towards many characters throughout the novel.
Title of Work: Cyrano de Bergerac Author of Work: Edmond Rostand Plot Analysis: Problems addressed/presented in the introduction: In the beginning of the play we find out that Cyrano is in love with his beautiful, and intellectual cousin Roxane. Cyrano was a brilliant poet and swordsman, and any woman would have been lucky to have him, but Cyrano thought himself too ugly for his beautiful cousin because he had a very large nose. Rising Action or Complication: We soon find out that Cyrano has some competition in winning the affections of his cousin because a handsome young man named Christian is also in love with Roxane. When Roxane meets with Cyrano the next morning, she tells Cyrano that she is in love with Christian and that he is going to be in Cyrano’s company of guards, Cadet’s of Gascoyne, and she wishes that Cyrano protect him. Cyrano agrees, and leaves.
He thinks as people get old or grows up, they change and lose their innocence. One of the many reasons for his affection and love towards little children, because he thinks their innocent compare to the grown-ups. One thing for sure is that, Holden wants to be successful as well anyone. "I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to someone I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
Nathanael’s literary style and theme of his stories were passionate romanticism and mainly dark romanticism. The spectacular author had many amazing works and so many popular books. One of his greatest works was The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Twice-Told Tales (1837). Edgar Allan Poe once said, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth".
We are reminded again with the ending to remember that Huck is just a simple boy who just wants to go with the flow of whatever life brings. The journey of life itself is half of the fun. The end of the novel brings Huck full circle almost exactly where he started as to stay consistent with the novel. As Huck made it clear he didn't want to be civilized he says the same about Aunt Sally were he, Jim and Tom are at the end of the novel. Aunt Sally is Tom’s Sawyers family where Tom and Huck rescue
Everette, and the viewers, think that his life will get better when the flood is over, that he will believe in God, leave the con life and his wife Penny will come back to him. Everette ends up saying that there has to be a scientific explanation for the flood, he stays a con man, and his wife Penny doesn’t want him because he doesn’t get her the ring she wants. This is another example of how life gets worse or stays as bad when we think it will change for the
She shows delight as she sees herself in the mirror without the birthmark on her cheek any longer. Georgiana feels badly for Aylmer, she sees that he is happy that he has made her perfect, but he has aimed to high for perfection, willing to lose the love of his life as he strives to create perfection. Georgiana then passes away as the last tint of the birthmark fades away, again leaving Aminadab in a chuckle. Almost as he knew that his boss’ obsession would cost him his great love. Georgiana knew what would be the most likely outcome of her husband’s experiment on her, yet was willing to submit to it to make him happy.
He has been considered as one of the greatest short story writers of all time and nearly twelve of his works have been recognized as being flawless in the literary sense. Poe grew up as a foster child, having a rough life, which has definitely played a role in his writing style. In his poem “The Raven,” Poe uses his Gothic writing style to write one of his most beautiful pieces, so how has Poe used symbolism, imagery, and to tone to support his reoccurring theme of sadness and death? Understanding Poe’s past would help know why he wrote the thrillers and suspense narratives that people seemed to fancy for. Poe was born on January 19, 1809 to two young actors.
2) Great Stories Marchette Chute, in the Introduction to her famous retelling of Shakespeare’s stories, summarizes one of the reasons for Shakespeare’s immeasurable fame: William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told comedic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hand Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story – comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales – and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.