Ophelia was not a protagonist, nor was she an antagonist; she was actually more of a catalyst for change. I chose Ophelia to study for this specific purpose. She was a young girl, characterized by her innocence and naivety and one that ended up dying before her full potential was ever realized. Ophelia’s main personality trait is a tie between her innocence, or her purity, and her perfection. She did what she was told without question, even when it went against her own desires, shown when her father ordered her to stop seeing Hamlet, to which she responded with promises that she “shall obey, my lord,” (1.3.136).
She asks her sister to bring Ian a letter, but when she gets back, she’s still got it. Ian read it, but he is ignoring Chrissy. He doesn’t want her to get hurt because of being with him. Characterisation of Chrissy from “Good Girl” The main person in the short story “Good Girl” is Chrissy. She is a pretty, young Catholic girl with long auburn hair.
She is seen as a carefree spender, whom doesn’t know the value of money or hard work. Later on in the play Nora shares her hardships with Mrs. Linde, more so to prove a point then anything else, she tells her of the loan taken out without her husband’s knowledge, in order to save his life. We then learn that Nora does have some sense of money, for paying back a nearly five-thousand pound loan isn’t a walk in the park, especially since she is keeping it a secret from her husband, “I’ve had to skimp a little here and there, where ever I could, you know. I could hardly spare anything from my house allowance, because Torvald has to live well” (204). Mrs. Linde then starts to realize that Nora has more of a knack for money the once thought, and that she isn’t such a free spender.
Mat's mother is described as a highly dynamic and cheerful woman, who isn't dwelling on the loss of her three children. The way she demonstrates her grief is by wearing black clothes, but it is not like her sorrow impacts on her behavior, or at least it doesn't seem like Mat is feeling her mourning in his everyday life. The first four years the parents are watching him very closely. But even though three of her children are dead, she considers the riskiness in the world as a natural thing, and thus Mat is allowed to stray off when he is five years old, and naturally is beginning to be active and curious about his surroundings. She can't protect him his entire life, and he has to learn how to fend himself in the tough environment.
They were the ones who brought the truth and beauty to the party.” (20) This metaphor is important in both describing Lucy as a character as well as describing the bond between Lucy and Ann. Lucy, like the hare, has an attitude of invincibility. She lives her life carefree, not worrying about things like paying her bills for her breast implant surgery. Her teaching syllabus is of books she has not yet read, and she is frequently procrastinating, reading on the way to her class. On the other hand Ann is more like the tortoise.
She picked on Connie for being pretty, “what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk” (225). Her mother and aunt always praised June, she was a plain, chunky twenty-four year old still living at home and was a secretary at Connie’s high school. Her father was always working, he was never home.
Tomorrow, When the War Began text response essay: Tomorrow, When the War Began, written by John Marsden, is a novel that shows us the kinds of changes people go through when they are faced with adversity, and why those changes occur. It shows us how one situation can affect each person differently. In the novel Fiona starts off by being the “perfect girl” in the group. She has been well brought up by a wealthy family. “She looked like she had never done any hard work in her life, never been in the sun, never got her hands dirty.” In the beginning she is depicted as being small, delicate and fragile but as the story progresses Fiona shows that she is willing to do what the others thought she couldn’t.
At first Dorothy can’t even recognize aunt Lucy, she has always pictured her as this kind chatty woman, but now she is cold and quiet. One night at the dinner table after a few glasses of red wine, aunt Lucy opens up and starts talking about Dorothy’s mother and her own life. She had apparently always admired Dorothy’s mother for her optimism and her childish way of hoping for the best. She talks about her own life and marriage and how she has been truly happy. The narrator Dorothy is the main character of the shot story.
We never consider that we sometimes need to take risks to achieve “the Golden Globe”. In the short story “How the Nurse Feels” by Greg Changnon we get to hear and feel the thoughts of a young actress whose life is a bit more difficult than she imagined. Main character is a young girl called Tess, a high school student. She works as an actress in the well-known play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, playing Juliet’s nurse. She seems to be a quite normal teenager, for example due to having problems with her parents finding them very dull.
‘Miranda, Prospero’s [teenage] daughter whose name means ‘wonderful, to be wondered at’ […] has no knowledge of other human beings. Educated on the island by her father, she is innocent and docile- but she is also mature and sexually aware’ (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Oxford School Shakespeare, Leading Characters in the Play). Her immense amount of compassion is apparent all throughout the play but especially in Act 1, scene 2 which begins with Miranda voicing her distress at her father’s ‘magic’ causing a ship to sink. Although her father attempts to reassure her, “Tell your piteous heart There’s no harm done.” (1.2.13-14), she still fears for the victims on the ship and uses emotive syntax to persuade her father to help them, such as: “The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to th’ welkin’s cheek, Dashes the fire out.” (1.2.3-5) “The cry did knock Against my very heart-” (1.2.8-9). She even goes as far as to declare: “Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere” (1.2.10) And though she feels empathy for those in the shipwreck due to her father’s sorcery, she does not lack sympathy for Prospero when he reveals to her the tale of his treacherous brother, Antonio.