Characterisation

using the protagonists. In Rainbow’s End, Harrison portrays the idea of the struggles of the Indigenous people as they discover their ability to have a voice for themselves and their rights of cultural identity within the white society using the characterisation of Gladys to prove her point. Gladys character…

is defined as “occupying and maintaining the interest or attention of the audience. Through the use of characterisation, narrative structure and figurative language, Shakespeare elicits a response of both pity and fear, thus engaging the audience in Macbeth. In order to engage the audience, Shakespeare evokes a reader response of pity and fear in Macbeth through the use of the characterisation of Macbeth. This is illustrated clearly in Macbeth’s first true soliloquy, in Act 1, Scene 2: “He's…

Shakespeare has demonstrated this through the characterisation of King Lear, as King Lear is characterised as an old man who is too hasty in giving his kingdom away, “Shake all cares and business from our age, while we unburthen’d crawl toward death.’ Similarly, Inarritu has demonstrated this through the characterisation of his main protagonist, Riggan, as he only cares about himself, “This is my chance to do some work that actually…

rights when inequality and discrimination were at a high point. The voice over of the character Abilene Clarke also constructs this perspective as she recites the laws of Mississippi and gives an insight in to the life of the maids. The use of characterisation through the character Hillie Holbrooke is also used to construct this perspective as Hillie is a real racists who clearly displays inequality and discrimination…

Marlowe still presents some elements of the ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ characterisation, however. The apparent ‘villains’, or at least antagonists, of the play are Lucifer and his devil servants, including most visibly Mephistopheles. There is obvious traditionally villainous immorality, threat and mania in the presentation of the…

As ticks themselves are parasites, taking the blood from another animal without a thought for it, comparing Grenouille to them implies that his behaviour is similar and enhances his characterisation as an inherently selfish character. When the tick metaphor is first introduced, Grenouille is compared to the tick as “he gave the world nothing but his dung – no smile, no cry, no glimmer in the eye, not even his own scent,” (pg23). As well…

alcohol. Both texts, that display the destructive nature of car accidents on families, deal with the similar themes of loss, identity and moving on from the past. The theme of loss is shown throughout both the novel and the film through the characterisation of both Tom and Leo. Tom feels loss in his life after his brother is sent to jail, leaving his distressed family behind to pick up the…

support men, more attractive. In The Bean Trees, the traditional male identity, represented as brutish, insensitive, and blunt, is constructed through the characterisation of Angel and his relationship with the character, Lou Ann. Traditional masculine qualities Angel…

and a friendship begins. Boyne has utilised the narrative conventions of characterisation and setting to highlight the themes of racism and hate, nobody is born racist and the harsh realities of war. In doing so, Boyne triumphantly illustrates that it doesn’t matter what race or religion you are you have the right to be treated the same and what goes around, comes around. Boyne employs the convention of characterisation to highlight the theme of racism and hate. Through the use of dialogue,…

as he travels the world in search of his lost love. Dead Puppet Society has re-envisioned what puppetry can be, throwing off the shackles of Bunraku and stringed puppets and using hands as a method of creating character. Argus utilises focus, characterisation, music, set, technical elements and post dramatic theatre techniques in an attempt to engage a 21st century audience. Argus successfully manages different forms of focus. Slippery focus in Argus has been utilised as a method of drawing…