Characterisation
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- Created on: 08-04-14 14:45
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- Characterisation
- Tennyson
- Ulysses
- 'Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole/ Unequal laws unto a savage race'
- Lack of contentment w/current situation, boredom
- Not a likeable character, describes own people as 'savage' and wife as 'aged'
- Doesn't appreciate Penelope's loyalty - egotistical - she waited for 20 years, all he wants to do is leave again
- Disatisfied w/unfulfilling life, again not likeable to MODERN audience, abdication of responsibility
- 'Drunk delight of battle' 'Heroic hearts / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will'
- Could be seen as heroic, esp. for Greek audience ( character from Greek legend - Homer)
- Final words of poem seem uplifting, determined, figure for heroes
- Could be seen as heroic, esp. for Greek audience ( character from Greek legend - Homer)
- 'Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole/ Unequal laws unto a savage race'
- The Lady of Shalott
- 'Tis the fairy' 'Weaves by night and day/A magic web' 'I am half-sick of shadows'
- Creates and air of mystery/myth surrounding LoS
- One of the few lines of dialogue characterises her as someone who is no longer content- cursed
- But only 'half-sick', not completely desperate
- 'dazzling' 'sparkled' 'burning flame' 'Tirra Lirra, by the river/ sang Sir Lancelot'
- Associated w/images of light/sun/warmth etc, positive, vibrancy contrasts everything else in poem
- However his song is a bawdy, crude Shakespearean tune, does not fit w/outward character
- Suggests not all he appears to be, deceiving, trivial
- 'Tis the fairy' 'Weaves by night and day/A magic web' 'I am half-sick of shadows'
- Mariana
- 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead'
- Begging fro death, seems hopeless
- But doesn't actually do anything about it, doesn't even kill herself, remains miserable
- Seems to be pathetic, no sympathy as she is passive
- 'The shadow of the poplar fell/ Upon her bed, across her brow'
- Frustrated, sexually + mentally
- Turbulent intense pathetic fallacy in same stanza - strong emotions
- Thoughts shrouded in darkness, angry
- 'I am aweary, aweary, / I would that I were dead'
- Ulysses
- Frost
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Characterisation = difficult, extremely ambiguous lang. used
- 'I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep'
- Is his journey not yet finished, euphemism for suicide?
- Intriguing character
- 'I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep'
- Characterisation = difficult, extremely ambiguous lang. used
- The Ax- Helve
- Dramatic narrative, first person
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Characterisation = difficult, extremely ambiguous lang. used
- 'I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep'
- Is his journey not yet finished, euphemism for suicide?
- Intriguing character
- 'I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep'
- Characterisation = difficult, extremely ambiguous lang. used
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Characterised as suspicious, doesn't trust his neighbour
- Through main characters' skepticism, (wrongly so), Frost challenges the idea that isolation is better, breaks stereotypes
- 'Do you know, what we talked about was knowledge?'
- In disbelief, uses the characterisation of the narrator to dispel stereotypes
- 'Do you know, what we talked about was knowledge?'
- 'Something to sell? That wasn't how it sounded'
- 'In time to keep me from suspecting him / Of really never having meant to keep it'
- Through main characters' skepticism, (wrongly so), Frost challenges the idea that isolation is better, breaks stereotypes
- Dramatic narrative, first person
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Enduring Love
- Joe
- Not too much regarding Joe's physicality as he is the narrator
- Affects how we view every other character in the novel, his opinions and retrospect colour the characters personalities
- Clarissa
- We start to dislike he perhaps after finding out that Joe was right, her behaviour seems less supportive - more accusatory
- 'You saved my life, but perhaps you put my life in jeopardy - by drawing Parry in, by overreacting all along the way' pg218
- We start to dislike he perhaps after finding out that Joe was right, her behaviour seems less supportive - more accusatory
- Jed
- Antagonist but not a traditional one, his mental illness causes him to become blameless - the reader does not want him to die, or have a miserable ending
- Joe
- The Great Gatsby
- Nick
- Like Joe, can only be characterised by what he says about himself - many readers find his nature pompous, dislikeable
- Gatsby
- Unreliable portrayal, Gatsby himself is an illusionist, his name isn't even Gatsby, where does the lie end?
- Also unreliable due to Nick's fascination and obsession with him - even the title depict him as 'Great'
- Social climber, lavish lifestyle, but in the end, he doesn't fit with the upper class world
- Unreliable portrayal, Gatsby himself is an illusionist, his name isn't even Gatsby, where does the lie end?
- Daisy
- Initially child-like, however as the tale progresses we have less and less sympathy for her
- Obsessed with triviality - money and material things
- Is she only loyal to Tom because he will give her security - old money?
- Obsessed with triviality - money and material things
- Initially child-like, however as the tale progresses we have less and less sympathy for her
- Tom
- Portrayed completely negatively by Nick, perhaps because Tom was the antagonist in Gatsby's eyes, and therefore Nick's?
- Many of the his descriptions are not from what Tom directly says or does - they are implied
- 'gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward' 'seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained' 'the impression of fractiousness he conveyed'
- 'he seemed to say, 'just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are.'
- 'gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward' 'seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained' 'the impression of fractiousness he conveyed'
- Many of the his descriptions are not from what Tom directly says or does - they are implied
- Portrayed completely negatively by Nick, perhaps because Tom was the antagonist in Gatsby's eyes, and therefore Nick's?
- Nick
- Tennyson
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