Character Analysis Essay Examples Page 50

With 37 plays in the Shakespeare canon to choose from, the chances of four American theatres staging one of his most obscure works – Pericles, Prince of Tyre – all during the same winter would seem awfully remote. But to listen to the actors who performed the title role, this convergence of Peticleses isn’t really…

All thress poems, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘The laboratory’ are about murdering innocent people out of the desperateness of love and never wanting to lose that one perfect moment. In the poem, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, a blonde woman is the vistim but ‘My Last Duchess’ is about killing the Duchess probabaly through jealously as…

The stories I am going to study are; ‘The Red Room’ by H. G. Wells, ‘The Signalman’ by Charles Dickens and ‘The Judge’s House’ by Bram Stoker. These stories were all written in the nineteenth century at the time of the Victorians. They were an extremely popular form of entertainment as there was no television,…

In the three short stories ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, ‘Lamb To The Slaughter’, and ‘The Ostler’, there are many similarities and many differences, for instance, ‘Lamb To The Slaughter’ is quite a modern story is was written in about 1950, but the other two stories were written in the 19th century, so the language is quite…

Arthur Miller creates sympathy for John proctor in a number of different and effective ways. The way I feel was the most effective, was the way Arthur changes our impression of proctor during the play. As in, in the first act proctor says “Abbey I never give you hope to wait for me”. This was…

When Elizabeth is charged with witchcraft, John sacrifices his pride in an attempt to save her – his pride which he held so dear, this shows the audience that he truly loves Elizabeth. Miller also portrays Elizabeth’s love for John by lying to try to protect him but this proved to be his undoing because…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a writer in the 19th century. He was a medical doctor and an author. He wrote several stories about a private amateur detective called Sherlock Holmes. The stories were very popular in Victorian Britain and still are today. He was a very good detective and always saw that criminals were…

Sybil Birling is introduced later on in to the Inspector’s questioning than the rest of the characters, entering the room in act two in a manner described “briskly and confidently” by the stage direction. She is aware of the developments of the night, due to her husband informing her privately, but seemingly unaffected by the…

Sheila Birling is the well-off daughter of Sybil and Arthur Birling, sister of Eric Birling and is engaged to Gerald Croft. She is described as a “pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited. ” Sheila is one of the only two characters in the play to truly change her…

When the inspector arrives the other characters are all very cheerful due to the announcement of the engagement between Gerald and Sheila. Gerald is a rich man and the son of the owner to a rival company to Mr. Birling. Sheila is Mr. Birling’s daughter and is a very attractive young woman. Every character is…