Essays on Protagonist

In Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber and other stories’ Carter looks at women protagonists and puts them in first person narratives, looking at the women’s perspective in her interpretation of childhood fairy-tale stories. Carter was called ‘One of Britain’s most original and disturbing writers’. She presents…

The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol is a book that tell us the story of Akaviy Akakievich, which is a man that works as a copying clerk in a department that the author don’t mention the name; this man loves his work, he enjoys copying every…

Psychoanalysis is a theory about the human mind. Psychoanalytic the concept is prevalent in our everyday life, and criticism related to these is psychoanalytical critics. It came into being during the 1920s. This criticism can be understood as emerging from the romantic view that Literature…

What Is Reality? In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” the story takes place during the Civil War era and the protagonist is named Peyton Farquhar; he is a man who lives in the south and is confederate supporter who owns an immense quantity of…

Eccentric is the New Black Although many people have been brainwashed into thinking that it is better to mold yourself into society’s version of acceptable than to be unique, Tim Burton proves time and time again that it is more important to be original and…

In what way does the writing style in The Yellow Wallpaper explain the protagonist’s insanity? The Yellow Wallpaper is written in first person narration in the form of a diary. Although the narration and the writing point of view is fixed, there are still changes…

Lily is the main character, protagonist, and narrator of her story. She is a fourteen year old white teenager growing up in Sylvan, South Carolina. When Lily first appears, she is beaten down, and punished by her father. At age four, Lily killed her mother…

Since the time of the Brothers Grimm, fairy tales have evolved tremendously and have not only been enjoyed, but also utilized and modified. Fairy tales were used in classrooms to teach young children to follow the desirable and favored behavior emitted by the protagonists, along…

Name: Tara Tran “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish” (Michelle Obama). According to Michelle Obama, woman can do everything even though they are in the hardest situations. The protagonist, Mary Beth Latham in the novel Every Last One written by…

Inman from Cold Mountain acts as Odysseus’ protégé due to the several similarities they share within their origin stories and the events they encounter during their journey; in company with the similarities, Charles Frazier presented Inman with his own personality and a slightly different conclusion…

The figure of the “hero” has been treated in many ways, but almost always from the same point of view; a hero is that person who performs an extraordinary and beneficial feat for others, this hero perform good actions to protect and to benefit the…

The definition of a bildungsroman is “a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist”. Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, and Scout Finch are all great candidates, but what about Earl Jackson? Throughout the novel, Me, Earl and The Dying…

The book ‘Nervous Conditions’ focuses on the struggles which woman have to face in Rhodesia and how colonialism has affected their lives. Dangarembga brings to light the challenges women have to combat including their inferior status in society in comparison to men. The title of…

Nagy’s protagonist represents the contemporary individual who is characterized for “dependence on the vicarious warmth provided by others combined with a fear of dependence, a sense of inner emptiness and boundless repressed raged”. The absence of interpersonal relations and the belief that a luxurious life…

In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold Spirit, Jr. was fortunate to have a number of mentors and positive role models that supported him along his journey to maturity, including some of his friends, family members, and friends of family members. Some…