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Still, the Joker is such a popular figure that treating Arthur’s psychotic break as a revisionist origin story for the character struck me not as an act of humanism (as Phillips describes it in ...
In the creation and criticism of fictional works, a character flaw or heroic flaw is a bias, limitation, imperfection, problem, personality disorder, vice, phobia, prejudice, or deficiency present in a character who may be otherwise very functional. The flaw can be a problem that directly affects the character's actions and abilities, such as a ...
Poetic justice describes an obligation of the dramatic poet, along with philosophers and priests, to see that their work promotes moral behavior. [10] 18th-century French dramatic style honored that obligation with the use of hamartia as a vice to be punished [10] [11] Phèdre, Racine's adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus, is an example of French Neoclassical use of hamartia as a means of ...
Tragic hero: A hero with a flaw, mistake, or misconception that leads to their eventual death and downfall. Historically, they were the main character in a Greek or Roman tragedy. The flaw often arises due to the character's hubris. Despite the character's flaw, the audience usually finds them to be admirable or appealing at a broader level ...
Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by the American playwright Arthur Miller.The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in late 1940s Brooklyn told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a travelling salesman who is despondent with his life and appears to be slipping into ...
Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
The movie starred Julia Roberts and Grant as Anna and Will, a movie star and a bookstore owner who embark on an unlikely romance filled with hurdles surrounding Anna's fame — but who end up ...
Daniel Craig does not have fond memories of making his second James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. "F------ nightmare," he said, when THR noted that the movie was made during a Hollywood writers ...