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  2. Role reversal - Wikipedia

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    For example, the daughter gets more awareness about how her mother feels about and reacts to the role of the daughter. [8]: 116 The second reason is that role reversal helps the protagonist observe himself as if in a mirror. Through playing her mother's role, the daughter sees the role of daughter from her mother's perspective.

  3. Damsel in distress - Wikipedia

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    Still another example is Foxglove Summer, part of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series - where the protagonist Peter Grant is bound and taken captive by the Queen of the Faeries, and it is Grant's girlfriend who comes to rescue him, riding a Steel Horse. Another role reversal is in Titanic (1997), written and directed by James Cameron.

  4. Parentification - Wikipedia

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    6 Literary examples. 7 See also. 8 ... Parentification or parent–child role reversal is the process of role reversal whereby a child or adolescent is obliged to ...

  5. William's Doll - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Many educators, for example, object to using texts representing gender-role reversal in the classroom, whereas others promote it, recognizing the critical role schools play in childhood identity and sexuality development. [7] [8] A song based on the story was included in the 1972 best-selling Free to Be...

  6. Psychodrama - Wikipedia

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    Role playing: The client portrays a person or object that is problematic to him or her. Soliloquy: The client speaks his or her thoughts aloud in order to build self-knowledge. Role reversal: The client is asked to portray another person while a second actor portrays the client in the particular scene. This not only prompts the client to think ...

  7. Becky Sharp - Wikipedia

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    Similarly central are their roles as governesses, but whereas for Emily and the two Janes it symbolised class distinctions and the gap between the governess and her employers, for Sharp it was a means of role reversal. [66] Unlike Jane Eyre, Sharp is aware of the ways of the world from a very young age. [67]

  8. Peripeteia - Wikipedia

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    Peripeteia / ˌ p ɛr ə p ɪ ˈ t eɪ. ə / (alternative Latin form: Peripetīa, ultimately from Greek: περιπέτεια) is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. The term is primarily used with reference to works of literature; its anglicized form is peripety.

  9. Sherlock Holmes pastiches - Wikipedia

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    1988 brought Thom Eberhardt's role-reversal comedy Without a Clue. The film depicts Dr. Watson ( Ben Kingsley ) as the real detective genius and Holmes ( Michael Caine ) as a bumbling idiot who is merely an actor and a front man for Watson, [ 36 ] with a plot which cleverly mirrors the real life circumstance of Conan Doyle (also a physician ...