Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded showing Mr. B intercepting Pamela's first letter home to her mother. Pamela Andrews is a pious, virtuous fifteen-year-old, the daughter of impoverished labourers, who works for Lady B as a maid in her Bedfordshire estate.
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
Darth Wiki, named after Darth Vader from Star Wars as a play on "the dark side" of TV Tropes, is a resource for more criticism-based trope examples or common ways the wiki is inappropriately edited, and Sugar Wiki is about praise-based tropes, such as funny or heartwarming moments, and is meant to be "the sweet side" of TV Tropes.
Flanderization is a widespread phenomenon in serialized fiction. In its originating show of The Simpsons, it has been discussed both in the context of Ned Flanders and as relating to other characters; Lisa Simpson has been discussed as a classic example of the phenomenon, having, debatably, been even more Flanderized than Flanders himself. [9]
The story has also been seen as an exemplar of agrarian virtues like humility, modesty, and hard work. [2] Cincinnatus was an opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens). His son, Caeso Quinctius , caused the plebeians to fall into poverty when he violently opposed their desire to have a written code of equally enforced laws .
Everyman is the only human character of the play; the others are embodied ideas such as Fellowship, who "symbolizes the transience and limitations of human friendship". [ 6 ] The use of the term everyman to refer generically to a portrayal of an ordinary or typical person dates to the early 20th century. [ 7 ]
A character named C!Mot is briefly mentioned in non-Discworld novel, The Also People, by Ben Aaronovitch. Aaronovitch has confirmed that C!Mot is intended as a parallel Dibbler. A character called 'Clap-Me-In-Irons Daoibleagh' appears in the webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan. The Cretaceous conifer species Sulcatocladus dibbleri is named after CMOT ...
While outwardly virtuous and dedicated, he quickly becomes self-serving and cowardly when he or his power are in danger. Like many of the other characters, he formed a pact with a now-petrified dragon at the cost of his hair. [47] In Drakengard 2, it is revealed that after Verdelet put added pressure on Angelus' Seal bindings, Caim killed him.