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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 ...
Description Examples Absent-minded professor: An eccentric scientific genius who is so focused on his work that he has shortfalls in other areas of life (remembering things, grooming). [2] This is the benign version of the mad scientist. Prof. Calculus in The Adventures of Tintin series by Hergé; Dr Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future film ...
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 ...
Christie Love - fictional New York City police detective from TV movie and series Get Christie Love! Inspector Lestrade – created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Judge Bao – Chinese judge and investigator; Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald – created by E.C.R. Lorac; Jules Maigret – created by Georges Simenon; Steve McGarrett – Hawaii Five-O ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The movie "compressed some things, but Pete was Woody's longest road buddy, so if Pete and Bob didn't meet there first, they certainly were there together," says Norton.
Oedipus, a figure commonly considered a tragic hero. A tragic hero (or tragic heroine if they are female) is the protagonist of a tragedy.In his Poetics, Aristotle records the descriptions of the tragic hero to the playwright and strictly defines the place that the tragic hero must play and the kind of man he must be.
When we were at the point of getting the film financed, we had a lawyer look over the script and the film to make sure there weren't too many similarities. I mean, there were things we had to change; for example, one of the characters in the movie was a baker, and there was also a baker in our script, so we had to change some very minor things.