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roaring twenties, with its opulence and superficiality, as every character stops at nothing to gets what he wants. Most of all, Gatsby’s character is the most interesting. He’s became an archetype in the literature of the American self-made man seeking to join High Society, and succeeded in it. Indeed, during his youth in North Dakota, James “Jimmy” Gatz was not content of what he had. Therefore, he created a life and a character – even a name, Jay Gatsby – for himself. He wanted to be rich and

by reason, discipline, and prudence, and another ruled by passion, pleasure, and love (I.i.6–10). Cleopatra, however, is much more than the high-class prostitute that the Romans believe her to be. Often considered Shakespeare’s strongest female character, Cleopatra is a consummate actress. As her first scene with Antony shows, she conducts her affair with the Roman general in a highly theatrical fashion, her actions fueled as much by the need to create a public spectacle as by the desire to satisfy

to other doctors but have failed to receive an accurate diagnosis yet.[64] House habitually rejects cases that he does not find interesting.[16] The storylines tend to focus on House's unconventional medical theories and practices, and the other characters' reactions to them, rather than on the intricate details of the treatments. House, like all of the hospital's doctors, is required to treat patients in the facility's walk-in clinic.[67][82] His grudging fulfillment of this duty, or his creative

Jane Austen “Pride and prejudice” Summary Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Though the story's setting is characteristically

this statement also makes the ending true to Jean’s character when he approaches the well too soon after the blast. The creation of a well is a skill that can’t be learnt immediately from a book. This is something that Jean is ignorant of despite past experience and is the cause of his death. To look at the novel purely from this point of view is very myopic considering the number of outside factors that exist. When examining Jean’s character in the novel one cannot simply look at his reliance

methods), so you can override only the ones you are interested in. ContentHandler Methods such as startDocument, endDocument, startElement, and endElement are invoked when an XML tag is recognized. This interface also defines the methods characters() and processingInstruction(), which are invoked when the parser encounters the text in an XML element or an inline processing instruction, respectively. ErrorHandler Methods error(), fatalError(), and warning() are invoked in response

out that not only is this sense of futility and dissolution present in Naipaul's fiction, but also embeds his travel literature and historical texts. Specifically, The Loss of El Dorado is certainly an existentialist history of the Caribbean where characters, plots and events are headed towards colonial dissolution and decay. It is not Naipaul's bad intentions and meanness; it is the existential pessimism and nothingness, this driving, psychic force that permeates his writings. In Naipaul's writings

Correction Sujet Anglais TS – Pondichéry 2010- 1- The Location  holiday  vacation  wardrobe  closet  shopping centre  Mall  flat  apartment  film  movie 2- The Main Character a- The main character is Mary Ann Singleton, she is twenty-five years old and she works as a secretary. She is from Cleveland, Ohio. (23 words) b- She is in San Francisco, California for an eight-day vacation. c- Mr. Lassiter is the owner of Lassiter Fertilizer. He is Mary Ann’s boss. d- Mr. Lassiter appreciates

(for instance the story of Dr. Weinberg’s mother). Role of the chapter. According to the beginning of the second chapter, “Overture” is supposed to introduce the narrator and “the scene for the story [he is] about to tell”, not its main character. Indeed, as we could expect from the title, we immediately discover the setting, Brooklyn, even before knowing anything about the narrator. However, we learn quite a lot about the man who is talking, even if we don’t understand immediately what

article studies the character of the "Stranger" in film in the light of theories and methodologies developed in intercultural communication studies by ethologist Edward T. Hall, in film narratology by Peter Wuss, and in literary studies by Vincent Jouve. The personality of the stranger is analyzed through a theoretical model derived from Wuss’s three filmic structures - the conceptual, the perceptual and the stereotypical - and Jouve’s approach to the analysis of novelistic characters. Through the