Plot

“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin is a story of Sonny, a young jazz musician, who is addicted to heroin and arrested for abusing and selling the drugs. He later returns to his childhood neighbors after he is released from prison. Even though drugs remain central to the story, it is also clear that family, music, and struggling in life is evident in the story. Sonny tries to escape reality through music but is tied to addiction. The narration is perceived…...

The short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates focuses on the summer of the main character Connie and ultimately what happens when Arnold Friend goes to her house one afternoon when she is home alone. Arnold Friend victimizes Connie, a self-absorbed teenager, and it is implied that the story ends with something unspeakable happening to her. Oates drew inspiration for her story from a Life magazine article about a serial killer in Tucson,…...

Dramatically Falstaff's world of idleness, dishonesty, self-indulgence and irresponsibility is in direct contrast to the honour and nobility that Prince Hal finally achieves. By integrating him so completely into the interrogation, Shakespeare ensures that the audience is continually provided with an alternative perspective to the serious themes. Even when Falstaff claims to be a hero 'I gave him this wound in his thigh', the audience cannot dislike him because it has been taught to identify with his irrepressible humour and…...

Short stories often develop a theme in a short time frame. Their authors must do this with limited settings and characters. The short story Killer, written by Paula Goslings, contains many themes with the main one being deception. One of the ways the author expresses this is through the narrative convention of style or mood. In this piece the convention of plot is also utilised by the author to develop this idea. Characterisation is another narrative convention successfully utilised to…...

It is Christmas evening, and Nora Helmer has just arrived from Christmas shopping. She has a conversation with her husband Torvald that shows that he likes to act as being superior (while Nora obeys) and that for long they have had to struggle to save money, but now Torvald is promoted and they are going to be affluent. Separately arrive Dr. Rank, a good friend of Helmers', and Christine Linde, an old schoolmate of Nora's, who has not met her for…...

The effect is that we see Mickey's and Sammy's minds stuck in the past, as if they are still children. We think that life is not quite real to them, they don't believe it, it's just a game. This reveals that maybe, although Mickey is forced to act in an adult way, he still remembers his childhood, and is still a child inside, shocked to find that the game has become real. We, the audience, are shocked also, because this…...

Michael Billington, theatre critic for the Guardian, asked 'whether there is any reason to revive a play which seems totally offensive to our age and society' (6 May 1978). With specific reference to the last scenes of the play, explore the methods which a contemporary audience can respond to Shakespeare's discussion of the relationship in between Kate and Petruchio To many desultory observers The Taming of the Shrew might be conjectured as being exceptionally misogynistic, an intolerable illustration of female…...

In his Poetics, Aristotle considered plot (mythos) the most important element of drama--more important than character, for example. A plot must have, Aristotle says, a beginning, middle, and an end, and the events of the plot must causally relate to one another as being either necessary or probable. Character: A character is a person in a narrative work of arts (such as a novel, play, or film). Derived from the ancient Greek word, particularly when enacted by an actor in…...

Literature has elements by which we can examine the piece (book, poem, play, etc.) composed. These components are; plot, character, setting, style, structure, viewpoint, dispute, diction, foreshadowing and significance (Scholes, 1991) 3 of them will be discussed here further. The plot of the literature is the method the story goes, the line of the story, the way it begins, establishes and ends. Essentially, the plot informs us what happens in the story. The plot can consist of an exposition (setting…...

1. a) Character vs. Character: Mr. White vs. Mrs. White. Mrs. White forces Mr. White to wish for their son, Herbert, to come alive again, but Mr. White knows there will be a consequence (Herbert will come back a zombie, or such thing) and does not want to make the wish. 2. Character vs. Unknown: Mr. White vs. the knocking on the door. Mr. White doesn’t want to help Mrs. White open the door because he is afraid of what…...