Voilà, j'ai bouclé mes deux notions, j'aimerais donc avoir votre avis sur the characters and their transformations !
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My notion is, the characters and their transformation. First of all I will give a quick definition, a characters can be flat, minor or major and developed with depth. He will face some transformation, which could changes his characters, or his way to live. So how do the transformation impact the characters ?
To answer, I will help myself with three texts, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Ghost by Paul Auster, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket and a poster from the movie The man who made a monster.
First of all, Ghost was written by Paul Auster and realesed in 1986. His literary genre joins in the postmodernism which make a parody of the research of sens in life that we spot in the modernism. So, the story is about a detective named, Blue. He's a private investigator and are employed by a man called White, for following his husband named Black. He becomes a kind of slave for White. It's here that the transformation appeared. Basically Blue is a detective, he has the capacity to recognizing an imposter and here he didn't saw that somethings was wrong with White. He became a doll, living in White appartment, receiving incomes from White, he finaly lost his free-will. We can think that this text is a kind of parody, tell by an omniscient narrator, because of the name of the characters which are colors. But, we can also relate this to the miss of identity, because names are actually a part of our identities. There is also a mise en abyme in the novel, that is to say that we have a novel in an novel. So, here, the impact of the transfomation is visible, that is to say that we have a "man"who passes from a private investigator to a personnal investigator. He became a kind of puppet and lost his family, friend and in a certain way his job, because he only worked for White and got his incomes from him.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was realesed in 1816. This novel enter in the ghotic trend, often describe as a genre written by women for women. That evolves with the times, going from simple horror stories populated by cursed destinies and monster to stories about the psychological aspect of human. The written style is really sustained as expected from the 19 century, with some specific word as bier. This story is about Victor Frankenstein and his wife, just after their marriage. Here, there is different kind of transformation, firstly, there is the death of Elizabeth, usually, during the nuptial night, people proove their love to each other, but not here. Vincent asked Elizabeth to go alone in the room of the couple. And instead of being loved in this room, she was killed by the monster. So she pass from life to death. Victor him, must face the death of his wife, him who was married one day, became a widower, because of the creature that he created. The monster him, jeer of all this misfortunes, because he successed to kill the woman that stole his creator from him. The transformations impact more on their life that on their nature even if facing death is emotionnaly difficult. I can also add a poster of the movie, The man who made a monster which illustrate perfectly the text by the gloomy and dark visual. We have different representation of all the characters, often Victor and Elizabeth are together and seems really happy, but the monster is alone and he seems to feel alone, he realeases a kind of loneliness and sadness.
Waiting for Godot was writen by Samuel Becket in 1952, this theater piece made a lot of noise by her absurdity. The litterature trend in the theater of the absurd which designe particular play and absurd fiction. To sum up, two men Estragon and Vladimir are waiting for someone who's called Godot, we don't really know if he's a real person. The scene takes place in an empty decor, with only a kind of dead tree. I think that the place was made like that to obligate the spectators to only take a look at the characters and their discussions. We face a meaningles dialogue with small sentences and sometimes some pum, like the one with the weeping willow. Here the transformation is really hard to find but if we look further, we can spot a change of behavior. At the beginning, it was Estragon who was asking Vladimir when Godot will come and after it's Vladimir who was asking him. Here, the transformation is more a kind of game, one asks a question, the other answer, and after they make the opposite, and we can say that this is absurd because if the other asks this question, it's because he doesn't know the answem, so it's and endless game. But, this transformation doesn't really impact the characters, because for waiting someone that you don't know you must be crazy, and it's what they are, crazy.
In conclusion, the transformation has a big impact on the characters, for Vincent Frankenstein it was his love who were taken away from him, so yes, this kind of thing impact the life. But sometimes, the characters are actually so strange or crazy, that the transformation doesn't really impact, like in Waiting for Godot. So, I think that the impact depends of the personnality of the characters.
Si vous trouvez des fautes, n'hésitez pas à corriger et je suis preneuse si vous avez des suggestions !
My notion is, the characters and their transformation. First of all I will give a quick definition, a characters can be flat, minor or major and developed with depth. He will face some transformation, which could changes his characters, or his way to live. So how do the transformation impact the characters ?
To answer, I will help myself with three texts, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Ghost by Paul Auster, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket and a poster from the movie The man who made a monster.
First of all, Ghost was written by Paul Auster and realesed in 1986. His literary genre joins in the postmodernism which make a parody of the research of sens in life that we spot in the modernism. So, the story is about a detective named, Blue. He's a private investigator and are employed by a man called White, for following his husband named Black. He becomes a kind of slave for White. It's here that the transformation appeared. Basically Blue is a detective, he has the capacity to recognizing an imposter and here he didn't saw that somethings was wrong with White. He became a doll, living in White appartment, receiving incomes from White, he finaly lost his free-will. We can think that this text is a kind of parody, tell by an omniscient narrator, because of the name of the characters which are colors. But, we can also relate this to the miss of identity, because names are actually a part of our identities. There is also a mise en abyme in the novel, that is to say that we have a novel in an novel. So, here, the impact of the transfomation is visible, that is to say that we have a "man"who passes from a private investigator to a personnal investigator. He became a kind of puppet and lost his family, friend and in a certain way his job, because he only worked for White and got his incomes from him.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was realesed in 1816. This novel enter in the ghotic trend, often describe as a genre written by women for women. That evolves with the times, going from simple horror stories populated by cursed destinies and monster to stories about the psychological aspect of human. The written style is really sustained as expected from the 19 century, with some specific word as bier. This story is about Victor Frankenstein and his wife, just after their marriage. Here, there is different kind of transformation, firstly, there is the death of Elizabeth, usually, during the nuptial night, people proove their love to each other, but not here. Vincent asked Elizabeth to go alone in the room of the couple. And instead of being loved in this room, she was killed by the monster. So she pass from life to death. Victor him, must face the death of his wife, him who was married one day, became a widower, because of the creature that he created. The monster him, jeer of all this misfortunes, because he successed to kill the woman that stole his creator from him. The transformations impact more on their life that on their nature even if facing death is emotionnaly difficult. I can also add a poster of the movie, The man who made a monster which illustrate perfectly the text by the gloomy and dark visual. We have different representation of all the characters, often Victor and Elizabeth are together and seems really happy, but the monster is alone and he seems to feel alone, he realeases a kind of loneliness and sadness.
Waiting for Godot was writen by Samuel Becket in 1952, this theater piece made a lot of noise by her absurdity. The litterature trend in the theater of the absurd which designe particular play and absurd fiction. To sum up, two men Estragon and Vladimir are waiting for someone who's called Godot, we don't really know if he's a real person. The scene takes place in an empty decor, with only a kind of dead tree. I think that the place was made like that to obligate the spectators to only take a look at the characters and their discussions. We face a meaningles dialogue with small sentences and sometimes some pum, like the one with the weeping willow. Here the transformation is really hard to find but if we look further, we can spot a change of behavior. At the beginning, it was Estragon who was asking Vladimir when Godot will come and after it's Vladimir who was asking him. Here, the transformation is more a kind of game, one asks a question, the other answer, and after they make the opposite, and we can say that this is absurd because if the other asks this question, it's because he doesn't know the answem, so it's and endless game. But, this transformation doesn't really impact the characters, because for waiting someone that you don't know you must be crazy, and it's what they are, crazy.
In conclusion, the transformation has a big impact on the characters, for Vincent Frankenstein it was his love who were taken away from him, so yes, this kind of thing impact the life. But sometimes, the characters are actually so strange or crazy, that the transformation doesn't really impact, like in Waiting for Godot. So, I think that the impact depends of the personnality of the characters.