English 1027F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Incest Taboo
19 Oct 2017
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English 1027 lecture 4 september 19, 2017. Review: the house has influence over roderick"s spirit. Character: the agents of a narrative, someone who acts, appears, or otherwise is seen to advance its plot. Protagonists: the person with whom we identify, whose actions principally drive the story forward. Usher: in the fall of the house of usher most basically it is probably roderick. Antagonist: the obstacle frustrates the protagonist"s ambitions. genre; they don"t develop throughout the story. Flat characters: two-dimensional, they represent a stock set of attitudes and abilities that the reader quickly recognizes as part of the conventions of the. Round characters: more psychologically complex; they have rich interior lives, and patterns of thought and feeling that can become focal points of the story in and of themselves. Their actions seem to stem more organically from the circumstances in which they are caught, and their motivations are not always self evident or predictable.
