Feelings Of Characters Research Articles

Drama during story time supports preschoolers’ understanding of story character feeling states

Inference generation, an emerging skill in preschool-aged children, is critical for story comprehension and often requires instruction and practice to develop. Drama-based instruction (DBI) is a promising strategy for supporting preschool students’ inferencing skills, emotion understanding, and overall story comprehension. The current study examined the effects of a DBI story time intervention on preschool students’ recall of story character feeling states. As part of the larger intervention, 196 students (ages 3-5) were randomly assigned by classroom to participate in DBI or traditional story time. After story time, students completed a brief story retelling task (free and prompted recall of the story). Recordings of students’ story retellings were coded for embodied behavior (i.e., gesture, facial expression, vocal change, and body movement) specific to character feelings. Embodied behaviors supported student recall of story character feelings and emotion words. DBI intervention students used more embodiment, specifically gesture, when recalling story character feelings compared to their control group peers. Finally, hearing a DBI story supported students’ emotion word recall, particularly for 3- and 4-year-old students. The findings from this study offer evidence for incorporating drama-based teaching strategies into story time to promote students’ inferencing skills regarding story character internal states and subsequent story comprehension.

Traits linked to sensory processing sensitivity mediate the relationship between externally oriented thinking and fantasizing.

Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties identifying and describing feelings but expression of externally oriented thinking (EOT) and difficulty fantasizing is more variable. In two studies, we investigated whether links between EOT and fantasizing are mediated by sensory processing sensitivity (SPS). University students completed measures of alexithymia, SPS, and fantasizing. In Study 1 (N = 700) we identified two clusters of SPS traits: a positive facet (sensitivity to subtle stimuli) and a negative facet (sensitivity to uncomfortable stimuli). In the 499 participants who completed the fantasy measure, low EOT scores predicted stronger SPS positive and negative traits, which predicted a stronger tendency to mentally project oneself into the lives of characters in books, movies, and plays. In Study 2 (N = 600), the link between EOT and this same fantasizing tendency was again mediated by features of SPS-in this case fantasy proneness and emotional reactivity. We suggest that, whereas individuals who score high on EOT have an impoverished fantasy life, those who score relatively low on EOT and turn their attention inward are able to maintain stronger representations of imagined events in working memory (enhancing the likelihood that they will be recalled) and react more strongly to these events (enhancing their salience). Stronger expression of these features of SPS, in turn, increases the likelihood that one will develop a cognitive style that involves the application of imagery-based strategies to support deep processing of the thoughts and feelings of characters depicted in narratives.

Analysis of the Meaning of Repetition Language Style in Hermann Hesse's Der Steppenwolf Roman

Repetitive language style in romance literary works is not only used to create aesthetic effects, but also creates emotional and intellectual resonance that enriches the reading experience. This study aims to analyze the meaning of repetition language style in the romance Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. The research uses descriptive qualitative method with semantic analysis approach. The analysis revealed that anaphora is the most dominant language style used, with the amount of data reaching 40.74%, followed by epistrophe around 31.48%, and polysyndeton 27.78% of data. Meanwhile, the meaning of repetition language style includes strengthening the character's feelings towards the world, providing structure and rhythm to the story, creating nuances and deep emotions. Repetitive language styles in romances can provide new insights into how literary works are constructed and influence readers.

The Tragic Revelation of the Transgender in “The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman” (Anonymous)

The aim of this article is to analyze the tragic revelation of the transgender in an anonymous short story entitled “The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman.” The analysis is supported by the concepts of transgender and cross-dressing since the male main character who has a wife and two daughters gradually becomes a transgender preceded by becoming a secret cross-dresser. The library research method is used to collect the relevant data while the qualitative research method is used in the general analysis. The literary analysis is supported by textual research method focusing on character, conflict, and setting, and contextual research method focusing on the concepts of transgender and cross-dressing. The result shows that becoming transgender is a difficult process and needs much bravery. Since the main male character feels unable to face the consequence as a transgender, he starts by becoming a cross-dresser in secret at night for a couple of hours at the house basement. When he finally wants to declare in public about his coming out in a full female clothes, he prefers to present it as his last performance in his well-arranged death.

Existential Crisis of Yank in the Play the Hairy Ape by Eugene O’neill

The Hairy Ape (1922) is one of the well-known plays by Eugene O’Neill. The play is subtitled as A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life. It is a tragedy in eight scenes, of a coal stoker, Robert Smith also known as Yank. The play is said to be an expressionist play which deals with the themes like, industrialization, the clash between upper class and worker class, alienation and existential crisis. This paper deals with the state of the protagonist in the troubled world of industrialization. The character feels alienated in his own world and faces existential crisis where he tries to search the truth of his existence but confronts only anxiety, disappointment and alienation. The paper focuses on Sartrean Principles of Existentialism which places the character as the centre of the universe and presents the dictum, ‘existence preceded essence’. Yank’s tragedy is the result of his failures to find belongingness in the society where the world has divided men into two parts, the rich and the poor. As per the norms of Sartre’s philosophy, Yank struggles to find the aim of his life as he takes freedom to choose and sense of responsibility with him to find the truth of his existence.

Dominant Personality of Otto in A Man Called Otto Movie

Personality is an important component in character development in a movie. Each character has a dominant personality that differentiate one character from another which influences how each character feels, thinks, and behaves. The problems in this research are what are Otto’s personality traits and what is Otto’s dominant personality in A Man Called Otto movie based on Florence Littauer’s theory and how does the dominant personality influence Otto in A Man Called Otto movie. The objectives in this research are to find out Otto’s personality traits and Otto’s dominant personality in A Man Called Otto movie based on Florence Littauer’s theory and to explain the influence of dominant personality on Otto in A Man Called Otto movie. The researcher used a qualitative method and the data were collected from the scenes and the dialogues. After analyzing the data, the researcher found 6 traits for Sanguine, 10 traits for Melancholy, 22 traits for Choleric, and 2 traits for Phlegmatic. The researcher found the dominant type of Otto’s personality is Choleric. Choleric personality influences how Otto feels, thinks, and behaves in his daily activities.

Transformation In Virtual Dance: The Existence Of Dance In The Dance Art Study Program

The article "Transformation in Virtual Dance: The Existence of Dance in the Dance Art Study Program "explained the change that occurs when a dance work performed on a performance stage is artistically transformed into a virtual dance work. This study employed a qualitative ethnographic methodology along with methodologies from observation, interviews, and literature study to explore the idea of metamorphosis in dance works. Following the completion of this research, it was evident that there had been a change in the character, situation, and presentation of virtual dance works in terms of form and presentation. The character feels light and instant while the situation clarifies that the virtual dance work can be viewed anytime, anywhere, and under any circumstances. The dance work's form is realized through editing a video recording document

BİR ÖNCELEME İNCELEMESİ: SAMUEL BECKETT'IN "PING" ADLI KISA HİKÂYESİ

This study investigates the foregrounded patterns inosculated to form Nobel Prize-winning author, critic, and playwright Samuel Beckett’s short story “Ping” and aims to reveal his purpose of using these patterns. One of the remarkable contributions of Russian Formalism and Prag School Structuralism to stylistics is the concept of foregrounding by which writers bring a particular textual pattern (a phoneme, word, phrase, clause, etc.) to the fore by making it salient or deviant from what surrounds it to draw readers' attention to it and to make it both memorable and interpretable. Beckett, like many authors, takes two basic ways to foreground certain elements: foregrounding-through-deviation and foregrounding-through-parallelism/repetition. Besides its confinement to a single paragraph, from the beginning, the story stands out with the omission of punctuation marks, except for the full stop, sentences with no verb or with only non-finite verbs (the present and past participles), and the conversion of some adjectives into verbs. These deviant patterns enable Beckett to present a free-flowing form of (limited or impaired) consciousness and emphasize that the character is in his/her very last moment and s/he cannot move. By doing so, he invites readers to immerse themselves unreservedly in what the character feels or perceives. To reflect an instance of awareness or perception in an extreme situation where the character is on the brink of existence or non-existence and is struggling to find some meaning, Beckett also adopts other foregrounded patterns such as the repetition of a limited number of words and phrases with some alterations, employment of certain nouns in different positions in the sentences, and sentences that begin with particular words or phrases but end differently. Apart from those, Beckett offers another example of foregrounding at the end of the English version. Thus, he makes the readers aware of the fictionality of the story.d patterns such as the repetition of a limited number of words and phrases with some alterations, employment of certain nouns in different positions in the sentences, and sentences that begin with particular words or phrases but end differently. Apart from those, Beckett offers another example of foregrounding at the end of the English version. Thus, he makes the readers aware of the fictionality of the story.

When Memories Haunt: A Psychological Approach to Trauma in Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

This thesis is a psychoanalytic study of Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. The life of the Afghani people is captured in the novel and how the regret the main character feels for not doing certain things that can change the course of his life. The characters of the novel are haunted by their childhood memories. Being possessed by these traumatic memories control their subsequent actions and behaviors. How memories can traumatize these characters, and their reactions once they find themselves in similar situations that remind them of what they have experienced are explored and analyzed. The current study anchors its interpretative structure in the traditional, psychoanalytic framework, it aims to diverge from and expand it in different ways. It interprets the trauma victims’ silence or uncreatability as an intentional act of resistance rather than their failure to remember and relate their stories. Moreover, it reads the novel in the context and spirit of recovery rather than within the traditional trauma theory’s limited theoretical frame of acting out, madness, and illness.

The Relationship between Theme and Character in Fiction Movie Inside Out

AbstractTheme is the main idea or thought in writing. Meanwhile character is the actor who experiences events and problems in the story or fiction so that the event become an interesting story. There is a close relationship between theme and character in story.The purpose of this study is to describe: (1) the relationship between theme and character through feelings, (2) the relationship between theme and character through thoughts, and (3) the relationship between theme and character through action. This study used a qualitative approach. The method used is descriptive analysis. Types of data were in the form of sentences, phrases, and paragraphs related to the character's feelings, character's thoughts, and character's actions. Inside Out is an American animated film produced by Disney Pixar about emotional instability of 11 year old girl. Conclusion, in this study, the theme that is influenced by feelings is dominated by the egoic theme. The theme which is influenced by the most dominating thought is the physical theme, and the theme which is influenced by action is dominated by organic theme.Keywords: Relationship of Theme, Character, Fiction

Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

The Relationship between Natural Settings and Mood Changes in Frankenstein in the Ecological Perspective

The primary purpose of this study is to see the relationship between moods and natural settings that appeared in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, focusing on three characters: Frankenstein, the creature, and Felix. It is commonly found in the novel that the pleasant weather such as sunshines or gentle breeze turned the depressed moods of the characters to pleasant, lively emotions. Not only the nice weather, but also the beauty of nature played significant roles in shifting their feelings. These mood changes by the natural environments seem to be based on the author’s self-experiences of famine and starvation back then under the dramatic weather change after volcanic eruption that happened in Indonesia. Besides, the shift of emotion to the weather has its scientific and ecological ground. According to the research on the weather and physiological responses, serotonin secretion in the Neuro transmitters increases or decreases depending on the degree of exposure to the sunlight. Those living in the southern part of Europe are exposed to more sunlight than those in the northern part of Europe and therefore, they are likely to be more optimistic than those in the Nordic area who have relatively less sunny days. Throughout the text, nature plays significant roles affecting characters feelings. Interestingly, however, the novel shows little relationship between sound and mood: listening to a bird s song did not affect the character s mood. Interestingly, however, the novel shows little correlation between sound and mood: listening to a bird s song did not affect the character s mood.

Sympathetic Vibrations

Sympathetic Vibrations

Marital Realism: Beauty and Pettiness inMiddlemarch

Marital Realism: Beauty and Pettiness in<i>Middlemarch</i>

Indonesia Kris Representation on Virtual YouTuber “Anya Melfissa” Visual Identity

The rapidly evolving motion capture technology has made it possible to solve online identity problems with the medium of moving character design known as Virtual YouTuber. Spontaneous reaction in Livestream media can make fictional character feels real through a virtual avatar. As such, anthropomorphism representation can be used and Anya Melfissa is a Virtual Youtuber whose moe anthropomorphism of Indonesia Keris. However, the visual identity of Indonesia Kris is hard to find by most people and the problem is interesting to study using the theory of semiotics, anthropomorphism, and kris visual identity. The method used to analyze Anya Melfissa’s character design will use visual text analysis to identify its visual elements such as icon, index, and symbol. The results of the analysis show that Anya Melfissa’s character design has a kris visual identity which is at the level of thirdness in Peirce’s semiotics theory. The conclusion obtained from the kris representation in Anya Melfissa’s character design is proven to exist and requires a deeper level of understanding of Indonesian kris itself.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude as a Metaphor of Reality in a Magical Realist Way

In literature, writers work with magic, their works treat magic as a force that is acquired through studying books and also to depict their real life in a “magical realist ”way. Magical Realism is commonly associated with Latino American literature. Authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) used magical realist techniques to propelled Latin American literature to the front stage of the world literature. The present paper is an attempt to render García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude as a means of depicting the writer’s real life experience in a fictional narrative way. It aims to analyze how Magical Realism is presented as a vital tool in employing magic and fantastic elements with reality. Garcia’s novel covers the political and cultural struggles of the Latino American life. Magical Realism throughout the story, serves to express the character's feelings, offers a unique view of the character’s world.

African-American Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987)

This paper aims to examine the African-American identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987). The novel emphasizes the painful aspects of slavery such as sexual abuse and violence and explores the effects of the institution of slavery on the African-American character’s identity. The paper also addresses what it means to have a name and be free. The slavery institution does not believe in individuality. Naming is significant since it identifies the character. An analysis of the character’s identity and name will be studied since the characters have written their own stories and they are historically deprived of their humanity and language, a major constituent of the character’s personal and fellow slaves’ history. Therefore, the African-American character looks at the past as he/she longs for the sense of self. Moreover, the African slave is prohibited from being himself/herself or from belonging to a family. In this kind of institution, the African-American doubts the essential aspects of his identity, such as his value as an individual and the source of his manhood. Even after emancipation, the character feels that he has no identity, alienated and has no sense of self. After being freed, the characters try to reclaim their identities. The characters rename themselves in a way that they can now become ‘definer’ not ‘defined’: specific examples and references will be drawn from the narrative. The white founders of the institution of slavery commit acts of raping, an attack on one’s freedom, stealing and stripping the slave’s belongings and possessions, including his name.

The Realizations and Functions of Figurative Speeches in Novels Written by Prasetyo Utomo

Utomo’s novels are very related to the theme of religion and culture. The language used tends to be simple but still interesting and beautiful so research on the form and function of language style is very interesting. The purpose of this study is to describe the form and function of language style in the three Utomo novels. Data collection is done by heuristic techniques or read by repeatedly. Data analysis method used is hermeneutics. Almost all types of figurative language styles are found, but for the sake of effective exposure, only three data would be presented as examples of the form of language style and the function of language style. The three most found figurative languages are metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, and sinekdoke. The function of language also varies, starting from clarifying the picture, increasing the impression, shortening the narrative, and describing the character's feelings. Fulfillment of these functions with simple but beautiful forms of language style makes Utomo's novels have high aesthetic value and are easily understood by readers.

Literatura e políticas educacionais: uma abordagem social a partir do conto "Caminhão de Arroz" de Bernardo Élis

O objetivo deste trabalho é perceber no conto Caminhão de Arroz, publicado em 1962, na coletânea de contos Ermos e Gerais, de Bernardo Élis, escritor renomado de Goiás, possibilidades de letramento literário que pode propiciar ao leitor uma reflexão epistemológica sobre si e sobre o meio social. Além disso, demonstrar a necessidade de pensar sobre o ensino de literatura no sistema educacional atual, uma vez que a literatura deve ser voltada para o processo de humanização do ser humano (CÂNDIDO, 1995). A análise se refere especificamente a um estudo sociológico confrontada com objeto da pesquisa: o conto. A narrativa envolve uma personagem que busca na cidade de Anápolis-GO a irmã desparecida. Ela é uma sertaneja e em sua primeira aparição está na carroceria de um caminhão com uma carga de arroz, as pessoas da cidade confundem a protagonista com uma das sacas e totalmente desajeitada desembarca procurando informação a respeito de sua parente que não vê por muito tempo. Há em sua busca frustrada o sofrimento com zombarias e desprezo das pessoas da cidade e, ainda, a personagem sente tristeza e amargura por se ver em um enorme espelho e não conseguir se reconhecer nele. A trama aponta uma reflexão em relação ao confronto meio rural e cidade e a à disparidade social marcante da história de Goiás, configurada pela forma de menosprezo de como se dão as relações entre os citadinos e os ‘roceiros’. Por fim, a obra assume um caráter universal dada a angústia social da personagem que acaba por representar o ser humano de uma forma geral. Tais observações são pressupostos para a contextualização do ensino de literatura na atualidade.

All My Sons

All My Sons