Main Character Research Articles

The quantitative aspect of foregrounding in the classical and contemporary short stories

The article considers the language means of realizing the quantitative aspect of foregrounding in the short stories by Chopin and contemporary flash fiction. The major technique of the quantitative aspect of foregrounding in Chopin's stories is stylistic convergence. Stylistic convergences in her stories normally include extended metaphors and phonetic repetitions. They are usually located in such a strong position as the beginning (in 8 out of the 10 analyzed stories) where the writer describes the personality and appearance of the main character. The use of alliterations makes the stories very poetical. Stylistic convergences in contemporary flash fiction stories are also used in the most foregrounded fragments in the texts, similar to Chopin's stories. The difference lies in the place of convergences: in the analyzed stories they are placed in another strong position, in the ending. Thus, the writers give or suggest their own conclusions about the importance of such values as family, tolerance, and sympathy to other people. The convergences in flash fiction contain two major components-metaphors and syntactic repetitions. Also, the convergences in the analyzed flash fiction stories are smaller in size than in Chopin's texts and include such stylistic devices as play for words, oxymorons.

Mimetic Mediators in Mark: How Graeco-Roman Biographies Use Secondary Characters to Offer Multiple Patterns of Imitation

Can the Markan disciples still be viewed as potential role models for the Gospel audience if Mark’s writing is identified as a biography? This long-standing line of narrative interpretation has recently been rejected as anachronistic by Helen K. Bond, who maintains that in Graeco-Roman biographies, secondary characters are only included for what they bring to the portrait of the protagonist. In response, this paper demonstrates that ancient biographies regularly use followers of their main characters to provide multiple mimetic patterns that clarify, broaden, and mitigate what it means to imitate their heroes. In particular, Mark’s cast of secondary characters offers three alternative patterns of behaviour for potential followers of Jesus: apostles, who emulate his itinerant lifestyle of preaching, healing, and exorcism; hosts, who provide apostles with food and shelter in their homes; and supporters, who serve the movement in other ways in accordance with their abilities and social status.

"I am a Russian soldier": linguistic and stylistic analysis of B.L. Vasilyev’s novel "His Name Was Not Listed" (to the 100th anniversary of the birth)

Based on linguo-stylistic analysis, the article examines the evolvement of the Russian soldier and the defender of the Motherland in the novel by B.L. Vasilyev "His Name Was Not Listed". The chosen subject is relevant due to the insufficient study of linguistic means and their specific features in the writer’s artistic work. The article aims to identify linguistic means of different levels with the help of which the author depicts the personality formation of a Red Army soldier who found himself on the front line from the first day of the war. The article uses contextual and structural semantic analysis of lexical units. On this basis, the means of transforming lexeme meanings are identified, which proves to be important for creating the protagonist’s image in the work. The system of character names, their comparative analysis, and quantitative estimation make it possible to draw a conclusion about the devices that reveal the formation stages of the Russian soldier’s image. The paper concludes that the following expressive linguistic means help to characterise the main character’s personality formation process: repetition at different language levels (situational, phrasal, lexical, morphemic); contextual transformation of the semantics of lexical units; the system of names for the main character of the novel, the frequency of character names; details reflecting the changes occurring in the protagonist’s mind; oppositions that perform a structural and characterological function in revealing the image of Nikolai Pluzhnikov.

ANALISIS PESAN MORAL KARAKTER BUYA HAMKA PADA FILM BUYA HAMKA VOLUME 1

"Buya Hamka Volume 1" is a biographical film that explores the life of Buya Hamka, an influential scholar and writer from Indonesia. This abstract presents an in-depth analysis of the moral message reflected in Buya Hamka's life journey in the film. The aim of the research is to understand the aspects of morality in the character Buya Hamka in the film Buya Hamka volume 1. Including spirituality, role modeling, social involvement and moral conflicts faced by the main character in the film. This research uses a qualitative method with a narrative paradigm approach. In the aspect of spirituality, the film shows Buya Hamka's spiritual journey, depicting his search for the meaning of life and religious values. Buya Hamka's example and ethics are reflected in every action and attitude, highlighting that his life decisions are consistent with the moral values he adheres to. Buya Hamka's social involvement in education, social welfare and political struggle is interpreted as a moral message about social responsibility and concern for society. Moral conflict becomes a dramatic moment in his life journey, where Buya Hamka is tested by the ethical values he believes in. His life decisions reflect his moral integrity and shape his character. Overall, this film not only provides a biographical picture of Buya Hamka, but also presents an in-depth reflection on moral and ethical values that can inspire viewers in living their daily lives.

Kryminał retro jako próba rekonstrukcji przeszłości na przykładzie bohaterki literackiej

The article focuses on the literary character as a carrier of information about an era in the genre of retro crime novels. The basis for the discussion is a series of works by Maryla Szymiczkowa titled Investigations of Professor Szczupaczyńska. The article reflects on the way history is reconstructed in crime literature and the significance of the gender of the main character in crime novels for the reader. It is demonstrated that the retro crime novel is a syncretic genre, and the complexity of the construction of the main character of the series is proved, reflecting the reality of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and referring to contemporary times.

Bentuk Profeminisme dalam Novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam Karya Dian Purnomo

The form of feminism raised by popular novels with the aim of describing how pro-feminism occurs is the background to this research. The data source for this research uses the novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam by Dian Purnomo and the data used is the form of pro-feminism that occurs in the novel as well as the form of feminism experienced by the main character. The method used is a qualitative descriptive method which is analyzed using content analysis techniques for the novel. The results of this analysis produced eight forms of pro-feminism data, the first form of pro-feminism from the character Dangu Toda was found in two data on pages 20 and 79. Second, the form of pro-feminism in Teman Magi was found in one data on page 119. The three, forms of pro-feminism in Tara were found in one data on page 105 Finally, the form of pro-feminism from the LSM, Gema Perempuan, found four data on pages 106, 122, 131, and 152. The form of feminism that occurs in this main character has four forms of gender concepts, namely gender and stereotypes, gender and marginalization, gender and subordination, and gender and violence. Keywords: feminism, novels, profeminism

Here Comes The Sun: A Novel Portraying Quarter-life Crisis of a College Graduate

Quarter-life crisis (QLC) is a period of uncertainty and questioning that typically occurs when people feel trapped, uninspired, and disillusioned during their mid-20s to early 30s, which is the currently most discussed and concerning topic nowadays since this issue is causing problems in twenty-somethings. Using the Quarter-life Crisis theory, this thesis explores the symptoms, causes, and solutions of QLC. Using psychological realism as its genre, this novel will explore the interior life of the main character, Rei, who experiences QLC. This novel tells the story of Rei, a fresh graduate who is unemployed for six months and is pressured by his father, under the influence of societal structure, to look for a job. Through the story, it can be seen that Rei’s symptoms of QLC are anxiety, identity crisis, and depression. The causes of his QLC are high expectations from his surroundings, sudden responsibility changes, and self-doubt. Solutions to his QLC are acknowledging his own QLC, asking for help, and accepting himself.

Implementation of Multicultural Education as Efforts to Strengthen the Five Main Character Values of Student Moderation at SDN Kutuh Kintamani

This research aims to reveal, understand, describe, and analyze facts about implementing multicultural education as strengthening the five central values of student character in the form of moderation at SDN Kutuh Kintamani, holistically and comprehensively following the science of religious education. The type of research used was descriptive qualitative. The methods used in data collection were interviews, observations, and documentation. The technique for determining informants was carried out using purposive sampling, taking samples adapted to the research objectives, and data analysis was carried out in four ways: data collection, reduction, data presentation, and data verification. Implementing multicultural education and strengthening the five central character values is very important for students' lives in society, in addition to understanding the five central character values that the Ministry of Education and Culture has determined as a reference for realizing religious moderation to prevent discriminatory actions against different groups in society, and also embodies the spiritual teachings they adhere to. This research impacts the social life of society to understand multicultural education, which can strengthen the five central character values as a form of religious moderation established by the Ministry of Education and Culture to foster solid and reliable religious tolerance. This research focuses on a study of the implementation of multicultural education to strengthen the five central character values of students' religious moderation, which has been carried out previously.

Anti-Hero Design to Grow the Meaning of Heroes from the Comic Entitled "Second Shot"

Development of digital era encourages creative industry to continue grow by raising many issues, nowadays many are found in various visual media using anti-hero characters as main character. Anti-hero is hero character who has traits and characters that deviate from depiction of a hero in general (Bagaskara, 2021). They have the same goal of doing good but in a way that may sometimes be wrong or unjustified (Wahyudi, 2020). This character is very appropriate to express human imperfection which in life always has advantages and disadvantages. In contrast to superhero characters who are too perfect to be used as exemplary figures in real life. The media that will be used is comic with theme entitled "The Second Shot" where main character who is half human and alien will be faced with many choices that can determine the future of the world, besides being disappointed or having hidden hatred as well. From past events from both human side who had deceived him and aliens who only took advantage of him. The use of comics media as visual media is based on fact that target audience is younger generation between ages 18-25 years who are more interested in reading picture books than those that contain too many words.

Staging Presence for Spatial Dignity

Abstract In exploring the figuration and physical presence of Little Amal, a 12-foot Syrian girl puppet and main character in a moving piece of epic public theater titled The Walk, I consider the dueling realities of welcomeness and unwantedness, hypervisibility and invisibility, spatial dignity and spatial denial faced by refugee girls, real and represented. Accessing a feminist refugee epistemology, I position Amal in contrast to yet another symbol of refugee girlhood—popstar M.I.A.—to move away from the typical simultaneously superfluous and stunted representations of sanctuary-seeking girls and toward a provocation that accepts their creative and complex lifeworlds.

Lesbian Lives in Soviet Latvia: The Narratives

This article employs narrative analysis to examine three testimonies provided by individuals who were contemporaries of lesbians in Soviet Latvia. The author’s research is based on two oral history interviews and the diary entries of a homosexual man, dating between the 1950s and 1980s. The research was carried out in four stages: (1) story analysis; (2) identification of main topics and characters; (3) identification of main terms and tone; and (4) extraction of three key narratives. The findings demonstrate, firstly, the lack of terminology to describe homosexual/non-heterosexual relationships between women when referencing the Soviet time. This indicates that contemporary terms used by the LGBTQI+ community may not be valid for analysing the experiences of non-heterosexual people in Soviet Latvia. Secondly, the testimonies described in this article view same-sex women’s relationships through heteronormative lens as deviating from the norm. Thirdly, the article highlights how rigid expectations of “manly” and “womanly” behaviour and traits are used to judge compliance with or deviation from societal norms. The understanding of non-heterosexual relationships between women, as evidenced by the sources, cannot be standardised. While the testimonies reference non-heterosexual relationships between women, they also mention same-sex relationships, which may have formed due to socioeconomic conditions and different intimate bonds.

More Than Tortillas

The Chicano-centric reboot of Party of Five (2020) exemplifies a postracial, postnetwork representational strategy to diversify mainstream media programming. While only ten episodes were produced and aired, several transgressive elements of Party of Five elevate the visibility and discursive representations of Chicanas/os/xs: the show problematizes dominant ideologies, complicates gender roles, offers nuanced constructions of immigrants, and depicts experiences of racialization and acculturation. Although the Chicano-centric storylines move beyond simply recasting main characters as Chicanas/ os/xs, the reboot was released during a racially dissonant television era that limited its run to a single season, curtailing the impact of its atypical representations. While the show’s ruptures upend television storytelling conventions that have excluded Chicanas/os/xs, its continuities and hasty cancellation reveal entrenched modes of storytelling that still uphold white centrality.

푸드트럭, 소셜미디어, 유동하는 쿠바 음식문화

This article examines ethnic and regional food culture in the United States, focusing on the Jon Favreau film Chef, and analyzes the intertextual impact of sharing food photos in social media spaces on the practice of food consumption and production in the real world. A summary and main research findings are as follows. First, in Chef, America’s diverse ethnic and regional food culture is portrayed through cinematic images of various ingredients and urban spaces along the main characters’ journey to Miami, New Orleans, Austin, and Los Angeles. Each city’s locality and food culture are complexly expressed through unique street scenes that preserve the local history and culture, famous restaurants that have become local attractions, colorful and lively food images, sounds generated during the cooking process, and cheerful background music. Second, this film can enhance understanding of the motivation for setting up and operating food trucks in the U.S. For the protagonist, Carl Casper, Cuban food and food trucks serve as symbols and infrastructure that guarantee his professional autonomy and creativity as a chef. By analyzing its storyline and dialogue, this article examines the ways, meanings, and repercussions of food culture representation in the media by those in the restaurant industry who prepare and sell food themselves, not by food consumers. To recapitulate, Chef is valuable as educational content in that it vividly introduces America’s diverse ethnic and regional food culture, farmers’ markets, and food truck culture. This article will contribute to a better understanding of how the prevalence of digital media can affect and socially reorganize food culture by examining the establishment and operation of food trucks in the U.S. through the film and the relationship between food truck businesses and social network services.

Study on Development of Main Character and Characterization in “Bohemian Rhapsody” Movie

There are two objectives of the study the first one is to identify the main character development in the “Bohemian Rhapsody” movie. the second is to analyze characterization of the main character in “Bohemian Rhapsody” movie. The data of this study were taken from the movie entitled Bohemian Rhapsody. The data source in this study was take from the movie in the movie was analyzed descriptively based on the theory How To Analize Fiction proposed by William Kenney (1956). The main character development was analyzed into two categorizes which is simple(flat) character and complex(round) characters. The characterization of the main character was analyzed into three categorize which is physiological, sociological, and psychological dimension of the main characterization. The characterization of Freddie Mercury over all is that he is a kind person, humble, gentle and romantic person but in the middle of the story he changed into a bad person, ego and unfriendly person which make him a complex(round) character.

제국의 역습

Edgar Allan Poe’s “Ligeia” has been an object of scholarly attention ever since D. H. Lawrence’s ground-breaking reading of it as a ‘vampire story’ in Studies in Classic American Literature. That attention has one critical blind spot to it, which is the lack of consideration on one of the story’s three main characters: Rowena. This paper proposes giving her a chance to be examined as yet another vampiric figure along with the narrator and Ligeia, on account of the symbiotically interdependent relationship between the vampire and the victim. The paper parallels this relationship with the complex interaction between the US and England in the 19th century, which revolves around a paradox of the former’s attempt to liberate itself from the latter’s imperial dominion while aspiring to be a new empire like the latter. The paper posits the narrator and Rowena as the US and England, respectively, and traces their struggle to take over the origin of Western imperialism which is embodied in Ligeia and to perpetuate its legacy. The ultimate goal of this paper is to show “Ligeia” as a story of Poe’s questioning the US’s unquestioning pursuit of global imperialism, thereby proving its resonance for our own time.

헉슬리의 『멋진 신세계』에 나타난 여성 유토피아 비전과 철인 통치 국가론

This article examines the vision of gender utopia presented in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and explores its utopian possibilities in Mustapha’s World State, which is compared to the philosopher-ruled state in Plato’s Republic. The theme of utopia has been approached differently in liberalism and socialism: liberal utopia prioritizes individual freedom, while socialist utopia emphasizes egalitarian community. The World State in The Brave New World abolishes patriarchy with advanced scientific and technological civilization and depicts a gender utopia without female reproductive labor, emotional labor, and care labor, while the actual main woman characters such as Lenina and Linda suffer pain and death. Therefore, Huxley’s World State represents an ideal gender utopia, while the female characters are evaluated based on their appearance and live tragic lives due to excessive national norms enforcing order. On the other hand, Mustapha’s World State embodies some of the ideal state described in Plato’s Republic, and the two polities are similar in that they are class societies based on stability ruled by philosophers. However, the World State places too much emphasis on community stability, suppressing individual freedom, emphasizing sensual pleasure rather than spiritual happiness, Eudaimonia of Plato’s polity. Eventually, Huxley’s utopia has an ideal structure of gender equality, but the women living there are not so happy. Although it is excellent in terms of stability and efficiency as an ideal politeia ruled by a philosopher, it has limitations that its educational method is rather oppressive, only indulges in pleasure, then represents a failed gender utopia in the end.

동시대 일본인이 바라본 김옥균의 위상

This study seeks to reexamine the reality of Joseon before and after the Gapsin Coup as shown in Nakarai Dosui's newspaper serial novel 『The Sand Wind Blowing in Joseon』 and the realization of Kim Ok-gyun's Three Harmony Doctrine through the main character of the work, although he is a faction. This can be said to be a reexamination of how Kim Ok-gyun's status and the international situation of the three countries, reproduced through contemporary newspaper media in the late 1880s, were biased and conveyed to the Japanese public. It consists of fiction that plays a leading role in. Unlike existing works based on Kim Ok-gyun, which use the so-called death of Kim Ok-gyun or the historical fact of the Gapsin Coup as their main creative motif, this is a humanities study that focuses on the social and political aspects of the late Joseon Dynasty and the three harmony doctrine and independence of Joseon that Kim Ok-gyun advocated. It can be said that it has a unique feature that sets it apart from other works in that it was reconstructed with scholarly imagination. Specifically, as Nakarai lived at the same time as enlightenment thinkers such as Kim Ok-gyun and Park Young-hyo, he not only criticized the failure of the Gapsin Coup more objectively and macroscopically, but also did not simply end it as a failure, but established the Triple Alliance between Joseon, Japan, and the Qing Dynasty through factions. In conclusion, it is differentiated from existing cultural contents featuring Kim Ok-gyun in that it realizes the three harmony doctrine that resists Western imperialism.
 In this way, Nakarai's 『The Sand Wind Blowing in Joseon』 checks and criticizes Japan's large imperialistic vested interests in the late 19th century, and as an alternative, builds a system of independence and peace for the three East Asian countries to jointly confront Western imperialist invasion. It must be said that it has counter-cultural characteristics. And Nakarai's view of Joseon is still valid even in the 21st century, as the Gapsin Coup that took place in 1884 was triggered by international relations with the Qing Dynasty and domestically by resistance to pre-modernity and the large mainstream forces of the Min clan., This is also the reason why Kim Ok-gyun's status should be recalled again in our history.

Pendidikan Karakter dalam Anime: Analisis Psikologi Tokoh Naruto pada Serial Anime Naruto

Naruto anime is one of the anime that can be used as an educational watch that supports us in teaching character education to the younger generation. The purpose of this study is to analyze the psychology of the main characters of Naruto anime and find out the influence of Naruto anime in shaping characters and values in the audience. This study used a qualitative approach with data collection techniques, watch-listen-record and read-record. From this research, it can be found that there are several psychological aspects of Naruto characters, namely 1) loneliness and rejection, 2) social care, 3) motivation and determination, 4) self-development, 5) courage and confidence, 6) empathy, and the influence of the anime in shaping the character and values in the audience, namely 1) inspiration to overcome obstacles, 2) the importance of friendship, 3) face conflict peacefully, 4) courage to oppose injustice. The conclusion obtained is that the character Naruto shows a rich journey in terms of psychology, from a difficult childhood to strong self-development. In addition, Naruto Anime can inspire and shape characters and values in its audience.

João de Deus’s musical perversions: a case study on the music and sexuality in two films by João César Monteiro

ABSTRACT This article addresses the music and its interactions in two films directed by João César Monteiro – Recordações da Casa Amarela [Recollections of the Yellow House] and A Comédia de Deus [God’s Comedy]. These are the first two films in God’s Trilogy, a trilogy released between 1989 and 1999. Together, they tell the story of a character called João de Deus, who lives and behaves in ways that deviate from social and moral norms, establishing obsessive and perverse relationships with several women. In this article, we approach the music and sounds we hear in certain scenes and the way these work in representing the character’s ‘self’. Thus, by analysing the music that accompanies the voyeuristic behaviour of the character João de Deus towards Julieta, his sexual overvaluation of Rosarinho, and the fetishism evidenced in his relationship with Joaninha’s underwear, we can both better define the main character’s personality and understand the role music plays in developing the plots of Monteiro’s cinema.

«Роман-миф» Г. Свифта: генезис и рецепция мифологии Фенов

The aim of the proposed research is to identify the reasons for the emergence of Fenland mythology, which defines the cognitive thinking and life cycle of characters in the novel "Waterland" by G. Swift. The article raises the question of the subjective perception of Fenland myth, which may vary depending on the individual. The author offers the following typology of myth recipients for consideration: the first type of people turns stories into gossip, the second transforms the "magical land" for practical purposes, and the third secularizes the religious beliefs of the Fens. The reason why the main character, the teacher Tom Crick, rejects mythological thinking in his youth but later explains to his students the peculiarities and unwritten rules of Fenian mythology, is explained. The scientific novelty lies in the author's identification, based on the work "Waterland," of the patterns of the relationship between Fenian mythology and the "grand history" of the world; the nuances of the influence of mythology on history and vice versa are explained; the historical root causes of the emergence of tales and gossip are revealed. The results of the study show that, firstly, legends arise in the consciousness of Fens during contemplation of the emptiness of the "flat Fens"; secondly, subjective perception of the myth depends on a person's connection to historical reality; thirdly, teacher Crick mentally returns to the beginning of his life (to the myths) to try to rid his students of the horror of the "end of history."