Real-life Characters Research Articles

Las virtudes de Satanás: perspectivas de educación moral del personaje de ficción

Recent attention to character formation as the key to moral education has also regarded personal and fictional role models as appropriate means to this end. Moreover, while one may have grave reservations about the influence of personal role-models (perhaps upon the young by those they happen to admire), serious fiction has often been considered an inspirational source of moral example. Still, while this paper ultimately mounts a defence of the moral educational potential of literature, it is also concerned to press two significant reservations about any and all attention to fictional character as a means to such education. First, since the ultimate meaning of any fictional character and conduct is largely, if not exclusively, confined to their narrative contexts, we should not suppose them to have any direct role-modelling application to the affairs of human life beyond such contexts. Second, and more significantly, since morality is also ultimately more than and/or not entirely reducible to the contingencies of human character, attention to either fictional or real-life character must anyway fall somewhat short of full moral education.

Analyzing the Advantages and Disadvantages of Film Aesthetics and Background Analysis

Based on the deep-rooted class gap in South Korea, “Parasite” is one of the most influential films in the history of Korean cinema. This study will analyze and appreciate the audio-visual language, shooting techniques, skills, and other aspects of the film. Based on its sustained market promotion, it will analyze this cultural product’s comprehensive impact on Korean audiences’ awareness and the image of Eastern culture. Despite the bold plot creation and advanced aesthetics of ‘Parasite’, the distance between its character setting and reality still needs to be improved. The author believes that the character set is in line with the personality of real-life characters and is more conducive to bridging the gap between the film and the audience. The film criticizes the inequality of social class disparities, showcases cruel reality, and warns people that the author believes movies can shape more realistic Eastern character images and improve the overly simplistic setting of the poor.

<육미당기>의 군담 창작 방식과 작가 의식

The purpose of this study is to examine the creation of military jokes in Yukmidanggi and to identify their significance. <Yukmidanggi is a Korean short story written by Seo Yoo-young in the mid-19th century, and is considered to be a work in which the author's experiences and historical awareness are internalized. In particular, Seo Yoo-young reveals her historical awareness through numerous poems, so by examining the creative process of Yukmi-dang-gi, we will be able to grasp her creative motivation and thematic consciousness.
 The military jokes in Yukmidanggi can be divided into two parts. The first is the story of Tang and Tavern, and the second is the story of repelling the Japanese army from Silla. Since these two sagas appear in the middle and second half of the work, I examined the characteristic aspects of each. At this time, the first gungdam in Yukmidanggi can be divided into the part where the battle scene is described and the part where the identity of the female protagonist, Baek Ryun, is revealed, and it was found that it was influenced by the gungdam of Kim Heejingjeon and Hajin Yangmunrok, respectively. The second gundam is represented as a battle between Silla and Woguk, and in particular, it maximizes realism by introducing real-life characters such as Jang Bogo and Jeongye in the battle between Silla and Woguk. This is one of the author's narrative strategies to reinvent Gundam by reflecting historical facts.
 Seo Yoo-young is well versed in history. Therefore, in the beginning of the work, before the protagonist's narrative begins, he summarizes the historical flow from the establishment of Dangunjoseon to Silla's achievement of unification, revealing his sense of history. <At the time of Yukmidanggi's creation, in the mid-19th century, Korean society was in turmoil. Under Andong Kim's regime from the beginning of the 19th century, the turbulence of the so-called Three Kingdoms, including Jeonjeong, Gunjeong, and Hwangok, was intensified, and the people's lives were disrupted by the traveling of tamgwan ducks. In response, the peasants finally started the Jinju Rebellion in the spring of 1862, causing civil unrest all over the country. At the same time as the peasant uprising broke out and expanded nationwide, the Donghak movement centered on Choi Je-woo was founded in Gyeongju, causing a major upheaval in Joseon society.
 In addition to the many internal disruptions caused by the Sedo politics, there were other problems caused by foreign powers. Politically and ideologically, it was the introduction of Catholicism, and militarily and socially, it was the invasion of foreign powers by the Lee Yangsun. The period of the mid-19th century, which was a period of chaos in Joseon society, is projected by Seo Yoo-young in Yukmidanggi. At this time, the two military discourses that appear in the middle and second half of the narrative reveal the legitimacy of the Northern Bees through the war to conquer Orang Kae and the sense of duty of Imran through the conquest of Whyguk. In other words, Seo Yoo-young internalizes his experiences through Yukmidanggi and executes the fictional realization of his personal desires.

Internet-delivered psychological interventions for older adults with depression: A scoping review

BackgroundDepression is prevalent among older adults, and internet-delivered psychological interventions (IDPIs) have emerged as a promising solution. AimTo explore the landscape of IDPIs for late-life depression, examining current characteristics, psychotherapies, intervention strategies, facilitators, and barriers. MethodGuided by a PRISMA-guided scoping review, we systematically searched five electronic databases. Results25 relevant studies were identified. IDPIs were used for treatment, prevention, and assessment. Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy was the most common psychotherapy. Seven strategies to provide tailored services include psychotherapy courses, professional involvement, mood and progress tracking, virtual community, timed reminders, additional learning resources, and gamification elements. Barriers contained cognitive impairment, low digital literacy, device inaccessibility, limited depression awareness, adherence issues, and acclimation time, while facilitators included prior treatment experience, real-life character stories, strong client-worker bonds, and integration into daily care routines. ConclusionIDPIs present an accessible and convenient avenue for older adults. Future directions suggest exploring minimalist interventions, diverse strategies, and optimized implementation to amplify IDPIs impact among this vulnerable group.

Shaw Disarms the Man: War, Colonialism, and Theater in the 1890s (Arms and the Man, The Devil’s Disciple, and Caesar and Cleopatra)

Shaw Disarms the Man: War, Colonialism, and Theater in the 1890s (Arms and the Man, The Devil’s Disciple, <i>and</i> Caesar and Cleopatra)

A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community. By Natalia Molina

It’s not often that one reviews a scholarly book and feels the need to promise no spoilers, but Natalia Molina’s A Place at the Nayarit has enough unexpected twists and intriguing real-life characters that readers will want to enjoy just learning how things turn out. This is a microhistory of a restaurant, its creator, its employees, and its clientele—but Molina succeeds in opening the scene outward, pivoting from the hyperlocal to encompass a neighborhood, a city, and ultimately a continent. Molina’s aim is classic social history; she wants to tell stories that most other genres “rarely capture: how marginalized people can create their own places in ways that reclaim dignity, create social cohesion, and foster mutual care.” The ethnic Mexican “placemakers” at the heart of her book, she explains, “were not just putting food on the table or into their mouths. They were creating meaning, establishing links with one another, and… asserting their place in a nation that often seemed intent on pushing them to the margins” (pp. 8–9).

Review: Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox, by Greg Hall

Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox, by Greg Hall Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox. By Greg Hall. (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2022. 276 pp.) Gigi Peterson Gigi Peterson State University of New York at Cortland Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (2): 302–303. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.302 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Gigi Peterson; Review: Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox, by Greg Hall. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2023; 92 (2): 302–303. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.302 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Writing for leftwing publications, Jay Fox sometimes created fictional characters to humanize and articulate questions and issues that working people faced. Attentive to this literary strategy, Greg Hall artfully employs a real-life character—Fox—to illustrate conditions and choices as capitalist industrialization transformed labor and lives, and “wageworkers confronted class in American society” (p. 8). Fox chose anarchism to inform his work in this confrontation, as a wage laborer, union organizer, author, and editor. He participated in and wrote about many pivotal developments in U.S. labor history from the late 1880s through the 1930s. Praising Fox’s ability to make “complex ideas and events” (p. 3) accessible to readers, Hall does the same in this “microhistory of the radicals, utopians, revolutionaries, and union men and women with whom [Fox] associated, debated, and supported” (p. 8) during his long life from 1870 to 1961. Some associates were famous, from Emma Goldman to William Z.... You do not currently have access to this content.

ANSIS EPNERS’ FILM “ALIVE”: FROM DOCUMENTARY TO FICTION

The first short documentary “Alive” (Dzīvs, 1970) is an important signifier of Latvian director Ansis Epners’ (1937–2003) oeuvre both in terms of his approach to documentary film practice, and growing interest in fiction filmmaking. The film “Alive” and later idea to develop a full-length fiction film based on its main character demonstrate Epners’ unconventional expression of both kinds of filmmaking, which was received with a mixed response at the time. Epners used performative elements in the documentary, and included real-life character playing himself in the planned fiction film, challenging the assumptions and conventions of filmmaking practices in Latvia at that time. In this article I will analyse Epners’ formal and stylistic choices in the film “Alive” and its reception in the early 1970s, and the script for the fiction film based on the main character of the film “Alive” Arnolds Cīrulis. The reception of “Alive” shows the contradictions between the dominant views on the documentary film form and Epners’ work. The fiction film script, which was not turned into film, remains as an example of versatility of Epners’ ideas on the potentials of fiction filmmaking.

Delineating Masculinity Belief in Guy de Maupassants’ Three Short Stories

This study aims to delineate masculinity issues in Guy Maupassant’s Father Milon, A Duel and The Coloniel’s Ideas short stories. This study sees that the practice of masculinity in the society legitimizes the dominant position of men and justifies the subordination of the male and female population in general and other marginalized ways of being male. This study employed Stuart Hall’s representation and Gramsci’s hegemony theories to delineate masculinity in Maupassants’ three short stories. The qualitative descriptive method was applied as the data were in the form of narration and dialogues. The short stories revealed the dominant position of men in society that justifies the subordination of the male and female population in general. Finally, with the creation of different male characters with various degree of masculine nature, Guy Maupassant in Father Milon, A Duel and The Coloniel’s Ideas tries to balance the male character he creates. Maupassant is just trying to paint pictures of different kinds the man seen in society, therefore, confirms the verisimilitude between characters in literary works and real-life characters.

Political Engagement in Carne y Arena by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Created by Mexican awarded director Alejandro González Iñárritu, Carne y Arena is an immersive mixed-reality installation that allows visitors to experience traumatic and violent incidents with illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican–US border. Carne y Arena’s mixed reality combines VR experience with physical components, turning it into a multisensory, bodily immersive experience. As part of the art installation, the whole VR arena is surrounded by the remains of a wall’s border; while inside, actual immigrants’ clothes and objects are also exhibited. Another component is the documentary aspect, where real-life characters recount their stories through video testimonies. Iñárritu immerses and makes the visitors experience refugees’ stories first-hand while exploring their emotional reactions to traumatic realities through a spiral of corporeal sensations and entertainment spectacle. According to Iñárritu, the intent is to subordinate technology to the human condition. Technology does mean nothing unless it can reveal or denounce people’s situations. Therefore, technology must be subordinated to humans, humanity, and art. “I despise technology,” says the filmmaker. But, has film lost the power to engage the viewers emotionally? Can virtual reality simulate refugees’ dispossession (the sense of the self) and alleviate society’s consciousness? In this paper, I examine the role of a museum installation featuring refugees’ discourses; the VR technology in bringing forward the visitor’s social engagement; and the issues the filmmaker address, such as the refugee’s experience in contemporary global society.

Culture Entrenched Gender Inequality in Othello by William Shakespeare and Night of No Moon by Syed Waliullah: A Comparative Study

&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; Culture of a society directly influences the pattern of behavior of the people. It is such a strong force that, people are hardly able to go and think beyond the boundary of their cultural practices. The problem begins when cultural indoctrination controls human thought process and appears to justify inhuman practices in the name of culture and tradition. This study has been done with a view to exposing the gender-based inequality prevailing in the society which is nurtured by culture. In doing so Othello by William Shakespeare and Night of No Moon by Syed Waliullah, two great pieces of literary works have been picked. Both of the literary pieces depict unequal treatment of the women in the society. Although, two of them are composed in different contexts, yet there are similarities in terms of treatment of females in the society. In both Othello and Night of No Moon the fate of women is decided by the men and the whole societal system fuels the unjust action. The authors draw real life characters to show how the females become victims in the hand of social organizations formed and dominated by men. This study explores through the characters and plots of the two texts and intends to see the facts from a feminist point of view to analyze behavior of people. Therefore, we observe the condition of women of the society, who are considered as ‘the weaker sex', and continuously dominated, suppressed and victimized by culturally motivated men. Thus, we have put our logical argument drawing evidences from the literary texts to establish that, Culture of a society substantially contributes to constitute patriarchal mindset among the people of the society which results in treating women as so called ‘Second sex'.&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D;

Child sexual abuse ‒ issues and prevention

Child sexual abuse is considered a social problem because of its high prevalence and its negative long-term consequences on child development and functioning (Séguin-Lemire et al., 2017). It is difficult to estimate the scale of this phenomenon due to the failure of victims to report situations of abuse. The severity of sexual abuse is determined by many factors, including technological advances that facilitate access to developmentally inappropriate content, lack of parental attention, environmental support or sex education (Handayani, Rasmita, 2020). Children who experience abuse may struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (Berliner, 2011), depression (Greger et al., 2015), and anxiety (Doerfler et al., 2009). Failure to therapeutically work through traumatic experiences of abuse can lead to emotional, or personality disorders in adulthood (Kiemblowski, 2002; Salter, 2003). Children living around the world are unable to understand sexual abuse, being let alone give informed consent to it. The role of early prevention measures to protect the youngest from sexual abuse is increasingly emphasised (Wurtele, 2009; Zeuthen &amp; Hagelskjaer, 2013). Review studies indicate the importance of prevention in increasing children’s self-defence knowledge and skills (Topping, Barron, 2009; Walsh et al., 2015). Numerous studies conducted so far indicate the significant role of the close environment in conducting effective prevention of sexual harassment of the youngest (Farmer et al, 2011; Pieper, DeHann, 2017; Reppucci et al, 1994). The aim of this article is to present the issue of child sexual abuse and show the importance of selected preventive actions taken by the family and non-family environment (Wortley, Smallbone, 2006). Involvement of the close environment, according to the assumptions of Bronfenbrenner’s model (1977), may contribute to effective protection of the youngest on many interacting levels. According to Bandura’s (2002) theory, children learn by observing and imitating the behaviour of real life characters. It is therefore important to answer the question: how can children’s close environments work together to effectively protect them from sexual abuse?

Life and the World Around: Theme of Subjugation of the Downtrodden and Approaches in Indian culture as Revealed in My India

This paper is a descriptive work and is an attempt to study Jim Corbett’s approach, as an Indo-Anglian writer, towards the theme of caste related subjugation in the colonial era. Jim Corbett is one of the few Anglo-Indian writers, who through his non-fictional narrative reveals minute observation of the customs, traditions and rituals of Indian culture. Short stories based on real-life characters offer, as one of the major themes, a glimpse of the suffering and subjugation and taboo associated with the life of the untouchables. He understands the role of caste system in India and is aware of its relevance in shaping the destiny of a person. Corbett’s concern is not only class and caste conscious, but also socially relevant and the delineation of the anguish of the underprivileged is poignant and significant. He is sensitive towards their struggle and gives the message of equality and humanity. He is a moralist, who preaches the lesson of humanity.

Influencer Impact on Brand Awareness: A Mixed Method Survey in the German Fashion Segment

This study evaluates the impact of influencer marketing on consumers. Although online influencers are long established in German B2C markets, research in the field is scarce. Marketing managers are unsure how influencer marketing strategies should be drafted and which influencers should be recruited in order to maximize their marketing efforts at the consumer level. Based on a review of previous theoretical and empirical literature, a mixed method empirical study comprising semistructured interviews with three German fashion influencers and a consumer survey (N = 385) among the followers of these influencers are conducted to evaluate the impact of influencer activity on consumer followership, brand awareness and purchase intention. Results indicate that the intensity of influencer network involvement, intrinsic influencer motivation, authenticity of communication style and the real-life character of influencer posts increase the dependent variables. Hence, the empirical study has contributed to identify the most important determiners for the German B2C fashion influencer segment. Marketing managers are strongly advised to select influencers adequately and organize their marketing strategy in correspondence with their company and products.

The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

Exploring Social and Cultural Values in Contemporary Literature

Paper aims to explore effect of society and cultural norms on minds of contemporary writers. Through literary writings students understand how world moves forward through interdependency. Writers writing in realistic stream try to touch upon facts and not on assumptions. They observe real life characters in a society set up and do not write what comes as historical truth. Complex behaviour can be seen in complex writings of contemporary writings. Man being a social animal loves to live life without adhering to age old traditions that gave strength to inner make up of one’s character. Literature reflects negative and positive side of modern man. What is dealt with in Social Sciences, the same is pored out in words by poets, dramatists and novelists.Non literary writers like Jared Diamond emphasize upon effect of land topography on man's thinking process and not history or society that is all around him. Contemporary world is full of hardships. Examples from literary texts can support one to deal with these hardships. Examples would be taken from works written after World War 11 that fall under contemporary literature.

ARCHETYPES OF PEACE MAKING IN CHAMAN NAHAL'S ‘CROWN AND THE LOIN CLOTH’

Chaman Nahal’s unconventional reading of the Crown and the Loin Cloth would reveal his far reaching symbolism and character mirroring in an attempt to create archetypes of freedom through non-violence. The symbolism that was detailed through each character of the Crown and the Loin Cloth has different levels of literal and archetypal representation that would count as prefiguring of certain real life characters and events. Such enlivening of a past society could not be better in any other author’s hands.

Intertextuality in Daniel Kehlmann’s Novel Tyll

Intertextuality in Daniel Kehlmann’s Novel Tyll Marc J. Schweissinger Abstract This article examines intertextuality in the novel Tyll, by Daniel Kehlmann, from 2017. The Name Tyll refers to the old medieval figure Till Eulenspiegel. Eulenspiegel, a real-life character became popular through folk songs of the 15th and 16th centuries in Germany, but Kehlmann creates a historical novel, placing his Tyll in the Thirty Years‟ War (1618–1648), a war tormenting central Europe. Kehlmann employs literary borrowings from the original rough farce and Charles De Coster‟s world-famous version of the 19th century, The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak. But while De Coster presented his Till as a freedom fighter for the Protestant Netherlands against Catholic Spanish oppression, Kehlmann pictures an entirely different character. Moreover, in contrast to the rough farce, Kehlmann equips his Tyll with an individual biography. Tyll, suffering from childhood trauma, runs away from home and becomes a travelling artist. Caught up by the whirlwind of the Thirty Years‟ War, unprotected by law, Tyll turns from an able trickster similar to the character from the popular folk song into a fool for the so-called Winter King of Bohemia, Frederick V. Kehlmann creates an intertextual riddle, shifting back and forward in time, deliberately full of flaws and conceptual loopholes. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/ijll.v7n1a16

Joseph’s Squinting Eye: Race and Individualism in Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country

Peter Matthiessen’s novel Shadow Country offers a fictionalized account of the life of real-life character Edgar Watson. Matthiessen’s portrayal illustrates Jack Turner’s argument in Awakening to Race that atomistic individualism both justifies an individual’s success as a product of that person’s hard work and masks the racial inequality on which that success is actually predicated. Turner advocates an “awakening to race” as an important step toward replacing atomistic individualism with democratic individualism in American society. Matthiessen’s work deepens Turner’s analysis by showing that the whiteness of Watson’s atomistic individualism is inflected by masculinity. Further, Matthiessen depicts the difficulty of awakening to race for many white Americans. The Edgar Watson narrative serves to show that while closing one’s eyes to race may appear to be an advantage for most white people, not awakening to race actually exacts a devastating psychological tax. That kind of insight, which approaching political theory through literature affords, may help white Americans circumvent psychological mechanisms of denial and acknowledge the difficult history of their country.

From Reality to Fiction: A Journey by Real-Life Photographers to the Pages of Novels

The first mention of photography in a novel comes in Nathaniel Hawthorn’s “The House of the Seven Gables” (1851), although there was a prescient mention of a nonexistent process wherein an image is formed on canvas in “Giphantie” (1760) by Charles-Francois Tiphaigne de la Roche. Following on from there photography has been a frequent theme for writers. There have been many stories published that feature a photographer, a photograph (or series of photographs), or some aspect of photography (still and moving). In these novels, some of the aspects of photography are described accurately; in others not so. Only conventionally published novels have been reviewed during this research; e-books have not been included. In many instances the photographer portrayed in novels is a fictional character fully drawn by the author. However, in other novels the author takes detail from real life to plump his or her character, and it is this situation on which the current analysis draws. This study encompasses real-life photographers: August Sander in Richard Power’s “Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance” (1984), Louis J.-M. Daguerre in Dominic Smith’s “The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre” (2006), Edwards S. Curtis in Marianne Wiggans’ “The Shadow Catcher” (2007), Edward Steichen in Emily Mitchell’s “The Last Summer of the World” (2007), Roger Fenton in Matthew Plampin’s “The Street Philosopher” (2008), and E. J. Bellocq in several novels including David Fulmer’s “Chasing the Devil’s Tail” (2001) and Rampart Street (2006), Frederick Turner’s “Redemption” (2006), as well as Michael Ondaatje’s “Coming through Slaughter” (1977). There is scant information about the life of several of these photographers, while others have several biographies from which the writer might draw. Where photographs of these six photographers exist they can, like all photographs, be misleading. Where facts are scare, the authors—as they should and can do in novels—broaden the brushstrokes from imagination. This essay describes the placement of real-life photographers in works of fiction and how the facts and the fictions relate. By implication, it argues the need for an accurate representation of the real-life character when the known facts are available, even if a novel is a vehicle for fiction.