Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

In Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion, Aurelianus ( here called " Aurelianus Ambrosius Ventidius ") is a major character and is shown as one of the last loyal Romans, going to enormous lengths for his boy emperor Romulus Augustus, whose power has been wrested by the barbarian Odoacer.

* In the classic 70s period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, a major character in the second season, which is circa 1909-10, is Thomas Watkins, the devious Bellamy family chauffeur.

In the 1979 spinoff of Upstairs, Downstairs entitled Thomas & Sarah, Watkins and Sarah Moffat, another major character, marry and return briefly to Abergavenny.

The last major element of many BRP games is that there is no difference between the player character race systems and that of the monster or opponents.

It was thus no mere translation from the Latin: its Protestant character is made clear by the drastic reduction of the place of saints, compressing what had been the major part into three petitions.

The character Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer, was featured in his own successful spin-off, Frasier, which also ran for 11 seasons and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major, and some minor, Cheers characters.

He also serves as a major character in Starling Lawrence's The Lightning Keeper.

In 1983, Shirley Armitage became the first major black character in her role as machinist at Baldwin's Casuals.

He has not played major roles in any of his own films, but he did put in a brief appearance as a gynecologist in The Fly ; he can also be glimpsed among the sex-crazed hordes in Shivers ; he can be heard as an unseen car-pound attendant in Crash ; his hands can be glimpsed in eXistenZ ; and he appeared as a stand-in for James Woods in Videodrome for shots in which Woods ' character wore a helmet that covered his head.

* Tragedy: a drama in which a character's downfall is caused by a flaw in their character or by a major error in judgment.

Daedalus is the name of a major character in the game Deus Ex and the anime Ergo Proxy.

Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ), the first comic book to feature the new character archetype — soon known as " superheroes " — proved a major sales hit.

In this work, Eris is a major character.

It was this extensive samurai ( noble warrior class ) population which defined the character of Edo, particularly in contrast to the two major cities of Kyoto and Osaka ( neither of which were ruled by a daimyō or had a significant samurai population ).

Other key members of the development team included Bill Trost, who created the history, lore and major characters of Norrath ( including Everquest protagonist Firiona Vie ), Geoffrey " GZ " Zatkin who implemented the spell system, and artist Milo D. Cooper, who did the original character modeling in the game.

* Frederick Douglass is a major character in the alternate history novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove.

Francisco Madero, Porfirio Díaz, and other major figures and events of the Mexican Revolution are seen and experienced by the character of Frank Traverse in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.

Two rural-style comedians, already well known in their native Canada, gained their first major U. S. exposure — Gordie Tapp and Don Harron ( whose KORN Radio character, newscaster Charlie Farquharson, had been a fixture of Canadian television since 1952 and later appeared on The Red Green Show ).

However, Cotten was the only one of the four to find major success as a lead in Hollywood outside of Citizen Kane ; Moorehead and Collins became successful character film actors.

Japheth is a major character in the Madeleine L ' Engle novel Many Waters ( 1986, ISBN 0 374 34796 4 ).

The mountainous region of the northern shore is known both for its historic character and as a major wine region, while the flat southern shore is known for its resort towns.

The epic is traditionally ascribed to the sage Vyasa, who is also a major character in the epic.

Merlin is a major character in T. H. White's collection The Once and Future King and the related The Book of Merlyn.

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The latter image gained further currency due to Alexandre Dumas ' The Three Musketeers, of which Richelieu is a major character and one of the main villains.

* Tim Curry in the film The Three Musketeers ( 1993 ) This film, in a major departure from both history and Alexandre Dumas ' work, depicts Richelieu as trying to overthrow and assassinate Louis XIII.

CodeWeavers is a major contributor to the Wine project, a free software / open-source software project that helps Windows applications run on different x86-based operating systems, and employs the project's maintainer, Alexandre Julliard, as their CTO.

In 1888 Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin isolated diphtheria toxin, and following the 1890 discovery by Behring and Kitasato of antitoxin based immunity to diphtheria and tetanus, the antitoxin became the first major success of modern therapeutic Immunology.

In the mid 2000's, torture porn was given a major boost within the horror industry by a new wave of French films -- commonly referred to as the New French Extremity -- which became internationally known for their extremely brutal nature: Martyrs ( 2008 ), directed by Pascal Laugier, Frontier ( s ) ( 2007 ), directed by Xavier Gens, and Inside ( 2007 ), directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury.

In 1955, she achieved major success with her setting of Alexandre Breffort's book Irma la Douce, which was translated into English and had long runs in London and on Broadway under the direction of Peter Brook.

A 10th century Latin version by one Leo the Archpriest is the basis of the later medieval vernacular translations in all the major languages of Europe, including French ( 12th century ), English, Scots ( The Buik of Alexander ) ( 13th century ), Italian, Spanish ( the Libro de Alexandre ), German ( the Alexanderlied and a 15th century version by Johannes Hartlieb ), Slavonic, Romanian, and Hungarian.

The main defender of the painting was Alexandre Benois ; his main detractor was Ilya Repin ( hence, Petrov-Vodkin was discussed by two of the major Russian painters of the time ).

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

One of the major themes of the novel is the difficulty of soldiers to revert to civilian life after having experienced extreme combat situations.

Rodolfo " Corky " Gonzales's " Yo Soy Joaquin " is one of the first examples of Chicano poetry, while José Antonio Villarreal's Pocho is widely recognized as the first major Chicano / a novel.

The novel, " Chicano " by Richard Vasquez, was the first novel about Mexican-Americans to be released by a major publisher ( Doubleday, 1970 ).

Reviewing the novel in the New York Times, Carlos Fuentes called Grossman's translation a " major literary achievement " and another called it the " most transparent and least impeded among more than a dozen English translations going back to the 17th century.

The major part of the action in the Romance of the Forest is set in an abandoned and ruined abbey and the building itself served as a moral lesson, as well as a major setting for and mirror of the action in the novel.

Scott makes the 12th-century's Saxon-Norman conflict a major theme in his novel.

Soon the content of every newspaper, book, novel, play, film, broadcast and concert, from the level of nationally-known publishers and orchestras to local newspapers and village choirs, was subject to supervision by the Propaganda Ministry, although a process of self-censorship was soon effectively operating in all these fields, leaving the Ministry in Berlin free to concentrate on the most politically sensitive areas such as major newspapers and the state radio.

The CD also includes a panel discussion on the novel, the major participants in which are P. D. James and Jill Paton Walsh.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

In the 1930s, in addition to further major works by Faulkner, Samuel Beckett's published his first major work, the novel Murphy ( 1938 ).

By understanding the physical and chemical properties of proteins and other macromolecules at the atomic level in various cells in the kidney, novel therapeutic approaches can be designed to combat major renal diseases.

The first major time travel novel was Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

One of the characters in the novel compares More favourably to almost every other major historical figure: " He had one completely honest moment right at the end.

Maugham's last major novel, The Razor's Edge, published in 1944, was a departure for him in many ways.

The song provides a major organizational motif for the novel.

date – Ramon Llull writes Blanquerna, the first major work of literature written in Catalan, and perhaps the first European novel.

Now recognized as a major talent, Altman had critical breakthroughs with McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), known for its gritty portrayal of the American frontier ; The Long Goodbye ( 1973 ), a remake of a Raymond Chandler novel ; Thieves Like Us ( 1974 ), and Nashville ( 1975 ).