Before long, Sylvester learns that the house is overrun with mice ; killer mice, in fact ( one wearing an executioner's hood and carrying an axe, the rest looking like the Chuck Jones-created characters Hubie and Bertie ), who are just in the process of carting off the previous owners ' cat to the chopping block.

Instead, the audience can sit back at ease and, from the perspective of an enlightened time which no longer believes in such things, enjoy the dead seriousness with which the characters in the play take the witches and devils which are under discussion.

All 128 ASCII characters, including non-printable characters ( represented by their abbreviations ). The 95 ASCII graphic characters are numbered from 20 < sub > hexadecimal | hex </ sub > to 7E < sub > hexadecimal | hex </ sub > ( decimal 32 to 126 ).

Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.

Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

The characters in this book in particular are also based on archaeologists Christie knew from her personal experiences on excavations sites.

The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.

The theme of exile and separation is embodied in two characters, Rieux and Rambert, both of whom are separated from the women they love.

The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).

Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

It is assumed that players will portray the children of the main characters from the books-the ruling family of Amber, known as the Elder Amberites-or a resident of the Courts.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

* Wendelin discovers a compound of the initial letters, amounting to 365 in numerical value, of four Hebrew and three Greek words, all written with Greek characters: ab, ben, rouach, hakadōs ; sōtēria apo xylou (“ Father, Son, Spirit, holy ; salvation from the cross ”).

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

* Ajax ( comics ), the name of two fictional characters from the Marvel Universe

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable ( from a total of 128 ) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters ( beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII

Ibsen started thinking about the play around May 1878, although he did not begin its first draft until a year later, having reflected on the themes and characters in the intervening period ( he visualised its protagonist, Nora, for instance, as having approached him one day wearing " a blue woolen dress ").

Each series was set in a different historical period with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example Melchett and Lord Flashheart.

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

Chaplin is also one of the central characters in Glen David Gold's novel Sunnyside, which is set in the World War I period.

Several popular characters of the period received the cartoon treatment.

Inside these one could find matchbooks and business cards apparently defaced by non-player characters, newspaper cuttings and ( in the case of Orient Express ) period passports to which players could attach their photographs, bringing a Live Action Role Playing feel to a tabletop game.

Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

The crew is made up of four unique characters: Jet Black, a former ISSP police officer who retired following a mob hit that cost him his arm, Spike Spiegel, a laid-back exiled hitman of the ruthless Red Dragons ' Syndicate, Faye Valentine, a beautiful amnesiac con artist who awakened into the future world after a lengthy period of cryogenic hibernation, and Radical Edward, a hyperactive and barefooted preteen girl with a reputation as a prolific computer hacker.

According to Barks, this period of his life would later influence his best known fictional characters: Walt Disney's Donald Duck and his own Scrooge McDuck.

It seems that this difficult period for the artist helped shape many of his later views in life that were expressed through his characters.

This was also the period where Jones created many of his lesser-known characters, including Charlie Dog, Hubie and Bertie, and The Three Bears.

Jones ' shorts from this period starring these characters represent some of his earliest classics that were strictly intended to be funny.

In combination with other aspects, theatrical costumes can help actors portray characters ' age, gender role, profession, social class, personality, ethnicity, and even information about the historical period / era, geographic location and time of day, as well as the season or weather of the theatrical performance.

Although the historical characters may have lived in an earlier period ( such as the Song or Tang dynasty ) most stories are written in the latter Ming or Qing period.

As global interconnectedness makes legitimate suspense more difficult to achieve, several writers — including Elizabeth Peters, P. C. Doherty, Steven Saylor, and Lindsey Davis — have eschewed fabricating convoluted plots in order to manufacture tension, instead opting to set their characters in some former period.

Little of Emily's work from this period survives, except for poems spoken by characters ( The Brontës ' Web of Childhood, Fannie Ratchford, 1941 ).

It was during this period that camera effects intended to convey the subjective feelings of characters in a film really began to be established.

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

By his middle period, sexual freedom and the elimination of sexual jealousy were a major theme of Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), in which the progressively minded but sexually conservative reporter, Ben Caxton, acts as a dramatic foil for the less parochial characters, Jubal Harshaw and Valentine Michael Smith ( Mike ).

It is commonplace for fictional characters appearing over a long period of time to remain the same age, or to age out of sync with real time.

Usually a short story focuses on one incident ; has a single plot, a single setting, and a small number of characters ; and covers a short period of time.

It " refuses to play the game " of other dramatists of the period, for instance George Bernard Shaw, who used their characters to draw audiences to grander ideals.

Historically, some kokuji date back to very early Japanese writing, being found in the Man ' yōshū, for example – 鰯 iwashi " sardine " dates to the Nara period ( 8th century ) – while they have continued to be created as late as the late 19th century, when a number of characters were coined in the Meiji era for new scientific concepts.