Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.

This is what necessitates the nonsystematic character of his astronomy.

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.

I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

The theory behind this is, of course, fundamentalist in character.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.

Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

* In the series of games known as the Touhou Project, there is a character named Fujiwara no Mokou, who was a member of the Fujiwara clan long ago and is implied to be the daughter of Fujiwara no Fuhito.

At this time he fell in love with a married daughter of King Robert of Naples ( known as Robert the Wise ) and she is immortalized as the character " Fiammetta " in many of Boccaccio's prose romances, particularly Il Filocolo ( 1338 ).

In later installments Tapp's character would hardly be seen at all but was always referenced to by his spoiled daughter.

* Fah Lo Suee is the daughter of Fu Manchu and is the final character from the novels to appear in the comic.

Gellar's first major break came in 1992, when she starred in the serial Swans Crossing and was subsequently cast in the soap opera All My Children, playing Kendall Hart, the long-lost daughter of character Erica Kane ( Susan Lucci ).

Actor / comedian Robin Williams revealed in an interview with Jimmy Fallon that his daughter Zelda Rae is named after the title character in the series.

The character Pippi Longstocking was invented for her daughter to amuse her while she was ill and bed-ridden.

In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.

She appeared in two Harrison Ford films, Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and its sequel, Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), where she played Sally Ryan, the daughter of Ford's character Jack Ryan.

Pantalone's character has transcended through the decades ; " were we to seek his present-day counterpart we should not be far wrong in thinking of a middle-aged businessman, wealthy and well esteemed, apt at times to dally with ladies full of doubtful virtue, at other times as apt to show himself the devoted father anxious to protect a young son or puzzled by the actions of a daughter he does not understand ".

In addition to his appearance in Through the Looking-Glass, as a character Humpty Dumpty has been used in a large range of literary works, including L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose ( 1901 ), where the rhyming riddle is devised by the daughter of the king, having witnessed Humpty's " death " and her father's soldiers ' efforts to save him.

Some of the characters also have prototypes in the ballads: Dick Deadeye is based on a character in " Woman's Gratitude " ( 1869 ); an early version of Ralph Rackstraw can be seen in " Joe Go-Lightly " ( 1867 ), with its sailor madly in love with the daughter of someone who far outranks him ; and Little Buttercup is taken almost wholesale from " The Bumboat Woman's Story " ( 1870 ).

Penelope is the wife of the main character, the king of Ithaca, Odysseus ( Ulysses in Roman mythology ), and daughter of Icarius and his wife Periboea.

Pierrot, on the other hand, as a " second " zanni, is a static character in his earliest incarnations, standing on the periphery of the action, dispensing advice that seems to him sage, and courting — unsuccessfully — his master's young daughter, Columbine, with bashfulness and indecision.

The story can be traced back to The Ballad of Mulan and Disney's Mulan casts the title character in much the same way as the original legenda tomboy daughter of a respected veteran, somewhat troubled by not being the " sophisticated lady " her society expects her to be.

She is the ( future ) daughter of another character and seems to be able to appear anywhere in time and space.

John Pontifex was a carpenter ; his son George rises in the world to become a publisher ; George's son Theobald, pressed by his father to become a minister, is manipulated into marrying Christina, the daughter of a clergyman ; the main character Ernest Pontifex is the eldest son of Theobald and Christina.

Boromir, as a character, is portrayed as having been born in the year 2978 of the Third Age to Denethor II and Finduilas, daughter of Adrahil of Dol Amroth.

Chandler merged the two fathers into a new character and did the same for the two daughters resulting in General Sternwood and his wild daughter Carmen.

C. S. Forester's 1937 novel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a character El Supremo who claims to be a descendant of Alvarado by a ( fictional ) marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma.

She is married to an unseen character, Lars, a dermatologist, and has a precocious daughter, Bess.

* Khione ( The Lost Hero ), daughter of Boreas, a character in the book The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

" The common critical consensus of HCE's fixed character is summarised by Bishop as being " an older Protestant male, of Scandinavian lineage, connected with the pubkeeping business somewhere in the neighbourhood of Chapelizod, who has a wife, a daughter, and two sons.