His fiction often has religious overtones or motifs, particularly evident in characters who have no control over their actions.

Potential for comedy lay in his use of ' contemporary ' characters, in his sophisticated tone, his relatively informal Greek ( see In Greek below ), and in his ingenious use of plots centred on motifs that later became standard in Menander's New Comedy, such as the ' recognition scene '.

Outside of works that predate the publication of Murray's thesis, horned god motifs and characters appear in fantasy literature that draws upon her work and that of her followers.

In Der fliegende Holländer Wagner uses a number of leitmotifs ( literally, " leading motifs ") associated with the characters and themes.

Fairy tales with very similar plots, characters, and motifs are found spread across many different cultures.

* American Playwright Tennessee Williams's older sister Rose received a lobotomy which left her incapacitated for life ; the episode is said to have inspired characters and motifs in certain of his works.

Gleyre himself adopted the tenets of neo-classicism more strictly than others at the time, adopting the classical style and aesthetic, but almost exclusively applying it to myths and motifs from antiquity, recalling both characters from Greek myth, and antique emblems such as bacchantes and putti.

In common with other literary approaches ( and in contrast to historical forms of criticism ), narrative criticism treats the text as a unit, and focusses on narrative structure and composition, plot development, themes and motifs, characters and characterisation.

They also employed " reminiscence motifs ", recurring musical themes associated with characters or concepts in the opera, which would pave the way for Wagner's use of the leitmotif.

Originally, it is an mural art that blends prominently the colorful amazonian culture, European motifs and commercial characters, which may be influenced by American pop art, especially MTV.

Later, in the pre-Viking and Viking age, there is material evidence which seems to indicate a growing sophistication in Norse religion, such as artifacts portraying the gripdjur ( gripping-beast ) motifs, interlacing art and jewelry, Mjolnir pendants and numerous weapons and bracteates with runic characters scratched or cast into them.

The series shares some motifs with apocalyptic literature, like the disclosure of future events through dreams, and establishes a dual nature to its characters and concepts.

Other familiar motifs show up during the course of the series, including Frieza's son Kuriza, a fat Super Saiyan named Onio ( following the Saiyans ' vegetable pun trend, this one is an obvious pun of onion ), and even cameos by actual Dragon Ball characters Vegeta, Majin Buu, and Son Goku.

Writer-director Peter Hyams has transported the characters and motifs from the dusty frontier town of Gary Cooper to the frontiers of space.

It has an intricate design that embellishes the characters with motifs of animals, snakes, birds and insects.

Ladies ' jinbei tend to be more brightly coloured and often feature prints of popular culture characters and motifs.

His signature artistic style and motifs ( cute / disturbing anime-esque characters rendered in bright colors, flat and highly glossy surfaces, life-size sculptures of anime figurines ) derived from this strategic concept.

Among his most famous recurring motifs are smiling flowers, iconic characters, mushrooms, skulls, Buddhist iconography, and the sexual complexes of otaku culture.

However, Dandelion Wine better represents the idyllic days, whereas Something Wicked explores the darker nights, combining folk-tale characters with supernatural elements to relate otherwise fantastical and gothic-themed motifs to American daily life.

He also used the same motifs to draw a variety of characters ; for example, the skinny guy and the fat guy in the city.

There are nine playable stages in Versus mode, eight based on each of the starting characters ( such as Princess Peach's Castle for Mario, Zebes for Samus, and Sector Z for Fox ) and the unlockable Mushroom Kingdom, based around motifs from the original Super Mario Bros. ( from which the English-language name of the Smash series comes ), even containing original sprites and the original version of the Overworld theme from that game.

Other reviewers, such as Michael Faber of The Guardian, and a six-person roundtable discussion of the book conducted by Charles Hatfield of The Comics Journal, while lauding the quality of Thompson's visuals and his use of various Eastern motifs, narrative parallels and intertwining plots and subplots, had negative reactions to the book's length, or the degree of sexual cruelty inflicted upon the main characters.

** Analogue ( literature ), a literary work that shares motifs, characters or events with another, but is not directly derived from it

Smith's recurring characters, settings, and motifs first appeared in his debut film, Clerks.

Barrymore's role in the costume drama Ever After ( 1998 ) offered a modern take on the classic fairy tale of Cinderella and served as a reminder, according to Roger Ebert, of how well Drew Barrymore " can hold the screen and involve us in her characters ".

These plays, influenced by the fairy work of James Planché, are founded upon the idea of self-revelation by characters under the influence of some magic or some supernatural interference.

Baum's avowed intentions with the Oz books, and other fairy tales, was to tell such tales as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen told, bringing them up to date by making the characters not stereotypical dwarfs or genies, and by removing both the violence and the moral to which the violence was to point.

* The 10th Kingdom miniseries requires the use of a magic mirror for the characters to change setting between modern day New York City ( the 10th Kingdom ), and the Nine Kingdoms of fairy tale, primarily the 4th Kingdom from Snow White.

Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.

Inspiration for the series is taken from multiple sources ; in addition to numerous traditional Christian themes, characters and ideas are freely borrowed from Greek, Turkish and Roman mythology, as well as from traditional British and Irish fairy tales.

It has the trademark humour of Goldman, and the unexpected fairy tale twist akin to an anti-fairy tale as the characters never end up as what we imagined or expect in fairy tales.

A fairy tale ( pronounced / ˈfeəriˌteɪl /) is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments.

The first collectors to attempt to preserve not only the plot and characters of the tale, but also the style in which they were told, were the Brothers Grimm, collecting German fairy tales ; ironically, this meant although their first edition ( 1812 & 1815 ) remains a treasure for folklorists, they rewrote the tales in later editions to make them more acceptable, which ensured their sales and the later popularity of their work.

These plays, influenced by the fairy work of James Planché, are founded upon the idea of self-revelation by characters under the influence of some magic or some supernatural interference.

Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature.

It featured stars dressed as fairy tale, television and historical characters.

These characters have appeared in literary fiction – including penny dreadfuls, pulp comics, Victorian, Romanticism and Renaissance literature, steampunk, Gothic novels, fairy tales, mythology and folklore – as well as in film, television programs, comic book series and graphic novels, radio shows, and even video games.

Research findings suggest a possible relationship between a child's continued belief in the tooth fairy ( and other fictional characters ) and false memory syndrome.

A property of their nature is the production and possession of fairy dust, the magic material which enables flying within the story for all characters except Peter, who was taught to fly by the birds ( as described by Barrie in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens ), and later by the fairies in Kensington Gardens.

Numbers, like fairy tale characters, are merely mental entities, which would not exist if there were never any human minds to think about them.

A fairy initiated a " transformation scene " that transformed the pantomime characters and scenes into the harlequinade.

The main characters, Leander and Julie, are moved by a fairy to a future ( AD 7603 ) in which gender roles have been switched and only women are allowed to fight in the military.

The series amalgamates characters from fairy tales and folklore, as well as children's literature ; Shere Kahn, for instance, is shot dead by Snow White, whilst Mowgli is employed as a spy by Big Bad Wolf.

Despite the title of the fairy tale, the characters never actually arrive in Bremen.

In the 2000 eight-hour movie ( broadcast as a mini-series ) The 10th Kingdom, Scott Cohen plays a character called Wolf, which is based on the Big Bad Wolf and there is some speculation to whether he may even be the Big Bad Wolf's descendant ( mainly owed to the fact that most other characters in the mini-series are descendants of many well-known fairy tale characters ).