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plot and device
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.
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series uses the ansible as a plot device.
" Derleth himself believed that Lovecraft wished for other authors to actively write about the myth-cycle as opposed to it being a discrete plot device.
A. E. van Vogt used the idea as a plot device in his story " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ), which was later combined with the three other Space Beagle stories to became the novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle.
As a dramatic plot device, Clark often has to quickly improvise in order to find a way to change unnoticed.
A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.
* Miguel de Cervantes claims that all chapters but the first in Don Quixote are translated from an Arabic manuscript by Cide Hamete Benengeli, parodying a plot device of chivalry books.
In the frame of the book's plot, Wimsey's diplomatic obligations serve as a plot device to keep him away from Britain, and leave Harriet on her own for most of the book, to try to resolve the mystery at Oxford without his help.
The Supernatural Explained-as this technique was aptly named-is a recurring plot device in Radcliffe ’ s The Romance of the Forest.
While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).
One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as a mere plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatization of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire.
Then too, critics started to focus on Hamlet's delay as a character trait, rather than a plot device.
The language appeared intermittently in later films featuring the original cast-for example, in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), where translation difficulties served as a plot device.
It was used as both a plot device and as a means to allow Superman's actor, Bud Collyer, to take occasional time off.
Personal Best was criticized for engaging in the cliched plot device of one woman returning to a relationship with a man, implying that lesbianism is a phase, as well as treating the lesbian relationship with " undisguised voyeurism ".
The story of Matilda and Henry IV is the main plot device in Luigi Pirandello's play Enrico IV.
Over time, a few Marvel Comics writers lobbied Marvel editors to incorporate the idea of a Multiverse resembling DC's parallel worlds ; this plot device allows one to create several fictional universes which normally do not overlap ( see below or Multiverse for more information ).
Numerology is a popular plot device in fiction.
In terms of plot, or perhaps more accurately plot device, Plautus served as a source of inspiration and also provided the possibility of adaptation for later playwrights.
By 1969 the popular press had taken notice, to the point that it was used as a plot device in Star Trek, and sparked fears of a " polywater gap " in the USA.
* The old time radio show Duffy's Tavern had an episode which used a newly discovered diary of Stuyvesant as a plot device.
Significantly, in the theatre of the ancient Latin-speaking world, the mask was not used as a plot device to disguise the identity of a character, but rather was a convention employed to represent or typify that character.
A sequence of target returns can be monitored through a device known as a plot extractor.

plot and having
A straight line relationship is usually observed in a plot of Af against load L, having slope k, and Af.
The plot is described as having been planned by three men, but many in the Senate, army and equestrian order were said to have been informed of it and involved in it.
The strip resumed some time after the events in the musical, with further changes having taken place after the end of the musical ’ s plot.
The film was a breakthrough having a plot, action, and even a closeup of a hand pulling a fire alarm.
Mark Antony, having vaguely learned of the plot the night before from a terrified Liberator named Servilius Casca, and fearing the worst, went to head Caesar off.
Finally, after having escaped another plot by killing the assailant sent by the king, Moses fled to Arabia, where he married the daughter of Raguel, the ruler of the district.
Yoshiyuki Tomino's original plot for the anime was considerably much more grim, with Amuro dying halfway through the series, and the crew of the White Base having to ally with Char ( who is given a red Gundam ), but finally having to battle him after he takes control of the Principality of Zeon.
However, some hold that he was ignorant of the nature of the plot at the time, having been told the Huguenots had tried to take over the government but failed.
For example, humans see all Cardassian mystery stories as having an identical plot: the inevitable result is that all the suspects are eventually proved guilty of the crime and proving the supremacy of the state.
The film's central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization.
Voldemort has also been compared with other characters within fiction, for example Sauron from The Lord of the Rings ; they are, during the time when the main plot takes place, seeking to recover their lost power after having been considered dead or at least no longer a threat, and are also so feared that they are sometimes unnamed.
Many details may appear superfluous, but turn out to be integral to the plot ( such as a sofa that Richard ordered which has somehow become trapped on his staircase in a position where it not only cannot be removed, but could not apparently have arrived in the first place ; this is explained by the time machine having appeared in the staircase wall while the removal men were bringing it in, Dirk opening the door to help them get it up the stairs before the machine departed ).
Davison is buried in the church yard of St. Mary the Virgin Morpeth in a family plot, her father having died in 1893.
He furthermore noted that there was a " disconcerting randomness about the introduction of the supernatural " into the book's plot, with the supernatural elements simply appearing without having been worked into a wider world universe.
Before Morton's execution in 1581, he admitted having knowledge of the murder plot, and that Bothwell and Archibald Douglas were " chief actors " in Darnley's murder.
The plot is depicted in the film as having Mary's tacit approval.
Mao Dun's next major work was Hong ( 1929 ), which became famous for having no less than 70 main characters and numerous plot twists and turns.
Avery also endeared himself to intellectuals by constantly breaking through the artifice of the cartoon, having characters leap out of the end credits, loudly object to the plot of the cartoon they were starring in, or speak directly to the audience.
The film Back to the Future pays homage to the Harold Lloyd " dangling from the skyscraper " by having one of the film's stars Christopher Lloyd ( no relation to Harold ) hang from a clock tower as part of the plot.
After having read Tim Powers ' historical fantasy novel On Stranger Tides, he decided to add paranormal themes to the game's plot.
Writers can deal with plot holes in different ways, from completely rewriting the story, to having characters acknowledge illogical or unintelligent actions, to having characters make vague statements that could be used to deflect accusations of plot holes ( e. g. " I've tried everything I can think of ..." to keep critics from asking why a particular action was not taken ).

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