Ten years later, Dickens's Great Expectations contains many Hamlet-like plot elements: it is driven by revenge-motivated actions, contains ghost-like characters ( Abel Magwitch and Miss Havisham ), and focuses on the hero's guilt.

The fictional plot focuses on the protagonists ' lifelong duty and commitment to the state for several generations.

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.

The film focuses on a trio of employees who plot to murder their titular tyrannical supervisors.

The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man named Gaston who falls in love with her and eventually marries her.

The plot of the series focuses on the growth and reach of the Foundation, against a backdrop of the " decline and fall of the Galactic Empire ".

The plot focuses on a group of girls at an Australian women's college in the year 1900 who vanish during a Valentine's Day picnic at the site of an enormous rock formation.

Miller has claimed in interviews that inspiration for the plot came from Dirty Harry, perhaps specifically the 1983 film Sudden Impact, which like DKR focuses on an older Dirty Harry returning to fight crime after a lengthy convalescence.

A significant portion of the series ' plot focuses on the human characters ' efforts to identify all of the robot models which are embedded in the human population.

The plot focuses on a murderer whose increasing guilt leads him to believe he can hear his victim's heart still beating beneath the floorboards where he buried him.

The plot focuses on the title character, a spinster librarian.

The plot focuses on aging couple Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend each summer at their home on a lake called Golden Pond.

The plot of the film focuses on a team of cheerleaders attempting to earn enough money to send the titular character to Dallas, Texas, to try out for the famous “ Texas Cowgirls ” cheerleading squad.

The plot depicts the breakdown of society following the accidental release of a highly contagious " rage " virus and focuses upon the struggle of four survivors to cope with the destruction of the life they once knew.

The plot focuses on Scottie Templeton, a popular actor who has spent his life shirking responsibility.

The plot of A Link to the Past focuses on Link as he travels on a journey to save Hyrule, defeat Ganon and rescue the seven descendants of the Sages.

The film's plot focuses on Henry and The Purple Hand Gang fighting to prevent the closure of their school by an evil private school Headmaster.

The plot of the cartoon focuses on little Inki out hunting, oblivious to the fact that he himself is being hunted by a hungry lion.

The film focuses on a trio of employees who plot to murder their titular tyrannical supervisors.

The plot focuses on a prominent concert pianist, Charlotte Andergast ( Ingrid Bergman ), who has been neglectful and dismissive of her children, whom she has not seen in over seven years.

The plot focuses on two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for two dozen years.

* Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists

The movie focuses on a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II.

The plot focuses on two couples who are held hostage by a sadistic backwoods family on Halloween.

As we know, the Soviet peasant today still very largely thrives on being able to sell the produce grown on his private plot ; ;

You could not, of course, raise feed for the livestock on a plot this small.

You get back to the captain and tell him this: Somebody's going to take a shot at the prime minister, and Mahzeer is in on the plot.

At one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on trade with Cuba.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.

Though aware of the plot, Agrippina embarked on this boat and was nearly crushed by a collapsing lead ceiling only to be saved by the side of a sofa breaking the ceiling's fall.

The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.

Older avionics required a pilot or navigator to plot the intersection of signals on a paper map to determine an aircraft's location ; modern systems calculate the position automatically and display it to the flight crew on moving map displays.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

A plot showing 100 random numbers with a " hidden " sine function, and an autocorrelation ( correlogram ) of the series on the bottom.

The plot displays many classic elements of farce, including puns, the slamming of doors, cases of mistaken identity ( frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another ), and satirical comments on social class.

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Froling had planned to build his dream house on the plot of land he received through inheritance.

Dariush Mehrjui's film Sara ( 1993 ) is based on A Doll's House, with the plot transferred to Iran with Sara, played by Niki Karimi, is the Nora of Ibsen's play.

* Many of the parts of the " conspiracy " are based on errors or plot holes identified by fans of the original movie, such as Leon's ability to bring a gun into the Tyrell building, or the reference to the sixth replicant.

Its unconventional unfolding of plot ( exemplified in its mathematical layout of dialogue ) and its stress on perception have analogs in De Palma's filmmaking.

The plot centers on a conflict between Jonah and God.

Although secondary to its hack and slash gameplay, Castle of the Winds has a plot loosely based on Norse mythology, told with setting changes, unique items, and occasional passages of text.

We note that the plot of this curl has no dependence on y or z ( as it shouldn't ) and is in the negative z direction for positive x and in the positive z direction for negative x.

After an absence of three years, Tracy Barlow returned on 7 May 2010, in a plot to reduce her sentence by convincing cellmate Gail to confess to Joe's murder.

Hubbard blamed the hostile press coverage in particular on a plot by the American Communist Party.