Word: protagonists
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...time the novel reaches its own crisis Percy has launched so many conflicting ideas into the narrative--like a crazed club pro madly driving his golf balls into the fairway--that the reader has no idea which to follow, which to ignore. Will Barrett, Percy's protagonist, leads a remarkably untroubled life, driving his Mercedes 450 SEL to the golf course and then back home. Only memories disturb his endowed existence: as This Second Coming unfolds he mentally pieces together the events of a day in his early teens when, out on a hunting trip, his father tried simultaneously...
...theirs was undoubtedly a moment of liberation. One great preoccupation of late 19th century art, not only in France but across Europe, America and Australia, was light: the description of sunlight and its effects, not as an incidental portion of the painting, but as a main theme, almost a protagonist. This "glare" aesthetic, as Gerdts calls it, turned paintings into "mirrors from which dazzling sunlight is reflected back toward the spectator and upon which strong silhouettes of still clearly rendered forms may be cast...
...Strangers and Brothers," a sequence of eleven novels that appeared between 1940 and 1970, is a massive portrait of the men who make things work in England. Its protagonist, Lewis Eliot, follows a path very similar to Snow's; he rises from humble origins to prominence in the fields of science, education and government. He is both a participant in important decisions and a careful observer of those who wield and seek influence. Snow's abiding interest in such industrious achievers left him well behind modernism; he wrote about men in public roles at a time when most...
...portrait is a woman with "an inexhuastive capacity for enthusiasm and hope." As he does frequently throughout the book, Lash lets Helen describe herself to the reader. After she read Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Helen wrote a friend that she had found much of the protagonist in herself. Anne of Green Gables is indeed like Helen, Lash writes...
Then there is Hitchcock's masterly alternation of objective and subjective points of view in almost every scene. The first is used to present the audience with a few scary facts that the protagonist does not know. Then Hitchcock cuts to the subjective, showing events from the protagonist's incomplete point of view. Thus insinuated into the hero's shoes?or sometimes the villain's?the director could induce agonies of suspense in the viewer...