CHARACTER ANALYSIS
1、死亡诗社
Mr. Nolan (the headmaster)
Highlights
a. (at the ceremony) delivers a speech, emphasizing Light of Knowledge and The Four Pillars (Tradition, honor, discipline and excellence)
b. (in the classroom) questions Keating 's conduct in the courtyard and warn him not to mislead the students
Personality Traits
conrvative, narrow-minded
Mr. Keating (Teacher of English Literature)
Highlights
a. (on the corridor) shocks the students a bit by encouraging them to call him oh captain, my captain and to ize the day (carpe diem)
b. (in the classroom) gives the boys further shocks by pressing them to rip out the preface to a cour book and urges them to think about the meaning of poetry and life
c. (on the campus) be stopped by the boys; shares with them his cret of Dead Poets Society and his experience of "sucking the marrow of life"伤感壁纸
d. (in the classroom) renders Shakespeare in a funny way; ask the students to stand on the desk to look at things in a different way.
e. (in the courtyard) makes the boys walk at their own paces to show them that being unique is important.
Personality Traits
卷发棒Romantic; open; imaginative; unconventional; passionate; amiable; knowledgeable; idealistic
Neil
Highlights
a. (in Keating's dorm) confines to Keating his fear and worries about his father 's objection to his interest in theatre
b. (in his father's study) takes his own life with his father 's gun.
Personality Traits社保卡更换
romantic; sunny; friendly; gifted; weak
Cameron
Highlights
a. (on Keating's class) be puzzled by and uncomfortable with Keating's methodology
b. (in the attic) shouts "Let Keating fry" and "Why ruin our lives"
Personality Traits
traditional and conformist; passive; ordinary; lfish
2、元旦快乐英语喜福会
One of the major themes that the movie furnishes is male chauvinism or xism which characterizes any patriarchal society and is common to both Chine and American cultures. This movie portrays a ries of men and women either in China before 1949 or in modern America who acts engendered and aggravated(导致和加重） the pains of the protagonists.
Huang Taitai (Lindo's mother-in-law)
Highlights
1. Treats Lindo as a tool for bearing children and ignorantly blame her for being sterile.
2. Confine Lindo to bed, hoping to make her pregnant soon.
Symbolic meaning
She is tyrannical and manipulative
She is the female epitome of defending the fostering male-oriented values.
Yingying's first husband
Highlights
1. Being philandering and treats his wife brutally.
Symbolic meaning
He reprents the extreme of the evil power in patriarchal old China.
Wu Tsing (the cond husband of Anmei's Mother)
Highlights
1. Being at the mercy of of his cond wife.
2. Mistreats Anmei's mother and drives her to despair.
Symbolic meaning
He reprents the extreme of the evil power in patriarchal old China.
Harold (Lena's ex-husband)
Highlights
1. Being the boss of his wife both in job and at home.
2. Secures as many advantages as possible at his wife's expens.
Symbolic meaning
He is a modern version of male chauvinism which banks on economic power.
3、朱仙镇简介时尚女魔头
The movie resolves around two women. Sparks fly when the old and sophisticated “devil” meets the young and ambitious intern.
Miranda Priestly (the Editor-in-Chief of Runway Magazine
Highlights
(in the lobby) looks intimidating subordinates dare not share the elevator with her.
(in the office) holds that Andrea turns out to be more disappointing than any of the other silly girls after Andrea fails to get a plane to get her home on a stormy night.
(in the office) makes the emingly impossible demand in order to banish Andrea, asking her to get the unpublished manuscript of Harry potter.
(in the hotel) worries about the effect of her divorce on her two daughters.
(in the car) tells Andrea that she has already known the plot to replace her and taken action to keep her job at Runway.
Personality traits贫困助学金申请书
A dragon lady; demanding; bossy; merciless, sophisticated; career-obsd
Andrea Sachs ( the New Second Assistant)
Highlights
菠菜炒蛋(in the office) ill-dresd, which makes her an object of scorn around the office.
假奶粉(in the office) begins to dress more stylishly under the guidance of art director Nigel.
(in the office) does her job competently and fulfill the almost impossible task to get the unpublished manuscript.
(in Paris) choos for herlf, leaving Miranda and Runway.
