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Plots, Protagonists, Subjects and Themes (Plots (Th Quest (The protagonist…
Plots, Protagonists, Subjects and Themes
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Plots
Voyage and Return
Plots are linear, as events unroll through time.
Th Quest
The protagonist deliberately sets out from home on a dangerous journey to seek something, often with companions.
Usually at some level for the deaf protagonist to find their deaf identity or their true home in the deaf community.
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Rebirth or Redemption
The protagonist redeems a bad situation, making it better.
Man against Monster
The monster may be human, animal or plant. (in whatever form, it has some human characteristics)
The monster can also be more abstract problems, such as fear, ghilt, or ignorance.
In sign language literature, protagonists often encounter a monster (someone or something powerful that creates problems for the protagonist)
Comedy
Comedies are nor necessarily humorous but are plots where there is a transition from ignorance to knowledge.
Stories with a happy ending of liberation, fulfillment or understanding are comedies.
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Plot
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Sign languages, as kinetic languages, are natural vehicles for showing action, and where action leads, plots soon follow.
Deaf communities are bilingual and bi-cultural, and signers are familiar with at least some of the folklore or other creative culture of surrounding hearing societies.
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Deaf and hearing people share their own folkloric traditions and cultural history with their natural communities.
When signed pieces are original works rather than translation of works from outside the deaf community,the plots (in some way) also reflect a deaf person's view of the world and of how to live in it.
Subjects and theme
The subjects of a story or poem is a concrete and literal topic, being what the text is about.
The events that occur in the piece and the behavior of the characters that form its subject will be ways to represent the theme.
Themes are higher-order abstract ideas, such as life, death, eternity, justice, youth, fear, love and power.
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Theme are universal and timeless, they relate to society, which is not universal, so it is important to understand how a deaf poet's view of society is reflected in the universal themes.
Themes are often shown through thematic personifications- representing them through a person experiencing that particular theme.
Sign language offers an ideal means for thematic personification as poets can embody an abstract notion.