"The hard thing was that the two main characters who are stand-ins for the audience — Matilda and her teacher Miss Honey — were these opaque and passive characters who are massively abused.
Her disappearance -- like the abrupt, sometimes violent events that occur in many Tyler novels, propelling heretofore passive characters into a re-evaluation of their lives -- does not bring her parents closer together, but instead results in another round of accusations and recriminations.
It has been suggested that the character of Dorothy is based on Gage – while traditional fairy tales portrayed females as passive characters waiting to be rescued, Dorothy fends for herself and helps the male characters she meets.
I don't write about passive characters.
Fontes turns the painting's passive characters, the woman and a horse, into the focal point of her piece.
After seeing the film, I was pre-occupied with its portrayal of African Americans as passive characters while white male characters serve as the agents of change in bringing about Emancipation.
