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structure, unlike core characters, for which any significant conflict must be traced during a considerable time, which is often seen as an unjustified waste of resources. There may also be a continuing or recurring guest character. Sometimes a guest or minor character may gain unanticipated popularity and turn into a regular or main one; this is known as a
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Aristotle suggests that works were distinguished in the first instance according to the nature of the person who created them: "the grander people represented fine actions, i.e. those of fine persons" by producing "hymns and praise-poems", while "ordinary people represented those of inferior ones" by
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Its use as 'the sum of the qualities which constitute an individual' is a mC17 development. The modern literary and theatrical sense of 'an individual created in a fictitious work' is not attested in OED until mC18: 'Whatever characters any... have for the jestsake personated... are now thrown off'
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is a representation not of human beings but of action and life. Happiness and unhappiness lie in action, and the end is a sort of action, not a quality; people are of a certain sort according to their characters, but happy or the opposite according to their actions. So do not act in order to
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Originally, the Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli character was to be a comic relief dropout type, put there for comic contrast to the whitebread Richie and his pals. He was a tall, lanky guy, but when Henry
Winkler blew everybody away at his reading, they decided to cut Fonzie down to Henry's size.
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A guest or minor character is one who acts only in a few episodes or scenes. Unlike regular characters, the guest ones do not need to be carefully incorporated into the storyline with all its ramifications: they create a piece of drama and then disappear without consequences to the narrative
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characters. Flat characters are two-dimensional, in that they are relatively uncomplicated. By contrast, round characters are complex figures with many different characteristics, that undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.
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for their characters. A charactonym is a name that implies the psychological makeup of the person, makes an allegorical allusion, or makes reference to their appearance. For example, Shakespeare has an emotional young male character named
255:, authors create dynamic characters using various methods. Sometimes characters are conjured up from imagination; in other instances, they are created by amplifying the character trait of a real person into a new fictional creation.
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An author or creator basing a character on a real person can use a person they know, a historical figure, a current figure whom they have not met, or themselves, with the latter being either an author-surrogate or an example of
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In television, a regular, main or ongoing character is a character who appears in all or a majority of episodes, or in a significant chain of episodes of the series. Regular characters may be both core and secondary ones.
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or cinema, involves "the illusion of being a human person". In literature, characters guide readers through their stories, helping them to understand plots and ponder themes. Since the end of the 18th century, the phrase
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dispositions of those performing the action clear. If, in speeches, the speaker "decides or avoids nothing at all", then those speeches "do not have character" (1450b9â11). Aristotle argues for the primacy of
596:(1450a12). He understands character not to denote a fictional person, but the quality of the person acting in the story and reacting to its situations (1450a5). He defines character as "that which reveals
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The study of a character requires an analysis of its relations with all of the other characters in the work. The individual status of a character is defined through the network of oppositions (proairetic,
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or supporting character often and frequently appears from time to time during the series' run. Recurring characters often play major roles in more than one episode, sometimes being the main focus.
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Baldick (2001, 37) and Childs and Fowler (2006, 23). See also "character, 10b" in
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600:, of whatever sort" (1450b8). It is possible, therefore, to have stories that do not contain "characters" in Aristotle's sense of the word, since character necessarily involves making the
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as the basis for character traits. Generally, when an archetype from some system (such as Jung's) is used, elements of the story also follow the system's expectations in terms of
103:). The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, in which case the distinction of a "fictional" versus "real" character may be made. Derived from the
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Janko (1987, 8). Aristotle defines the six qualitative elements of tragedy as "plot, character, diction, reasoning, spectacle and song" (1450a10); the three objects are plot (
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633:"composing invectives" (1448b20â1449a5). On this basis, a distinction between the individuals represented in tragedy and in comedy arose: tragedy, along with
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characters are those that change over the course of the story, while
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Another type of flat character is a "walk-on", a term used by
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An author can also create a fictional character using generic
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Theatre as Sign-System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance
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An author can create a character using the basic character
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shifts in society and its ideas about human individuality,
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A character who stands as a representative of a particular
137:.) Character, particularly when enacted by an actor in the
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or group of people is known as a type. Types include both
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117:, although it became widely used after its appearance in
1222:(2 ed.). Duke University Press, 1996. p. 36.
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is defined as involving three types of characters: the
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Literary scholar Patrick Grant matches characters from
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characters, whose costumes and demeanor indicate the
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318:which are common to many cultural traditions: the
154:of creating characters, as practiced by actors or
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1706:The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms.
1609:Aston and Savona (1991, 34) and Janko (1987, 8).
1531:"They really were a great bunch of happy people"
1462:. University of Texas Press. pp. 147, 151.
127:" developed. (Before this development, the term
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1216:Hoffman, Michael J; Patrick D. Murphy (1996).
461:(efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless)
449:(friendly/compassionate vs. critical/rational)
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1931:Paisley Livingston; Andrea Sauchelli (2011).
1646:Carlson (1993, 23) and Janko (1987, 45, 170).
1397:. Random House Publishing Group. p. 40.
592:tragedy and one of the three objects that it
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436:model of personality. The five factors are:
1793:Larousse Dictionary of Literary Characters.
1751:The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms.
467:(sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident)
455:(inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)
1967:
1953:
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1421:Crafty TV Writing: Thinking Inside the Box
1293:Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
443:(outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved)
1486:Vault Guide to Television Writing Careers
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1370:. Cornell University Press. p. 139.
1189:Hauke, Christopher; Alister, Ian (2001).
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150:by an actor. Since the 19th century, the
146:" has been used to describe an effective
1689:Aston, Elaine, and George Savona. 1991.
1041:Aston and Savona (1991, 34), quotation:
650:(which may or may not be by Aristotle),
1749:Childs, Peter, and Roger Fowler. 2006.
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478:are characters that usually appear in
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326:, and so on. Some writers make use of
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588:) is one of six qualitative parts of
51:roles that they portray in this genre
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1326:Bennett, Lucy, Booth, Paul (2016).
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1857:Dictionary of Literary Characters.
1795:Edinburgh and New York: Larousse.
1778:The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama
1693:. London and New York: Routledge.
1364:Chatman, Seymour Benjamin (1980).
558:In the earliest surviving work of
113:, the English word dates from the
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3041:Third-person omniscient narrative
1823:The Batsford Dictionary of Drama.
1066:Harrison (1998, 51-2) quotation:
389:to a giant and the huge whale in
1753:London and New York: Routledge.
1788:. Originally published in 1980.
1014:"character" sense 17.a citing,
296:Archetypes and stock characters
259:Real people, in part or in full
2429:Conflict between good and evil
856:Secret character (video games)
211:between the characters reveal
173:and those that are more fully
27:Fictional being in a narrative
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1836:Janko, Richard, trans. 1987.
1172:"Tolkien: Archetype and Word"
1160:Childs and Fowler (2006, 23).
968:Novel Characters: A Genealogy
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1791:Goring, Rosemary, ed. 1994.
1516:English Learner Movie Guides
1142:Aston and Savona (1991, 41).
1133:Aston and Savona (1991, 35).
694:). All three are central to
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1260:Pelican, Kira-Anne (2020).
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717:was well established. His
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3068:Stream of unconsciousness
2599:Falling action/Catastasis
1855:McGovern, Una, ed. 2004.
1489:. Vault Inc. p. 62.
965:Maria DiBattista (2011).
2436:Self-fulfilling prophecy
1806:Harrison, Martin. 1998.
1305:10.1177/0146167202289008
922:Matthew Freeman (2016).
582:deduces that character (
310:with Jungian archetypes.
3063:Stream of consciousness
2526:Suspension of disbelief
1808:The Language of Theatre
1734:Carlson, Marvin. 1993.
1456:Smith, Greg M. (2009).
1391:Sandler, Ellen (2008).
1266:. Bloomsbury Academic.
1178:(Winter 1973): 365â380.
1170:Grant, Patrick (1973).
2604:Denouement/Catastrophe
2585:Rising action/Epitasis
1885:Pringle, David. 1987.
1870:Pavis, Patrice. 1998.
1844:. Cambridge: Hackett.
1821:Hodgson, Terry. 1988.
1719:Burke, Kenneth. 1945.
1704:Baldick, Chris. 2001.
1483:Kukoff, David (2006).
1418:Epstein, Alex (2006).
1243:Forster, E.M. (1927).
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453:openness to experience
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288:which revolves around
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1859:Edinburgh: Chambers.
1810:. London: Routledge.
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746:Advertising character
552:Further information:
514:, the protagonist of
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3262:Fictional characters
2504:Narrative techniques
2284:Story within a story
2096:Supporting character
1939:. 42, 2 (2): 337â60.
1937:New Literary History
1770:Sign Systems Studies
1764:Eco, Umberto. 2009.
1721:A Grammar of Motives
1581:Janko (1987, 9, 84).
1529:Miller, Ron (2005).
1426:Macmillan Publishers
1246:Aspects of the Novel
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1124:Baldick (2001, 265).
1025:Troilus and Cressida
861:Supporting character
831:Non-player character
652:Ancient Greek comedy
414:Aspects of the Novel
360:Some authors create
177:. The characters in
71:or other being in a
30:For other uses, see
3209:Political narrative
3051:Unreliable narrator
2908:Speculative fiction
2616:Nonlinear narrative
2564:Three-act structure
2424:Deal with the Devil
1664:Carlson (1993, 22).
1097:The Reading Teacher
801:Composite character
766:Character animation
554:Poetics (Aristotle)
534:recurring character
351:William Shakespeare
3187:Narrative paradigm
3182:Narrative identity
3112:Dominant narrative
3058:Multiple narrators
2342:Fictional location
2185:Dramatic structure
1825:London: Batsford.
1776:Elam, Keir. 2002.
1655:Janko (1987, 170).
1563:), and reasoning (
1537:on July 16, 2011.
975:. pp. 14â20.
932:. pp. 31â34.
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756:Breaking character
615:) over character (
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542:breakout character
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280:historical fiction
237:self-determination
158:, has been called
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2626:television series
2571:Freytag's Pyramid
2414:Moral development
2317:Alternate history
2027:False protagonist
1889:London: Grafton.
1744:978-0-8014-8154-3
1512:"Man on the Moon"
1496:978-1-58131-371-0
1469:978-0-292-77784-2
1404:978-0-307-49221-0
1377:978-0-8014-9186-3
1336:US. p. 160.
1273:978-1-5013-5722-0
1229:978-0-8223-1823-1
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1151:Elam (2002, 133).
1109:10.1598/RT.60.6.5
1085:Pavis (1998, 47).
1070:(1749, Fielding,
709:comic playwright
517:A Christmas Carol
459:conscientiousness
322:, mother figure,
191:August Strindberg
130:dramatis personae
89:television series
16:(Redirected from
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2715:Narrative poetry
2611:Linear narrative
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