Character Analysis

iv) CHARACTER ANALYSIS

When you want to write a character analysis, you will be expected to describe a character's personality and role in the story. We get to know characters in our stories through the things they say, feel and do. It's not as difficult as it may seem to figure out a character's personality traits based on his/her thought and behaviours.

There are two types of character ;
i) Protagonist
The protagonist of a story is often called the main character. The plot revolves around the protagonist. There may be more than one main character.

ii) Antagonist
The antagonist is the character who represents a challenge or an obstacle to the protagonist in a story. In some stories, the antagonist is not even a person.

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Examples ;

The characters in The Necklace are ;

• Mathilde Loisel - The protagonist of the story. Mathilde has been blessed with physical beauty but not with the affluent lifestyle she yearns for and she feels deeply discontented with her lot in life. She she prepares to attend a fancy party, she borrows a diamond necklace from her friend Madame Forestier, then loses it and had to work for 10 years to pay off a replacement.
• Madame Forestier - Mathilde's wealthy friend. Forestier treats Mathilde kindly but Mathilde is bitterly jealous of Forestier's wealth and the kindness pains her. Forestier lends Mathilde the necklace for the party and does not inspect it when Mathilde returns it. She horrified to realize that Mathilde wasted her life to replace the fake diamond necklace with an original ones.

Here are some other useful terms for character analysis :

• Flat Character : A flat character has one or two personality traits that don't change. The flat character can play a major or a minor role.
• Round Character : A round character has many complex traits and those traits develop and change in a story. It seems more real than a flat character because people are complex.
• Stock or Stereotype Character : A character who represents a stereotype is a stock character. These characters exist to maintain widespread belief in "types". such as hot-tempered redheads, stingy businessman and absent-minded professors.
• Static Character : A static character never changes. A loud, obnoxious character who remains the same throughout the story is static. A boring character who is never changed by events is also static.
• Dynamic Character : Unlike a static character, a dynamic character does change and grow as the story unfolds. Dynamic characters respond to events and experience a change in attitude or out look.

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