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Dynamic characters are those that change over the course of the story, while static characters remain the same throughout. An example of a popular dynamic character in literature is Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. At the start of the story, he is a bitter miser, but by the end of the tale, he ...
A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal foundations of fictional characters, are also listed.
The manner of a character's speech is to literature what an actor's appearance and costume are to cinema. [10] In fiction, what a character says, as well as how they say it, makes a strong impression on the reader. [13] Each character should have their distinctive voice. [14]
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [1]
A list of lists of characters in fictional works, broken down by medium and sorted alphabetically by the name of the fictional work. Lists of book characters
The antagonist is the character who most opposes Hamlet, Claudius (though, in many ways, Hamlet is his own antagonist). [23] Sometimes, a work will have a false protagonist, who may seem to be the protagonist, but then may disappear unexpectedly. The character Marion in Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho (1960) is an example. [24]
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Extraterrestrial characters in literature (1 C, 2 P) F. Female characters in literature (11 C, 458 P) Fictional LGBTQ characters in literature (2 C, 58 P) M.