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In literature, a character sketch, or character, is a rough-and-ready rendering and thumbnail portrayal of an individual, capturing, in brief, that person's physical characteristics, psychological attributes, and the like. The brief descriptions often capitalize on the more unusual or humorous aspects of the person's character.
Sketches by "Boz," was Charles Dickens first book. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people, and the whole work is divided into four sections: "Our Parish", "Scenes", "Characters" and "Tales". The material in the first three sections consists of non-narrative pen-portraits, but the last section comprises fictional stories.
A sketch story, literary sketch or simply sketch, is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot.The genre was invented after the 16th century in England, as a result of increasing public interest in realistic depictions of "exotic" locales. [1]
The following characters are interwoven through the set of twelve stories of Sunshine Sketches: Josh Smith, proprietor of Smith's Hotel, one of the leading citizens of the town. Jefferson Thorpe, owner of the barber shop, who engages in mining speculations. Golgotha Gingham, the undertaker, to whom people are less interesting when still alive.
Post-modern literature rejects the conventional “novel” structure and notions of a chronological plot and character development. [10] Techniques in postmodern literature such as minimalistic, “ slice of life ” stories and fragmentation became popular, which are also key characteristics of vignettes.
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, under which a person traveling at near light speed would experience only the passage of a few years but would return to find centuries had passed on Earth, provides a broad new scope to express essentially the same literary theme – for example, in the opening chapter of Ursula K. Le Guin's Rocannon's World.
Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare.In the play, she disguises herself as a male shepherd named Ganymede. Many actors have portrayed Rosalind, including Sarah Wayne Callies, Maggie Smith, Elisabeth Bergner, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen Mirren, Patti LuPone, Helen McCrory, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrian Lester and ...
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 ...