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For Fromm, character types can be productive or unproductive. Fromm notes that character structures develop in each individual to enable him or her to interact successfully within a given society and adapt to its mode of production and social norms (see social character), and may be very counter-productive when used in a different society.
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A character arc is the transformation or inner journey [1] of a character over the course of a story. If a story has a character arc, the character begins as one sort of person and gradually transforms into a different sort of person in response to changing developments in the story.
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According to Fromm, the concept integrates Marx's theory concerning how the mode of production determines ideology with Freud's concept of character. [2] While individual character describes the richness of the character structure of an individual, the social character describes the emotional attitudes common to people in a social class or society.
Up-down structure (⿱): The character is formed by a component above another component, such as 昌, 号 and 召. Up-middle-down structure (⿳): The character is formed by a component at the top, a component at the bottom and a component in the middle, such as 鼻, 曼 and 率. Complete-surrounding (⿴ ): such as 國, 围 and 回.
The term characterization was introduced in the 19th century. [3] Aristotle promoted the primacy of plot over characters, that is, a plot-driven narrative, arguing in his Poetics that tragedy "is a representation, not of men, but of action and life."