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Conflict Is The Major Role of Central Characters

Characters in fictional literature can be categorized in several ways. Major or central characters are vital to developing and resolving the central conflict of the story. Minor characters help move the plot forward. Characters can also be round (complex with contradictions), dynamic (change over time), flat (one-dimensional), or static (unchanged). Stock characters are conventional stereotypes. The protagonist is the main character facing conflict, while the antagonist opposes them. Characterization can be direct through narration or indirect through a character's own words and actions.

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Conflict Is The Major Role of Central Characters

Characters in fictional literature can be categorized in several ways. Major or central characters are vital to developing and resolving the central conflict of the story. Minor characters help move the plot forward. Characters can also be round (complex with contradictions), dynamic (change over time), flat (one-dimensional), or static (unchanged). Stock characters are conventional stereotypes. The protagonist is the main character facing conflict, while the antagonist opposes them. Characterization can be direct through narration or indirect through a character's own words and actions.

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Character in Fictional Literature

 The sense of physical presence of people, fully fresh, and with inner life.

 It reveals motivation, flower in action; act or acted upon and exhibit growth, change, or
deterioration.

 The people (or animals, things, etc. presented as people) appearing in a literary work.

 An important part of characterization is Dialogue, for it is both spoken and inward dialogue that
afford us the opportunity to see into the characters' hearts and examine their motivations.

Types of Characters

 Major or Central characters - are vital to the development and resolution of the conflict. In
other words, the plot and resolution of conflict revolves around these characters. Resolving the
conflict is the major role of central characters.

 Minor characters - serve to complement the major characters and help move the plot events
forward.

 Round Characters – They are convincing, true to life. Have many different and sometimes, even
contradictory personality traits.

 Dynamic Characters – They undergo some type of change or development in the story, often
because something that happens to them.

 Flat Characters – They are stereotyped, shallow, or symbolic. Have only one or two personality
traits.

 Static Characters – They do not change in the course of the story.

 Stock characters - are those types of characters who have become conventional or stereotypical
through repeated use in particular types of stories.

 Protagonist – The main character in a literary work. He or she (or they) is faced with a conflict
that must be resolved. The protagonist may not always be admirable (e.g. an anti-hero);
nevertheless s/he must command involvement on the part of the reader, or better yet,
empathy.

 Antagonist – The character who opposes the protagonist. In other words, the antagonist is an
obstacle that the protagonist must overcome.

 Anti-Hero - A major character, usually the protagonist, who lacks conventional nobility of mind,
and who struggles for values not deemed universally admirable.
 Symbolic characters - is any major or minor character whose very existence represents some
major idea or aspect of society.

 Direct presentation (or characterization) - This refers to what the speaker or narrator directly
says or thinks about a character. In other words, in a direct characterization, the reader is told
what the character is like.

 Indirect presentation (or characterization) - This refers to what the character says or does. The
reader then infers what the character is all about. In other words, it's the reader who is obliged
to figure out what the character is like. And sometimes the reader will get it wrong.

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