#25! Week 12 Characters Tlk Themselves Alive Through Speech and Action pg.887-888

Summary

Characters come alive through their actions and speeches. To comprehend characters, the audience and readers must watch, listen see how other characters speak about them and understand how they react to their surroundings, other characters and circumstances. Drama is made to bring out an engaged characters reactions to conflicts in their lives. Characters are separated into protagonist characters (lead struggler), and antagonist characters (character who struggles against the lead): these characters usually have conflicts with each other. Like fiction drama has round, dynamic, developing, growing, flat, static, fixed, unchanging, realistic, and nonrealistic characters. Drama also has stereotype or stock characters, some of the most popular include: stubborn father, clever male, shrewish wife, trickster, private eye, corrupt politician and stupid aristocrat. There are also ancillary characters, or characters that antagonize the main characters and also provide inside action about the main character. There are three types of these ancillary characters, which include choric figure, foil and commentator, all of which can be symbolic to the story or characters of a play.

Reader Response      

I knew that the point of drama was to bring characters alive, by using their actions and words. I also knew that there were protagonists, antagonists, flat and round characters in drama, in any literature actually. I also knew that drama more often than not uses stereotypes either to prove points, create a new view of them or to symbolize different meanings by the authors. And of course I knew that there is usually a character that medals in the main characters life, either to create more ciaos, drama, or help the main character. It is because of these things that make readers like me interested in dramas and keeps me coming back for more, this writing can even make people want there fore create more drama in their lives.