THEA 3700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Character Analysis
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3 basic aspects of character analysis: literal what kind of person they are, functional how they interact and fit with other characters, connotative symbolic meaning. Literal: looks at personality and psychological traits to describe the character, may encompass circumstances that have affected the character, requires us to ask the following questions: Functional: rush lays out 7 different types, and characters may fill more than 1. Any character that serves as another character that someone confides in or delivers a message to friend, servant, messenger, stranger. Antagonist can be the confidant to the agent of action. Make plans with or in front of. Character who stands as comparison or contrast to another character in a moment. Allow us to see another personality handle the circumstances. May be many of these in a play and may correspond to a variety of characters: raisonneur. Derived from the french word raison ( to reason )
