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- * Inherent Weaknesses
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| * Inherent Weaknesses Can force his wife, children, or people to act according to a strict and oppressive set of rules, can remove himself entirely from the emotional realm of his family and kingdom, or may insist that his family and people live solely for his pleasure and benefit. * Examples King Arthur, Zeus, The Tempest, The Godfather, Rick in Casablanca Lover * Strength Provides the care, understanding, and sensuality that can make someone a complete and happy person. * Inherent Weaknesses Can lose himself in the other or force the other to stand in his shadow. 3 * Examples Paris in the Iliad, Heathcliff and Cathy in Wuthering Heights, Aphrodite, Romeo and Juliet, Etta in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Philadelphia Story, Hamlet, The English Patient, Kay in The Godfather, Camille, Moulin Rouge, Tootsie, Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca. Rebel * Strength Has the courage to standout from the crowd and act against a system that is enslaving people. * Inherent Weakness Often cannot or does not provide abetter alternative, so ends up only destroying the system or the society. * Examples Prometheus, Loki, Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, American Beauty, Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, Achilles in the Iliad, Hamlet, Rick in Casablanca, Character change in learning stories is not simply a matter of watching a character gain some new nugget of understanding of himself at the end of the story. The audience must actually participate in the character change and become various characters throughout the storytelling process, not only by experiencing the characters' different points of view but also by having to figure out whose point of view the audience is seeing. Clearly, the possibilities of character change are limitless. Your hero's development depends on what beliefs he starts with, how he challenges them, and how they have changed by the end of the story. This is one of the ways that you make the story uniquely yours. But certain kinds of character change are more common than others. Let's look at some of them, not because you have to use one of them in your story, but because understanding them will help you master this all-important technique in your own writing. Download 0.98 Mb. Share with your friends:
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