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    This document discusses techniques for characterizing characters in plays, including their motivations, roles, and devices used for characterization. It covers explicit techniques like direct descriptions from the author or other characters, as well as implicit techniques shown through a character's actions, dialogue, asides, and how they are portrayed over time on stage. The document provides an overview of character analysis for plays.

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    This document discusses techniques for characterizing characters in plays, including their motivations, roles, and devices used for characterization. It covers explicit techniques like direct descriptions from the author or other characters, as well as implicit techniques shown through a character's actions, dialogue, asides, and how they are portrayed over time on stage. The document provides an overview of character analysis for plays.

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    This document discusses techniques for characterizing characters in plays, including their motivations, roles, and devices used for characterization. It covers explicit techniques like direct descriptions from the author or other characters, as well as implicit techniques shown through a character's actions, dialogue, asides, and how they are portrayed over time on stage. The document provides an overview of character analysis for plays.

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    CHARACTERS

    CHARACTERS CHARACTERIZATION
    CHARACTERS IN ACTION

    What
    he does?
    Why he How he
    does? does?

    Ending
    Conclusion
    Hope for
    Reward

    Love

    Fear of
    Failures
    Religious
    MOTIVATION
    Feeling

    Revenge

    Greed

    Jealousy
    Jealousy

    Love
    Rounded Revenge
    Personality

    Greed
    General Role
    The amount of time and speech as well as presence on the stage he or
    she allocated.

    Have a lot to say and appear


    frequently throughout the play

    Major Minor
    Have less presence or appear
    only marginally
    • Character’s Outstanding
    CARICATURE
    trait
    Active (round) • Static Characters
    and Passive (flat)
    Characters • Dynamic Characters

    Number of • The Detail Number of


    Characters Characters
    The Basic • Protagonist
    Characters • Antagonist
    Role • Confidant
    Characters in • Character’s Time on the
    Time Stage
    DEVICES OF
    CHARACTERIZATION

    The Dialogue
    Appearance of Asides and Between Hidden Character in
    Soliloquies Narration Language Action
    The Character Characters
    TECHNIQUES OF
    CHARACTERIZATION

    EXPLICIT

    ‘Authorial’ ( the
    play’s secondary
    text)/ ‘Figural’
    (characters in
    the play)

    IMPLICIT

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