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A fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a fictional work or performance. Such existence is presumed by those participating in the performance as audience, readers, or otherwise. more...
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In addition to people, characters can be aliens, animals, gods, an artificial intelligence or, occasionally, inanimate objects.
Characters are widely considered an essential element of fictional works, especially novels and plays. Nevertheless, some works have attempted to portray a story without the use of characters (James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the most famous examples). Even in works that do not expressly convey the existence of characters, such as in poetry, they are presumed in the form of a narrator or an imagined listener.
In various forms of theatre, performance arts and cinema, fictional characters are portrayed by actors, dancers and singers. In animations and puppetry, different aspects of a given character are rendered separately using different modalities. In animation, for example, mannerisms and behavior are rendered by animators, while voices are rendered by voice actors. In machinima, voices are sometimes rendered using speech synthesis.
The process of creating and developing characters in a work of fiction is called characterization.
The opposite of a fictional character is a nonfictional character.
Archetypes
A character may be based on a particular archetype. This may be either a model from mythology, legend, or folk tale, or a model that fulfils a particular role in a story as defined within literary criticism. Both Puck from the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream and Bugs Bunny are examples of the former: manifestations of the trickster archetype, defying normal rules of behavior.
In Dramatica, Melanie Anne Phillips and Chris Huntley define eight different archetypes defined by their "Action" and "Decision" characteristics:
Driver Characters:
Protagonist: "... the driver of the story: the one who forces the action." Defined by "Pursue" and "Consideration" characteristics.;
Antagonist: "... the character directly opposed to the Protagonist." "Prevent" & "Re-consideration".;
Guardian: "... a teacher or helper who aids the Protagonist..." "Help" & "Conscience";
Contagonist: "... hinders and deludes the Protagonist..." "Hinder" & "Temptation";
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Passenger Characters
Reason: "... makes its decisions and takes action on the basis of logic..." "Control" & "Logic";
Emotion: "... responds with its feelings without thinking..." "Uncontrolled" & "Feeling";
Sidekick: "... unfailing in its loyalty and support." "Support" & "Faith".;
Skeptic: "... doubts everything..." "Oppose" & "Disbelief";
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A single character may be fulfil more than one archetypal role. A complex character may blend characteristics from different archetypes.
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