9 The second is that character which refers to the mixture of interests, desires,
emotions, and moral principles that make up each of these individuals p. 17. Blair 1948 in Better Reading II: Literature states that a character is:
a description of figures in the story. The description includes the description of profession, statements, dialogues, and thoughts. The purpose is to
describe to the readers what a character is like such as his behaviour and how he lives pp. 52-54
Henkle 1977 states that characters can be categorized as major and minor characters. Major characters are created to carry out ideas or messages in a story
to the readers through the character’s feeling, thoughts, actions, and reactions.
Milligan 1983 in The Novel of English also has the same character categorization as Henkle, states that there are two kinds of character such as,
major characters and secondary characters. Major characters are those who appear more often in the story than the other characters, while the minor characters are
those who appear less often in the story. p. 193.
2.1.2 Theory of Characterization
Character and characterization are related to each other, they cannot be separated. In the real life, human sense of character naturally varies with their
power of perception and understanding. Holman and William 1986 state, the characterization is the creation of imaginary person or character found in fictions
drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. Therefore, characters exist for the readers as lifelike p. 81. They also define that there are three methods of
characterization afterwards: firstly, by the explicit presentation from the author of the character through direct exposition; secondly, by the presentation of the
10 character in action; and thirdly, by the representation from within a character p.
81. In narrative or dramatic works, characterization refers to the presentation
of persons by means of characters’ actions, speeches or physical appearances.
Since every character has their own personalities and physical attributes, a character can be differentiated from each other.
Stanton 1965 classifies that there are three important ways on how to understand a character of the story such as:
1. By paying attention to the character’s name because sometimes the author
uses the name that fits the character. 2.
By paying attention to the author’s explicit depiction of the character and comment given by the character.
3. By paying attention to the way, the character makes her or his own
dialogue and her or his behaviour. pp. 17-18 Murphy 1972 classifies that there are nine methods on how an author
presents the characters such as: 1.
Personal description Th
e author describes the character through personal’s appearances like face, skin, and eyes, etc. and from the way, the person clothes which
show his or her economical level. This method is very important because through this, the readers can have a better imagination because the
character has an individual aspect.
