proletariat wants to get wage as much as they can get and minimal work hours.
C. Character and Characterization
A. Definition of Character
Character is a person created for a work of fiction. That is definition of character generally but how literary character differs? Often,
they are people the author knows or people the author observed or overheard.
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This is one of the most important elements in story. There is no story without character.
In analyzing a character or characters relationship we relate one act, one speech, one physical detail to another until we understand the
character. Character in fiction can be classified as a major and minor, static and dynamic. A major character is an important figure at the center
of the story’s action or theme. The major character is sometimes called a protagonist whose conflict with antagonist may spark the story’s conflict.
Minor characters are often static or unchanging: they remain the same from the beginning of a work to the end. Dynamic characters, on the other
hand, exhibit some kind of change —of attitude, of purpose, of behavior—
as the story progresses.
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In the story, characters exist based on realistic classified, round character and flat character.
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Jane Bachman Gordon Karen Kuehner, ―FICTION; The Elements of the Short Story‖, New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, 1999, p. 95
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Robert DiYanni. Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, 5
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ed. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, 2004., p. 54
To Foster, round character is a three dimensional character complex enough to be able to surprise the reader without losing
credibility.
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While flat character is one whom Foster deems incapable of surprising the reader. Besides that, there are also active and static
characters. An active character is one who changes because of what happens in the plot. And static characters, remained unchanged, their
character is the same at the end of the story as at the beginning.
B. Definition of Characterization
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