Personality Development Definition on Terms
literary genre: it is a short, and usually witty, sketch in prose of a distinctive type of person.
‖ The second one is character is ―the person presented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral,
dispositional, and emotional qualities that are expressed in what they say-the dialogue- and by what they do- the action.
‖ The grounds in the characters temperament, desires, and moral nature for their speech and actions are called
their motivation 1981: 23. Each character has his or her own characteristics. A character in a literary
work has his or her own personalities and physical appearances or characteristics that make him of her different from each other. Based on their psychological
behavior, there are two kinds of characters namely flat and round characters. The flat characters are the characters that represent single characteristics, treat, idea or
limited number of qualities. The flat characters are static and do not develop as fully as round characters. Round characters are complex in temperament and
motivation. Round characters are dynamic and often appear as the center of the story. They represent number qualities or traits and complex multidimensional
characters of significant intellectual an emotional depth that have the capacity to grow and changes Forster, 1978:73.
The writer agrees that each character has his or her own characteristic as stated by Forster. The writer thinks that each person grown up from different
background. They have different experience, heritage, and generation. As we can see in some movies, there are brothers and sisters even twins who grow up from
different background and they grow to be the person they like. So, in this thesis,
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the story of
The Phantom of the Opera
is one of presentations of the uniqueness of the character.
Rohrberger and Woods stated that characterization is the process by which an author creates a character. Not only the physical appearance that the reader can
imagine the character, but also through his or her behavior and thought 1971: 20. While Barnet and Bruto have opinion that characterization is defined by what
the characters do, by what they say, by what others say about them and by the setting in which they move 1988:746. Based on these opinions above, can be
concluded that characterization is the way of the author presents the character. M.J. Murphy in his
Understanding Unseen
1972:161-173 mentions nine ways on how an author may describe
the character‘s personalities and traits to the reader.
a. Personal Description The author can describe a person‘s appearance and clothing. He can
describe clearly, what the characters are like and tell the reader the details of the character‘s appearance: the face, skin, eyes, and clothing.
b. Characters as seen by others
The author describes the character‘s appearance or personality by letting other characters in the story tell what they see about this character.
c. Speech
The author can give the readers an insight into the character of one of the person in the story through what the person says. Whenever the person
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