2.1.1 The Ways Characters Are Portrayed
Round character and flat character are the ways we know the portrayal characters in a novel. Bonazza 1982 : 4 says, “literary
characters have also been described as being static or developing, depending upon whether they remain the same from the beginning to the
end of the story or whether they undergo some significant, internal change in the course of event. The concept of developing suggests that the
character achieves a different view of life as a result of some insight gained from conflict and is no longer quite the same person as before. The
concepts of static suggests the opposite.” Wellek 19 : 219 also states, “there are static characterizations and
dynamic or developmental. ‘Flat’ characterization which commonly overlaps ‘static’ presents a single trait, seen as a dominant or socially
most obvious trait. It may be carricature or may be abstractive idealization. Classical drama e.g. Racine applies it to major characters. ‘Round’
characterization, like ‘dynamic’, requires space and emphasis; is obviously usable for characters focal for point of view or interest; hence is ordinaily
combined with ‘flat’ treatment of background figures – the ‘chorus’.”
2.1.2. Type of Character
There are three type of character, they are protagonist, antagonist, and foil character. The first is that protagonist, the character who is central
to the story, it can be a good guy or the bad guy, but the important is is that
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the protagonist is someone whom the readers accept, sympathize, and identify. The second is that antagonist. Antagonist is the character who is
often termed as the villain of the story. The antagonist may not only be a person, it could be a situation creating an obstacle in the path of the
protagonist towards his or her final goal. The last is that foil character. The character who is used as contrasting character to enhance the personality
of another character, it is the figure whose personality traits are the oppoosit of the main character’s. This is a support character and usually
made to shine the protagonist.
2.1.3. The Ways Characters are Revealed
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