4. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
4.1 Characterization In fiction, a character may be defined as a verbal representation of a
human being. Through action, speech, description, and commentary, authors portray characters who are worth caring about, rooting, for, and even loving,
although there are also characters you may laugh at, dislike, or even hate. John Peck and Martin Coyle in their book Literary Terms and Critism
1986 : 105 explained the definition of chracter as follows : “ Characters in literary work are not like real life people for they
have been specially created by authors. When authors create character, they select some aspect of ordinary people. Develop
some of those aspect whilst playing down other and put them together as they please, the result is not an ordinary person but a
fictional characters who only exist in the words of literary works.”
Many of the question in public examination are about character. Whenever we write about characters in novel, they are not just like a real life people. A novel
is a world specially made in words by an authors. A novel exists in the way it does because an author has chosen to put it together in that particular way. This means
that novels are not real life. Novels, however, are fictional; that is to say, they have been made up. A character in novel can’t be compared to a real person from
whom he or she has been copied, because, for example, there is no Sidney Sheldon in real life. He, or any other character in a novel, only exist on the page.
When authors create characters, they select some aspects of ordinary people, develop some of those aspects whilst playing down others, and put them together
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as they please. The result is not an ordinary person but a fictional character who only exist in the words of the novel.
Characters also refers to moral qualities and ethical standards and principles. In literature, character has several other specific meanings, notably that
a person represented in a story, novel, play, etc. In seventeenth and eighteenth- century England, a character was a formal sketch or descriptive analysis of a
particular virtue or vice as represented in a person,what is a more often called a character sketch. Finally, Character is the interest for the very personal that we
want to see how others people live, how they pursue their goals. We measure our selves by them.
Martin Gray 1984 : 2 says that characterization is the way in which a writer creates his characters in a narrative, so as to attract or repel our
sympathy. The varieties of characterization presented in literature are as numerous as those of the real people who surround us in the world; but different kinds of
literature have certain conversation of characterization. Often in dealing with a literary character we learn more of his or her motives than we would ever expect
to be certain of in real life; consistency of motivation seems a necessary fact in literary characterization.
4.2 Division of Character
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