Major classifications of literary text characters.

? Aristotle: agents/ performers

? Vladimir Propp: characters as functions

? Greimas: the actantial model, (based on Propp's theories): the six actants (subject, object, helper, opponent, sender, receiver) are divided into three oppositions, each of which forms an axis of the description:

? Chatman: characters as a set of features/properties

How to reconstruct the character:

Four Principles:

? Repetition of relevant characteristics

? Accumulation of relevant characteristics

? Relation to other characters

? Transformations

Axes of character analysis:

• complexity (from CRs constructed around 1 dominant trait to complex CRs)

• development (from static CRs to fully developed)

• penetration into the 'inner life'. (from CRs whose state of mind is open to those whose is opaque, not clear)

CLASSIFICATION OF CHARACTERS:

• Flat/round characters

• Static/Dynamic characters

• Driver/Passenger characters (character-driven novel/ plot-driven novel)

• Main (central, major)/minor characters

• Mimetic/didactic characters

• Stock characters, foil characters

? Driver characters

? Protagonist – Antagonist

? Guardian – Contagonist

? Passenger characters

? sidekick

? reason

? emotion

? skeptic

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