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Character Developmrny The effectiveness of any narrative is dependent on the viability of it's characters - that is, how tangible, or human they appear to the reader.
Submitted by polaroidharlot on March 22, 2008
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The effectiveness of any narrative is dependent on the viability of it's characters – that is, how tangible, or human they appear to the reader. Characters bring life to a story that cannot be effectively emulated by any other means. What entices the reader into the turning of each page is the relationship that he or she begins to develop with the characters whose lives, thoughts, and feelings they are experiencing through the telling of the story. Particularly in the short story, character development occurs very rapidly, such that the reader is often able to flip back but a single page and see the change that has already taken root. The devices employed by one writer will differ from that of another, thus allowing for a multiplicity of styles which appeal to a variety of audiences. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Guy de Maupassant, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s stories “Young Goodman Brown”, “The Necklace”, and “The Yellow Wallpaper”, respectively, all differ vastly in their subject matter. These stories, though dissimilar, share the commonality of their characters undergoing some dramatic transformation before the story’s end.
In the opening of “Young Goodman Brown”, Hawthorne tells of a man for whom the story is named, “And Faith, as the wife was aptly named.” (526) Through Faith, Hawthorne suggests to his reader that Brown is embarking on some unnamed, perilous errand. Brown refers to his wife as “My love and my Faith,” (526), and later as “a blessed angel on earth”, speaking of how “after this one night [he’ll] cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.” (526) As he is progressing down the forest path, he hears the cries of his wife in the distance, discovering one of her hair ribbons falling toward the ground, causing him to cry out: “My Faith is gone! . . . There is no good on earth. And sin is but a name.” (531) Brown’s journey finds him in a suspiciously sinister clearing at the end of a forest path, filled...
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