Human or fantastic beings who star in a fictional story.- The first use of the word character is that which refers to each of the beings, whether human, animal, or of another type of nature, that appear in an artistic work, be it a story, a novel, a television program, a movie, a play, among other possibilities.
When we refer to beings that have a different nature than animal and human, it is because it turns out to be very recurrent and especially in recent times when animated fantasy has gained ground in fictional stories in cinema and TV, that we run into each other. with characters who speak, feel, breathe and communicate with the rest and with the world but who are neither animals nor people, but rather objects that suddenly take on life as a result of fantasy, such is the case of, for example sponge Bob, one of the most popular children's characters of recent times and whose nature has little to do with the traditional one.
How is the character built?
The character consists of a mental construction carried out by the language and image of its creatorand if it is not the previous case, mostly, the characters are played by dancers, singers, actors, who have the mission of interpreting in the theater, in the cinema or on television the role assigned by the director of the story in question.
The actor represents a character, a being that is not the same and then the viewer or the reader will create an image of them that will be in close association with the circumstances and experiences that that character has.
Specialists usually distinguish between two types of characters, linear and circular.
Character types
Circular characters are thought of with many personality characteristics and almost always tend to be complex, realistic and credible, while, on the contrary, linear characters have very small personality traits, being simpler but much less credible than the previous ones. . For example, the protagonists of the stories, such as the hero or the heroine, generally tend to be the circular type characters that the piece in question has and the so-called secondary characters, such as the antagonist of that hero, are those of the type linear.
And the typical character is that character model that presents a series of physical, psychological and moral traits that turn out to be familiar to viewers because they embody a certain function or role already accepted by tradition.. That is to say, the spectators hope that the bad guy has a bad face and the good person has a good face, and also that the bad guy constantly insists on doing bad things to his antagonist the hero and obviously the latter will have to show himself good and sometimes even as understanding of the bad guy, because of course he is good and has to show it more than anything, even understanding the badness of the bad guy.
Illustrious and outstanding person in some task
And the other use of the term is to refer to that illustrious and outstanding person of any activity or subject, for instance Madonna he is a character within the field of music; Bill clinton, is a character within the political arena and George Clooney is a character within the entertainment world.
The characters in this sense are people who awaken around them and among the audience an incredible fascination that is spread throughout the world. Of course, in addition to his charisma and talent, which are the basic and necessary elements when it comes to attracting the public, also, in that fabulous attraction that they awaken, the mass media have a lot to do, who are usually very interested in the lives of these characters, chasing them everywhere, to show their fans what they do both in front of and behind the scenes.
Of course, what happens behind the set, the stage or the set often annoys and a lot the famous, who rebels against the siege of the media, however, the paparazzi, cannot stop following him because the public is interested in both questions of his celebrities, his public side and not to mention the private, which in the case of many characters is as or more interesting than their professional activity.
And in the colloquial use of some Spanish-speaking countries, it is common for the word character to be used to give an account of that person who stands out for his uniqueness, wit or extravagance, we usually say of her what a character that is!
