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definition of characters

The term characters corresponds to the plural of the character concept, which, in general terms, refers to each of the human beings, made of flesh and blood, symbolic or animated, who represent a certain role and who appear and act in a work fiction, whether in the theater, in the cinema, on television or in a book.

It is very difficult to imagine a story, a movie, a play or a fiction program on television in which there are no characters, since they turn out to be the focus of attention and center of all the stories that are developed or may develop in these media, that is, we can summarize it as the story in question.

Characters of flesh and blood, symbolic, animated

The aforementioned distinction that is made in the definition regarding the fact that there are not only human characters, that is, flesh and blood, is due to the fact that it is recurrent to find characters such as aliens, animals in movies, books, TV shows, among others. of all kinds, gods, inanimate objects, which also play the role of a character, many of them even play leading roles, crucial in the stories.

Character construction

The character turns out to be the consequence of a mental construction elaborated through language and image. Fictional characters are almost always represented by professional actors and dancers, although as we said, for the "other" characters, the animated ones, the puppets, the animals, the aliens, there are vocal actors, that is, they only provide a voice to a character or they can be created through sophisticated computer techniques, thanks to the phenomenal advances that have taken place in this field in recent decades.

Character types

Critics and scholars often distinguish between two distinct types of characters, circular and linear.. The circulars are those considered more complex, realistic and credible, because they present a wide range of characteristics in their personality, like real Bah people, and generally they are usually intended for the main characters. And the linear ones, on the contrary, are simpler, less credible and possess very few personality characteristics, generally destined to those secondary roles of little importance in the work.

Now, the above is a fairly broad, general and whimsical delimitation and that many times may not have to do with reality if we take into account that there are also many characters framed in the secondary category that manage to bring great richness to the plot and relevance, almost on a par with the main characters, even if they weren't there, the whole story would lose interest. Because how many times has it happened to us as spectators of series, novels, movies, that we fell in love with and admired some secondary character and not the main characters ... yes, many!

Meanwhile, within the main characters, we can make a sub-classification, those who do good, such is the case of those popularly called heroes and heroines and who somehow represent goodness in the story and by case are those who the The public always wants them to succeed. Normally they must suffer various vicissitudes before succeeding but it is usual that they are the final victors of the stories.

Meanwhile, on the other "side of the ring" we find the antagonists, who on the contrary to those just mentioned have the mission of embodying the evil of history and therefore they are the ones who inflict most of the setbacks and complications on them. the protagonists. Usually the public does not like them, especially when they do their bad character very well, and they tend to win in almost all the development of the story, except in the end, which is where the main characters almost always win.

The characters in fictional stories that are represented in movies or on TV are represented by professional actors and actresses.

A character in his professional work

On the other hand, in ordinary language, it is also common for a distinguished person who stands out in the task of a certain activity to be called by the term character.

For example, a politician, more precisely the President of the United States, Barack Obama, of course, is not dedicated to the representation of works of fiction, but as a consequence of the prominent place he occupies in the local and international public space and because of the incredible dissemination that his actions have in the media, the common people consider him as a character. In the world of music, sports, art, medicine, among other areas, we can also find many characters who stand out for the type of task or work that they have displayed during a period of time or for the place they occupy in the context to which they belong.

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