Character

Characters bring tension, conflict and personality to any story. Moreover, characters allow a reader to engage more in a story because of relatability and similar or contrasting traits. One of the most powerful characters that we have seen this year is Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth's head-strong personality provides an interesting contrast from the other obeying women in the English society. Elizabeth brings tension and provides to most of the story line and plot. Her different outlook on society and love creates a modern, fresh, and relatable character for readers. In a fiction, characters tend to stand out through personality traits that differ from other's personalities. Like fiction characters, characters in dramas also tend to stand out because of their contrasting  personalities, however dramatic characters tend to have more extreme attitudes that conflict and outshine the rest of the supporting characters. Moreover, characters truly provide the interesting plot changes that occur throughout a story. For example, in Hamlet, the climax of the play is made possibly by Hamlet and him stabbing Claudius. Also, the climax in Pride and Prejudice is when Elizabeth finally agrees to Darcy's marriage proposal. Therefore, characters make a story interesting and also create interesting changes in plot.