Choose a quote or short excerpt from the text that you feel is rich in characterization. Type the quote/excerpt below and then specifically describe how this quote/excerpt characterizes a specific character. A review of characterization can be found below:
Characterization is the means by which writers present and reveal character. Characterization is revealed through direct characterization and indirect characterization.
Direct Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
Example: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.”
Explanation: The author is directly telling the audience the personality of these two children. The boy is “patient” and the girl is “quiet.”
Indirect Characterization shows things that reveal the personality of a character.
The typical methods of revealing character in fiction:
What the character says (what they say and how they say it)
What the character does
What the character looks like (dress, appearance…)
What the character thinks and feels
What others think/say about the character
What the narrator says implicitly/explicitly about the character
6 comments:
Josheewah
"Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, lettin "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage?"
This is spoken by Lady Macbeth to her husband to convince him to commit murder. This makes me characterize her as a mulipulative woman. She uses Macbeth's own pride against him callin him a coward to get him to go along with her plans
Thomas
Banquo - "Let your Highness command upon me, to the which my duties are with a most indissoluble tie for ever knit."
This shows that Banquo is smart. He is telling Macbeth that he is loyal to the king, but it has a double meaning. He could be talking about either Macbeth or Malcolm.
Shelby
"Only look up clear To alter favor ever is to fear. Leave all the rest to me"
You can see that Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to buck up and put on a good face. "The leave all rest to me" can tell shes in control of the situation
Well done Tom
Daniel Tepes
Macbeth: "Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
All is but toys; renown and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
is left the voult to brag of ...
... You are, and do not know't.
The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
is stopped, the very source of it is stopped."
Macbeth, trys to act like he is mourning for King Duncan. And with this he characterizes the king.
He describs the king as a blessing for the land at the time,
his good life as a king has been taken away,
he was a great king, "the spring, the head, the fountain,
but know that he is dead, he will be missed.
Tiffy
Lady Macbeth's soliloquy in scene 5 of act 1 gives us a peek into her mind. She isn't your normal woman character. Alot women in literature are shown as the weaker sex, the one in the background but here she is saying take that weakness from me which shows that she is a very determined person and doesn't want anything to get in her way
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