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Creating a Character

Creating a Character. What are your character’s INTERNAL & EXTERNAL qualities? Who is the character? What is your character’s motivation? What are your character’s conflicts? What is your character’s relationship to the play? How are you like/unlike your character?

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Creating a Character

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  1. Creating a Character What are your character’s INTERNAL & EXTERNAL qualities? Who is the character? What is your character’s motivation? What are your character’s conflicts? What is your character’s relationship to the play? How are you like/unlike your character? How does your character change throughout the play?

  2. Internal Characteristics • Attitudes,Values, Motivations • Background and Psychology • Relationship to the Scene/Play External Characteristics • Appearance,Costume • Posture, Mannerisms • Vocal patterns

  3. Character’s Relationship to Play • Prior Action (what’s happened to your character BEFORE the play begins) • Opening Situation (the first scene of the play, as the curtain opens) • Immediate Unbalancing Action (the first thing that happens to the character which causes the conflict)

  4. Rising Action (all the action in the play between the unbalancing action and the climax) • Moment of Self Realization (the point in the play where the character LEARNS something about life and living)

  5. Climax (the highest point of emotional intensity) • Resolution (the character’s solution to the conflict) • Title (the relationship of the character to the title of the play)

  6. CONFLICTS CONFLICTS with Self/ Others/ Nature Self: the problems that the character creates for themselves; Others: the problems that your character has with the other characters in the play; Nature: the problems which your character CAN NOT CONTROL;

  7. PLOT STRUCTURE • Prior action: what has happened to the character prior to the opening of the play which effects upon the character, plot, conflict, mood and theme; • Opening situation: the events at the rise of the curtain; • Initial incident: the first incident that occurs to which all other events can be traced; establishes the conflict;

  8. Rising Action: the episodes of dialogue which further the plot, conflict, and develop characters.Climax: the highest point of emotional intensity.Falling action: the events after the climax where the outcome is resolved

  9. PLAY ANALYSIS: Style, Form, Mood, Theme, Plot StructureSTYLE: I. Realistic (characters, events, and setting represent real life)

  10. II. Unrealistic(characters, events, and settings are categorized as • symbolic- characters and setting represent ideas, • fantasy- uses animals as characters, or • romantic- life is pictured ideally, language is lyrical)

  11. FORM I. Representational: the actor’s maintain the illusion of the “fourth wall” (an imaginary wall that separates the audience from the actor’s on stage) II. Presentational: the actor’s break the illusion of the fourth wall and interact directly with the audience.

  12. MOOD • Tragedy: has all the elements of classic Greek tragedy: hero, tragic flaw, catharsis, tragic ending • Comedy- based on incongruities, comparisons, and contrasts. Categories include: • Satire- social issues • Farce- impossible situation • Slapstick- physical comedy

  13. Serious Drama: treats the subject seriously, but does not contain the elements of classic tragedy Melodrama: emphasis is on action,suspense and excitement

  14. THEME- the main idea that the author is trying to project about life and living. A truth of life.The theme unifies the characters and the plot, and is sometimes found in the play’s title; a quotation at the beginning of the play; within a main character’s speech; or within the play itself.

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