Dynamic vs. Static Characters

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Dynamic vs. Static Characters
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Change

• Specific type of change
• Internal
• Major change in personality
• Change in characters outlook on life
• Values
• Overall change in nature of character
• Within, not to the character

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Is there change?

• Ask yourself
• Have the characters personality/values/outlook
  changed throughout the story?
• Yes
• Dynamic
• No
• Static

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Dynamic

• Major change in character
• Bad ? Good
• Good ? Bad
• Crucial to the story

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Static

• Remains same throughout story
• Same beginning to end
• Mean
• Nice
• No internal changes
• Example
• Plastic surgery

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Dynamic Characters

• Scrooge
• Beginning mean, bitter, greedy
• End generous, kind, beloved
• Grinch

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Static Characters

• Cinderellas stepmother
• Beginning mean, cruel, cold
• End mean, cruel, cold
• Cinderella
• Beginning kind, loyal, honest
• End kind, loyal, honest

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Whos better?

• Neither character is superior
• Both have purpose and function

Not better, just different