Round Character Research Articles

Divine Haecceity: Reclaiming the Literary Character of God in Hebrew Scripture with Rosenzweig and Miskotte

The present article first summarizes the results of literary scholarship on the character of God in Hebrew Scripture: authors such as Jack Miles, W. Lee Humphreys, and Avivah Zornberg discern a ‘round character’ in biblical texts, a divine persona who acts and reacts from out of particular desires, wants, and insecurities. The second section indicates a few factors explaining why constructive Christian theology typically finds this literary God-character unusable. The third section makes an argument for the usability of the God-character in Christian theology. The term haecceity—Latin for this-ness—epitomizes its proposal, which retrieves two twentieth-century thinkers, Franz Rosenzweig and K. H. Miskotte.

Study on Development of Main Character and Characterization in “Bohemian Rhapsody” Movie

There are two objectives of the study the first one is to identify the main character development in the “Bohemian Rhapsody” movie. the second is to analyze characterization of the main character in “Bohemian Rhapsody” movie. The data of this study were taken from the movie entitled Bohemian Rhapsody. The data source in this study was take from the movie in the movie was analyzed descriptively based on the theory How To Analize Fiction proposed by William Kenney (1956). The main character development was analyzed into two categorizes which is simple(flat) character and complex(round) characters. The characterization of the main character was analyzed into three categorize which is physiological, sociological, and psychological dimension of the main characterization. The characterization of Freddie Mercury over all is that he is a kind person, humble, gentle and romantic person but in the middle of the story he changed into a bad person, ego and unfriendly person which make him a complex(round) character.

Analysis of Characterization of Main Character in the Up 2009 Movie by Pete Docter

The tittle of this thesis is An Analysis Of Characterization Of Main Character In The UP 2009 Movie By Pete Dokter. This movie tell about a old man, the name is Carl Fredricksen who full fills his promise going to the paradise fall using a flying house with many ballons and Russel, in his journey Carl and Russel pass a lot obstacles and the finally arrive in Paradise Falls. For the analysis of the main characters obtained in the UP film, there are several characters such as impolite, wild, cruel, bad thoughts, smart care, angry caring, Brave. The data which had been collected were analyzed descriptively based on the theory Kenney (1966) and theory Wellek and Warren (1956). The main character was analyzed into four categories which is simple(flat) character, complex(round) character, dynamic character and static characterFrom the result analisys there are Three dimension, from the three dimensions, there is 1 Physiological Dimension data, 19 Psychological Dimension data, and 2 Sociological Dimension data. So, in conclusion the most prominent dimension of Mr. Fredricksen is Psychological Dimension which contains 19 data.

Reading O’Neill Creatively: Perspectives and Offerings

Reading O’Neill Creatively: Perspectives and Offerings

Images of Chinese in Australian nationalist literature

This article focuses on images of Chinese in the work of Australian nationalist writers. It discusses the manifestations of, and rationale for, images of Chinese as “others,” “scapegoats,” and “round characters” in three categories: distorted images of the lower-class Chinese, demonized images of Chinese merchants, and true-to-life Chinese images. The distorted and demonized images reveal Australians’ cultural cringe during the nationalist period and the xenophobic psychology of building a White Australia, whereas those Chinese portrayed as normal and realistic are culturally Australianized Chinese. These images of Chinese are all characteristic of a post-1880s historical moment in which racist ideas prevailed within Australian nationalist sentiment.

Protagonist's belonging: The characters' classification in Mo Yan's frog

Usually, the novel is described as a literary genre that takes “characters” as the center and reflects the social life through the description of the complete story plot and specific environment, or a literary genre that reflects the social life through the expansion of the plot and the rendering of the environment. Only by understanding the characters created by the author and their intention can we further analyze the theme of the novel. A novel Frog describes a group of people who lived in Gaomi, Shandong Province with a different life consciousness and life attitude toward the family planning policy. The article applied the theory of Flat and Round Character proposed by E. M. Förster and follows qualitative descriptive method proposed by Creswell (2003), an effective model that occurs in a natural setting that enables the researcher to develop a level of detail from being highly involved in the actual experiences, attempts to explore the various key characteristics in the characterization and narration of the novel which indicate how and why these two characters were formed in this manner and how the writing style of the author has developed these characters into becoming flat and round characters. The result of the analysis shows that flat characters in a novel Frog are more pointed than this group of indifferent and numb male characters. Their personalities are distinct and clear at a glance, and there is no change in the entire novel, so they are easy to identify. While, flat characters are often used by authors to convey a fixed and single value, or as a container for advanced social ideas.

COURAGE AS SEEN IN WINSTON GROOM’S FORREST GROOM

The purpose of the study is to reveal about courage as seen in Winston Groom's Forrest Gump. The design of the study is qualitative research because the data of this research are in the form of words. The researchers use two kinds of data collection which are the primary source and secondary sources. The primary source is the novel itself and the secondary sources are the materials that the researchers took from books, internet, articles, journals, etc. The researchers use objective approach because the researcher analyzed the courage of the main character in the novel which is one of the internal elements. In analysing the data, researchers do a close reading of the novel and create a coding to help researchers easily find and arrange the research. Because this research uses objective theory, the researcher examines the internal elements of the novel, namely characters, plot, theme and setting. The researchers focus on the character by classifying each character in the novel into two parts, namely round character and flat character. The results of this study can be concluded that the courage of Forrest Gump is seen from two types of courage, namely moral courage and physical courage. First, by moral courage that he dared to face his shortcomings and dared to show his abilities. Second, Forrest also shows physical courage to protect himself and help others. From these results the researcher found that people who have courage can get through all the difficulties in their life.

Exploring the Spiritual Struggles of God’s Servant in the Book of Jonah

This article focuses on the spiritual struggles of Jonah, as narrated in the book bearing his name. While negative evaluations of Jonah's character have dominated recent scholarly work (for example, as a disobedient, stubborn, nationalistic prophet or anti-hero), this article argues that such categorizations are too simplistic and flat. Jonah is, instead, a complex, round character who dares to disobey and argue with God in the course of his struggle to understand and respond to God's attributes and purposes. Throughout Jonah's book, we see God's patience and mercy at work as he commissioned, disciplined, rescued, recommissioned, and educated Jonah. The article includes an inductive summary of the words and actions of Jonah, a literature review, a re-reading of the text in dialogue with scholarly voices focused on the spiritual struggle of the prophet, and a discussion of key pastoral implications for the calling, discernment and character formation of those in Christian ministry.

Characterization analysis of the main character in “rambo 4” movie

This article discusses the characterization in Rambo 4 movie entitled “An Analysis of Characterization of the Main Character in Rambo 4 Movie”. There are two objectives of this study; the first one is to identify the characterization of the main character in movie Rambo 4. The second one is to analyze the main character described in movie Rambo 4. Qualitative descriptive method was used in analyzing the data. The data source in this study was the movie and the movie script entitled Rambo 4. The data which had been collected were analyzed based on the theory Kenney (1966) and theory Wellek and Warren (1956). The main character is complex (round) character. The characterization of Jhon Rambo can be described as hard working, care, murderer, brave, religious, smart, and ignorant Jhon Rambo can be described physically with long curly hair, panicked face, angry face, catcher snake, simple life, archer, and impolite.

Women (Re)Writing Milton

Women (Re)Writing Milton

Characterization of the Characters in The Pursuit Of Happyness Movie

This study intended to identify the types of the main and secondary character and to describe the characterization method used by the author to represent the characters in the movie. This study applied the theory proposed by William Kenney (1966) in the book How to Analyze Fiction and the theory by Pickering and Hoeper (1962) in the book Concise Companion to Literature. The data of this study were analyzed by descriptive qualitative method. The result of this study shows the types of characters, which are Chris Gardner and Christopher. Based on the data analysis, they are can be categorized as round character. The author used telling method of characterization to represent the characters through their appearance. He is also used showing method of characterization through the dialogue between the characters and their action.

Climate Fiction and Disability: Enabled Futures in James Bradley's Clade (2015)

Abstract: James Bradley's futuristic novel Clade (2015) is not chiefly a story about human disability. It is a novel about climate crisis set across the course of the twenty-first century. But midway through the novel, we are introduced to a seven-year-old boy, Noah, who becomes a key character in the second half of the narrative. Noah is on the spectrum. Autistics decry their portrayal in fiction as aliens, as outsiders, as harbingers of disease and disorder, as beings without agency. As we get to know Noah as a boy, through his teenage years, and later on as an astronomer, his autism is neither denied nor made the defining characteristic of his personhood. Noah is given voice, perspective, and centrality as a rounded character, emerging as someone well suited to a future world reshaped by environmental crises and new social relations. He is not pathologized but socialized across the course of the novel into a world of family, friends, and work. Like his biblical namesake, Noah becomes a survivor in the new environmental and social spaces of the latter part of the twenty-first century.

A Study of Conversational Implicature in Lady Chatterley’s Lover from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle

Lady Chatterley's Lover is Lawrence's last important novel. Lawrence describes the rebellion and pursuit of the heroine Connie in marriage and love.Lawrence was good at using dialogue to describe round characters. The characters in the novel frequently violate some Cooperative Principle maxims, thus producing various conversational implicature which enrich their personalities. This article uses the Cooperative Principle(CP) to analyze the typical dialogue in the novel that violates the CP. And it's hoped that the CP approach to Lady Chatterley's Lover in this article may help readers understand the theme, plot and several main characters' personalities better and also provide some enlightenment for the practicality of the pragmatic approach in the interpretation of prose novels. This article adopts the literature research method, through the related literature review, analyzing the protagonist's implication from the perspective of Cooperative Principle; through the text analysis method, this article carries on the analysis to the protagonist's dialogues which violate the Cooperative Principle, analyzing the implied meanings; also by using the CP and the dialogues to connect the real life, it will help readers to further grasp the protagonist's intention.

The psychoanalysis of Mam's character in the narrative of Mam and Zin based on Rogers's humanist model

Abstract Humanism is considered as one of the novel trends in Psychology which deals with the human innate inclinations and his needs. Karl Ruggers is one of the humanist psychologists who has a positive perspective towards human potentials and creativities. In his works, Ruggers has a special inclination towards the idea of ‘superman’ and the ways that human being could pave the way to make this historical dream come true. The development of Zin’s round identity is one of the essential ideas in Mam and Zin that could be discussed and analyzed via Ruggers’ theory and is carried out in this research. The essence of human perfection is one of the coral arguments that Khani attempts to develop authentically from Mam’s perspective. Therefore, Ruggers’ humanist theory could analyze Khani’s thoughts in a great deal. Such a parallel alignment of Ruggers’ theories and Khani’s psychological thematic inclinations could lead to great conclusions that Khani as a Kurdish classic writer has delt with psychological development of his characters that analyzing them requires advanced contemporary knowledge in humanism and psychology. The results of the research vividly illustrate that Khani through his emphasis on Mam’s dynamic and round character attempts to provide his addressees with a perfect psychological model of the ‘superman’ and has done everything logically possible to characterize Mam; a character that shares a lot with Ruggers’ model of ‘superman’ celebrating the thinker’s psychological traits of a psychologically perfect human such as the potential of acquiring new experiences, living a purposeful life, dependance of self-organism, freedom, and creativity.

Josephus’ Adaptation of the Athaliah Narratives

Abstract Athaliah in Josephus is rarely studied. This paper thus seeks to build on Christopher Begg’s text-critical work by discussing the literary effect of Josephus’ embellishments to the Athaliah narratives. Athaliah in Josephus is shown to be more explicitly foreign and illegitimate than in the biblical texts, but also a more dynamic, rounded character.

Aspects of Characterisation in James Hadley Chase's Crime Fiction: Multiple Perspectives

ABSTRACT In this article we explore two of British crime fiction writer James Hadley Chase's novels in connection with Forster's [Aspects of the Novel] distinction between flat and round characters, later conceptualised by Culpeper [Language and Characterisation, 56] as a scale with certain factors associated with roundness or flatness. Our aim is to position three characters from two of Chase’s novels on the flat/round continuum based on the analysis of selected scenes. The discussion draws together an analysis of agentivity and semantic roles in the first part, which is complemented by an analysis of transitivity patterns and other stylistic features such as naming choices, negation and metaphor in the second part to present an account of characterisation in the selected scenes. Our mixed-method approach under the umbrella of a stylistic analysis of literary texts also makes a case for agentivity analysis (whether a phrase is agentive or non-agentive) to be added to the stylistic toolkit alongside transitivity analysis [Halliday and Matthiesen, Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar; Simpson, Language, Ideology and Point of View], including in the case of metaphorical expressions.

AMIR’S ANXIETY AND MOTIVE IN KHALED HOSSEINI’S THE KITE RUNNER

This paper discusses Amir’s anxiety and motive in Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner". The library research method was applied in this research. In analyzing the data, the structural approach was used to scrutinize the intrinsic elements such as character, conflict, setting, and plot, while the psychological approach was used to examine extrinsic elements such as anxiety and motive of Amir as the main character in “The Kite Runner”. The results show that Amir, as the main character, is a caring, inferior, coward, optimistic, anxious, selfish, careless, sly, and patient person. It also indicates that Amir is a round static character since he has complex traits but his character as a caring person remains the same from the beginning to the end of the story. Besides, as the main character, Amir experienced both internal and external conflicts. The settings of time, social, and place showed the period in Afghanistan between 1975 and 2001 and the social stratum, Pashtun and Hazara in Kabul. Dealing with the plot, it starts from Amir’s effort to get Baba’s recognition and respect, Amir’s anxiety after betraying Hassan, Amir efforts to take Sohrab out from Kabul, the liberation of Sohrab from Assef, the Sohrab suicide trial, up to Amir’s effort to get back Sohrab trust. Also, Amir’s anxiety deals with realistic, neurotic, and moral anxiety, while the motives are safety and security need, belongingness and love need, and self-esteem needs.

The development of ultra-lightweight concrete based on foam glass aggregate.

Foam glass is currently a material produced from waste glass that cannot be used in the glass industry. Therefore, it is currently made from secondary raw materials obtained by recycling unusable waste glass. Due to the large proportion of closed pores in the material structure, the foam glass achieves excellent thermal insulation properties and limited water absorption. The porous structure of the glass is relatively regular, and the pores predominantly have a round character; therefore, the foam glass exhibits very good mechanical properties at a low density. Foam glass in the form of aggregate represents an interesting raw material from which it is possible to produce various types of light composites with a very good ratio of thermal insulation and mechanical properties. The contribution describes the results of research in the field of the development of ultra-lightweight aggregate concretes with subsequent use for producing prefabricated thermal insulating masonry elements for the construction of energy efficient buildings.

PROTAGONIST’S ROUND CHARACTERS IN JOHN GREEN’S NOVEL PAPER TOWNS

This research was aimed at seeing the protagonist's characters portrayed in the novel Paper Towns by John Green. The research applied the theory of Flat and Round Character proposed by E. M. Forster (1993). This research follows qualitative descriptive method proposed by Creswell (2003), an effective model that occurs in a natural setting that enables the researcher to develop a level of detail from being highly involved in the actual experiences. The result of the analysis shows that the significant protagonist's characters in the novel are distinctive self-disclosure, great ambition and affection. All the distinctive characters drive the protagonist to break the string with the people around her and bring a conflict with her parents.

Interrelation of Character-Generated Implicature and Inter-Character Sentimentality: A Comparison of of Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ and Veronica Roth’s ‘Divergent’

Inspired by the cognitive approach to characterisation and in view of relevance theory, this research attempted to outline a relevance-theoretic account of how affective attachment between fictional characters influences writers’ use of implicata through characters as part of inter-character discourse by defining cognitive processes into fictional characters as a pivotal element of implicit characterisation. Our attempt addressed the veracity of such an influence and the question whether awareness of the intensity degree of such sentimentality influences readers’ non-spontaneous interpretation of character-generated implicata and characters’ intention to actually execute relevant implicating. By adherence to defining cognitive processes into character discourse, we conducted an analysis on six samples of implicata exchanges within inter-character verbal discourse between the mutual parties of the primary affective attachment of the narrative, between the protagonist and another round character out of Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ and Veronica Roth’s ‘Divergent’. In every instance of character-generated implication, we found decisive facilitatory influence for awareness of three levels of calculable implicated conclusions, inter-character sentiment intensity, and characters’ communicative intents on readers' achieving what Furlong terms ‘maximal relevance’ through non-spontaneous interpretation of literary texts. Additionally, tracking the progression of inter-character sentiment intensity throughout the two narratives yielded strategic drops during the gradual formation of inter-character bonds employed mainly to demonstrate a mutual sense of fastidiousness in characters’ choice of a companion in romance and also strengthening the said bonds.