The main characters of narratives are generally round - Dickens’s Pip springs readily to mind - though this is by no means a prerequisite. Forster points out that both types of characters are essential to any narrative, and I tend to agree with him - if all literature consisted of only round characters, then every novel would read like War and Peace. Forster in his lecture, Aspects of the Novel (1927), refer to characters with multiple, often contradictory personality traits and those with a single character trait. Q: “What is the difference between a ’round character’ and a ‘dynamic character’?”Ī: The terms “round character” and “flat character,” first coined by British novelist E.M.
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