They Aren't Real

"No study of character should ignore the fact that charcters in fiction participate in the dramatic and thematic structures of the works in which they appear and that the meaning of their behavior is often to be understood in terms of its function within these structures" (Paris 216).

Sometimes when I am writing a paper on a work, it is hard for me to refer to the work's characters as to what their imporance was in the work and their relation to it in general. I sometimes end up analyzing them or refering to them as if they had once actually existed. I know that for my final paper in this class, if I want to discuss any characters in my paper, this is one weakness I will have to look out for. Most of the time I do it without even realizing it.

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