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Ch. 6
Character - Coggle Diagram
Ch. 6
Character
Conflict
Internal Conflicts
Internal conflicts are those arising when abstract ideas—social conventions, destiny, history, government, etc.—interfere with a character’s plans or ideals. Internal conflicts and intellectual tensions are particularly useful for designers in conceiving the physical production
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The essence of drama lies in continuous conflict in each minute and each second of stage action. Conflict is an axiom of drama. There is no life on stage outside of conflict.
Action
Action is the forcing behavior that characters direct toward each other to accomplish their objectives.
Character A forces Character B; B receives the forcing and adjusts to it; and then B forces A; A receives the forcing and adjusts to it; and then A forces B, etc., until the event is interrupted, delayed, or resolved either by A or B getting the better of the other or else by a deadlock.
Using the predefined objectives, most of these actions are evident from the dialogue itself.
Adaptations-An Aside
Adaptations are the psychological and physical ingenuities characters use in adjusting themselves to one another in a variety of relationships and as an aid in carrying out an objective
actions are “what” the characters do, and qualities are “how” they do them
that adaptations and qualities are not inbuilt, like progressions and objectives, but instead they are used by the actors to color their actions.
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Willpower
willpower is the specific combination of determination and self-discipline that a character uses to accomplish an objective . Some characters have difficult, life-changing objectives and push their willpower to the limit to achieve them.
all characters have willpower of a sort. It’s only that some objectives are more audacious than others, just as some of the actions associated with them are more audacious than others.
Although characters are sometimes studies if they were real people, in fact they function more as androids, whose programming depends on the playwright, director and actor.
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Values
Values are the beliefs that shape a character’s opinions of good and bad, right and wrong. Values might be virtues, vices, or a mixture of honest convictions and tactics only adopted for short-term gains.
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