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  • Round or flat?

    • October 6, 2018
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    Characters fall on a continuum between round and flat.  At the ‘round’ end of the spectrum characters are dynamic and less predictable.  They have a wider range of qualities, some which may even appear contradictory.  They will have a richer inner life and can experience regret and self-reflection.  Their personalities are capable of change.  They
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  • Power

    • September 19, 2018
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      One of the key aspects of most narratives is the nature and expression of power.  Characters are enmeshed in a web of social and political forces within which they possess greater or lesser agency.  Where people exist within these power relationships and how they respond to them goes a long way to defining who
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  • Alphonse Moreau

    • September 1, 2018
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      Alphonse Moreau completes our coterie of bad guys in part 1 who are under the direction of Bechard.  He is a minor character who only appears in chapter 8 (‘Threads’) and although, unlike ‘Paul’, we get to know little about him as a person nonetheless he is significant to the novel in several ways.
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