Characters Analysis in Stories

Characters Analysis in Stories

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During your time reading stories, you must have encountered character that you like and character that you dislike because of several reasons. Most of the times, the factors of liking or disliking are related to appearance, attitude, behaviour, styles, and also some implicit elements such as the way the characters treat other characters.
However, after reading and listening to the two given stories, you must have realized that proper appearance, and polite attitude can be some objects of hypocrisy that cloak the dark traits within a certain figure in a story.

After getting exposed to such characters, and discussing several other examples, please reflect to what you have read and listen from the previous materials, and think about this:
1. How does an author develop a story using such deceiving qualities of some characters? What do you think if Severus Snape from Harry Potter carried an pure angelic figure instead of cold and harsh traits as a killer teacher?
2. Imagine you have to develop a story, what would you do to your protagonist and antagonist to create an interesting story? Which fictional work(s) would you like to reflect as reference? Why?
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by Reynaldi Gabriel Pratama -
1. The author can use a character with deceiving qualities as a place for the author to place surprising events or to complicate the current storyline.
I think the story will feel different from the original version, but of course if the author is able to make Saverus Snape a character that remains unforgettable character, I don't really mind about it.

2. I want the story to be less about right or wrong, but more about their different goals. I want both the protagonist and the antagonist to have a different ideology and that's what makes them fight.
A comic called Drifters Which published in 2009.
Because from the first three Protagonists, it has been shown that the three of them fight not for a "good cause" but rather for their own desires and goals.
While the antagonists themselves are a collection of people who hate Humans who have destroyed too much of to the nature, and the cruelty they do to other races. If we look at it for a moment we can see that the goal of the antagonist is more noble than our protagonist and that's what made me choose this story.
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by Andreano Nabiel Chaesa -
1. Author can use a character with deceiving qualites maybe in bad way or maybe in a good way. The good way maybe the author can tell the character back stories or the past event that the characther has gone through. The bad way maybe just forget about the character and move on to new character that is related to the character.
Well i think it might be weird for lot of people or the fans of the movie it self, especially because they already get used to Severus Snape as a cold and harsh character but i think it's not going to change the plot a lot its just kind of weird seeing Severus Snape acts different.

2. I have an idea that the protagonist and the antagonist once was a friend or maybe family related and they were doing journey across the world and help people as many as possible. And the protagonist will help people to solve their problem whole hearted. While the antagonist was trying to help people but he didn't do it as good as the protagonist so he/she received a bad feedback from lots of people around the world. And the antagonist got treated like a villain so he decided to become one.
The reference is from anime named Naruto which is this story is kinda similar to Indra and Ashura. Where they used to be love living brothers and someday, their father decided to give them a mission to help people in the village, and Ashura was doing good while Indra wasn't doing his best to help the people in the village. And after they finished their mission they return to their home and their father was about to announce who will be the one that succeed in this mission and the winner is Ashura. Than Indra was upset and he got mad and he decided to attack his dad and his brother Ashura. And Ashura with the help from his dad and the people from the village managed to defeat Indra that day. I choose this as a reference because this story is unique and there is message that the author was trying to give to the audience. The moral story is that when u help people with the willing of helping without hoping anything back people will treat you nicely and will help you sometime in the future.
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by RAHMA DHEA AGUSTINA -
1. the author really like giving a plot twist, making some what "good characters" turns out to be a "bad characters" but despite that if you think about it carefully not every beautiful flower is sweet and delicious they can be poisonous too right. while im not really familiar whit this severus snape thing, i feel like that'll be boring. reader and audience would love to see some plot twists and stuff. so severus snape might not get the recognition he deserve.

2. i like dark story, something that related to "bad stuff". i find it mental illness and abusive stuff intresting since not many people know it i want to know how to handle that kind of situation or people who suffer from it. while i like watching anime the plot seems to be the same just different universe. so recently i was hocked with vocaloid songs. the dark vocaloid songs, the short mv that doenst make sense filled with gruesome lyrics yet cheerful melody. one of my favorite producer is kikuo. if i were making a story rather than making her life pitiful from the beginning i want to make her having downfall in her life. i want her to have weird personality someone that fit for "antagonist". i dont want hope nor friendship, my character have to find her own way of solving things. i dont want to make a good ending either thats boring. since its just story i want her to suffer so much then die leaving everything behind. thats the kind of story i want to make.
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by Naila Faza -
1. maybe the author can make the character a good person in the first story until the middle and even near the end. then not give the character's past story until the right time arrives. to be honest, i've never seen harry potter, maybe i've a bit of it in one of the episodes, and i'm not sure i remember that.

2. I want to make a plot twist that can make the audience feel very annoyed with the protagonist and antagonist. the point is to make a story that is very surprising when given the answer from each character. and maybe I will use a reference story from a Korean drama entitled Vincenzo. because so many plot twists in it, each character turns out to have something special hidden, and surprises. there are terrible characters at the beginning of the story who turn out to be good people, then there are very hidden antagonists who can make the audience wrongly accuse. but the story has a happy ending.
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by Fiter Ardani -
1. Usually the writer makes a character who is actually good, but his behavior is suspicious like an antagonist, and to make the reader cannot easily guess the storyline.
Maybe the story becomes too ordinary because there is no plot twist so maybe the surprise effect for the reader will be lost when they find out that Severus Snape is actually the protagonist.

2. I want the protagonist to be not completely good and his nature can change, as well as the antagonist character who is not completely evil, but also has a good side in him.
I took the reference from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, one of the characters in the film named Hector Barbossa in the first movie he became the antagonist character, he became the enemy of Jack Sparrow as the main character because he betrayed, but in the third movie, Hector Barbossa became the protagonist, because he went to save the dead Jack Sparrow to return to the world. Because in this movie we can see that even bad people still have a good side in them and good people also have an evil side in them, and that makes the plot of the story difficult to predict.
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by Ayang Ragil Putri -
1. The author can use characters with deceiving qualities in the stories in order to attract readers' interest. It is designed to confuse things in a story that are already known or understood. The author will twist the plot by giving an unexpected surprise through the previous events.
Audiences are probably used to Severus Snape's spooky and grumpy character, and turning it into someone who looks good and maybe friendly too, will feel a little weird and out of place.

2. I want to make a storyline by placing the antagonist and the protagonist who are in different castes, perspectives, and behavior. If you take the reference from the Korean drama series that I've watched, School 2015, there are the antagonist, Kang So Young, and the protagonist, Lee Eun Bi. It told that Lee Eun Bi is a student who is often bullied by Kang So Young and her friends. However, after many events that resulted in Lee Eun Bi transferring schools to a new school, Kang So Young apparently moved to that school as well. Lee Eun Bi with her twin and all her friends unite to avenge the actions that have been done by Kang So Young to Lee Eun Bi.
I really like this story because there is also a moral message that we can take from this story, which is never to underestimate other people, don't bother and treat others arbitrarily, because we don't know what will happen next to us and our fate.
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by AZ-ZAHRA MAHADITSA -
1. Some story with spices about the quality of deceiving characters is good for those who like stories that have unimaginable plots, because sometimes stories like that are actually liked by some circles. but for some people who don't like the existence of some kind of deceptive quality the characters may lose interest while reading the story.

2. I have a slightly strange idea but I think this is what I will make, which is about the main character, namely an evil man (antagonist), can be called the ruler of the dark world / mafiso, who gets an offer from a cruel king candidate to get rid of his nephew in order he can ascend the throne. namely a good woman who will become a queen (protagonist). she is a woman who is smart, elegant and polite,.. at first she knew not to avenge her uncle's actions when she herself was sold with expensive diamonds to be killed by the mafiso, but because the mafiso also had the advantage of the woman who ended up inciting the woman to take revenge what his uncle had done, by continuing to haunt him and turning his good nature into a brutal woman who did not know the rules. although the story will have many surprising parts, but in the end the woman fell to her knees in front of mafiso as well as mafiso who appreciates and begins to open his heart to the woman and still gets more places of power.
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by Nurul Afifah -
1. From my point of view, character development is such an important thing for an author to make the story more interesting. It could be from the character's motivation and goal, personality, backstory, and others. Severus Snape with his harsh and cold traits is already amazing for me. He carried so many plot twists, he made me have a different thought of him in every series due to how mysterious he is with his harsh and cold traits. If he carried a pure angelic figure, I don't think the plot will be interesting as before because he always surprised me with his unpredictable and unbelievable character.

2. The reference that I took is Moriarty the Patriot. Start with my favorite antagonist in season 2; Charles Augustus Milverton, a media mogul who has earned the reputation of Blackmailer King in the Victorian era. When Moriarty the Patriot introduced Charles Augustus Milverton, it was quite creepy and tense, you can sense his evil and malicious intent towards everyone. That appearance is the most important thing for me to antagonist. Whether William is a protagonist or antagonist, I would like to take his character as my protagonist. He's not only intelligent but dangerous—that what Milverton thought about him. And I love how manipulative William is sometimes. But no one can beat Milverton in terms of danger and shadiness. But he knew, he had to eliminate Sherlock and William before they expose him due to how witty they are. The plot of Milverton and the death of Whitley is an interesting plot that I'd like to use as a reference. He arranged the death of Whitley’s family. He Whitley’s disabled brother; Sam. Milverton deceived Whitley when he came to accuse him of the blackmail evidence that he received from the Moriarty. Milverton agreed to cooperate with Whitley but backstabs him and orders the killings of Whiteley’s family.
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by Pebri Husnain Hakim -
1. If there is an author who makes a story like that, then it will give a new surprise and colour for the readers. It will attract attention. And as if Snape was a pure angelic character, it wouldn't surprise his readers if he did good after.

2. For the protagonist, I will make it have 3 things, namely goals, wounds, and cure. Goals from the protagonist is important because the driver of story. And what is Wounds and cure? Wound is an obstacle to the story that is in the protagonist. The problem in story and wound is difference. Problems in the story involve other characters. But wounds must be overcome by the protagonist himself for the development of his character. The protagonist must be tortured with wounds and continuously. And after that, give a cure to heal his wounds. Cure is the answer to his wounds that will make the readers feel the protagonist is very interesting.

For the antagonist, I will make it have 2, namely goals and motivation. The goal is clearly to prevent the protagonist from doing what he wants. This is also included in the plot of the story and involves many people. In addition, don't forget to provide strong motivation to provide the other side for readers to see. That way, the antagonist is less hated and maybe even more liked by the reader.

For reference, I want to make a story like Attack On Titan. Why? Because The characters in the story are unique. You can't find a villain is the protagonist himself. And the antagonist who used to be considered evil must stop the evil of the protagonist himself.
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by Yustie Alya Maharanie -
1. Authors usually use a method with initially one character that is good and one character that is bad. But over time, he was surprised by the fact that the good characters turned out to be evil and the characters who looked evil were actually good. In this way, of course, the reader will not be bored and will always be surprised by the plot twists. For the character of Severus Snape from Harry Potter, the character traits can be changed or with other surprises but so far many people may not agree with the change in the character who was already known to be evil, but it could be fun haha ​​I'm just kidding, because I don't know for sure the character of the character in harry potter, i only watched it briefly first and didn't really watch the whole plot of the story.
2. I want to develop a story where the content of the characters is opposite to each other's nature, character and thoughts. And they are always rivals in anything. For example, like the anime Naruto and Sasuke. In the story they always fight and always have different opinions. But over time they became friends, of course the struggle to make friends was not that easy to have to fight until one of his friends recognized him as his friend. It inspires me and how important friendship is. What is difficult is only to maintain relationships between friendships because even though we already have one friend, over time in different social environments, of course we will get friends again and friends who have accompanied us from small to large are abandoned and forgotten because they have chosen friendship. new social environment. But not for Naruto and Sasuke.
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by Muhammad Rangga Ar-Rasyid -
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1. In my opinion I will make the character die so that the character is forgotten with a new character,if Severus Snape turns into a good character maybe the story will be less interesting.
2.I will make them friends at first then throughout the story they will experience conflicts that will not be finished, after that the antagonist character repents because he realizes that the protagonist has been very good so far,the work of fiction that I use as a reference is the film uttaran,because if you see most people like ironic drama.
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by kahlil gibran -
1. In my opinion, if an author uses this technique to develop a story to make the readers are not aware and it will surprise them, and shows the development of the character so that the story will become much more interesting and makes everyone who reads it wondering about the continuation of the story. And by building a character with a tricky trait, whether it's those who look evil but a good person or those who look good but they were meant to be evil. It will be one of the biggest plot twists that the readers or viewers don't care about it before.

2. I wanna make a story, to be more precise, I want to change Batman's story, in the film Batman is a person who eradicates crime, robbery, criminals and even eradicates all big-name criminals such as kingpin, Deathstroke, and others, especially the joker of his sworn enemy in Gotham city, in the batman story eradicate the enemy by taking down the enemy and taking him to prison and the most difficult enemy to catch is the joker or the main antagonist, I have an idea to make the story more interesting, I want to make the Batman character even more brutal to eradicate the enemy without feeling Forgiveness, for example, he just kills his enemies so that there will be no more crime in Gotham City. That will make the film or game more interesting. I think Batman is too obedient to the law so he refuses to kill his enemy. resident in Gotham city so I just want to change the storyline more it is dark and more gore and I want to change the character of the joker even more cruelly so that it can provoke batman's emotions and have more ambitions to kill the joker what I want is to make Gotham city free from crime and make batman act more violently or kill his mush merciless and that makes the story more interesting and the audience can also witness the brutal action of batman, that's the story I will raise if I can change the story
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by FRISCA RAHMADANY -
1. I think that the way an author develop stories using the deceptive qualities of some people is quite an effective way to make the stories more interesting. By the deceptive qualities of some of the characters, the reader is both surprised and impressed by the story read, since it turns out that it doesn't fit the reader's expectations or could be called a plot twist. And for my opinion of Severus Snape, to be honest, I don't watch harry potter movies very much, I don't watch harry potter completely. But from what I can tell, though, perhaps if Severus Snape were made to be the pure angelic figure, the impression of the character was less interesting because of the mysterious character Severus Snape, it made the audience curious about the character and surprised by the fact that Severus Snape was the protagonist.

2. If I had to develop a story, I would create a quite mysterious protagonist, and create an antagonist who appears to be the victim. The protagonist will be suspicious because the character is mysteriously portrayed, although he knows the facts. I want to make the reader upset with an antagonist who turns out to be a victim or playing victim. The reference I was taking was a mysterious story from twitter (it's actually fan fiction) but to be honest, I had forgotten its title. Why would I take reference to that story? Because I quite like mystery stories and also that contain plot twist.
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by ANELLA.VELYA.KUSUMA21 ANELLA.VELYA.KUSUMA21 -
1. The story will not be as interesting as it used to be as it was originally made because of course the feeling you get when reading will decrease and will certainly reduce the interest of readers from this Harry Potter lover.
2. The way I do the antagonist role is by getting rid of her slowly like making her regret what she did and all the bad things she did are known to everyone, now for the protagonist role I will make the role oppressed by people a bad person and he is patient in dealing with it all but in the end she will be happy.
the work of fiction that I will use as a reference is "laureen style" why? because in that story I got a lot of experience about how the life of a broken home child, and how she survives in the midst of a broken family, about how is her lover was taken by her step sister and her brother was also taken by her step sister And in the story From that, I can conclude that something that we take in a bad way will not last long because what is it because behind the happiness we get there is someone who is hurt for the actions we do, but I really salute the character of Laureen she can fight people who oppressed her and made the person who was evil to him unable to move anymore. for example the stepmother who always seeks attention in front of her father and always lies about what Laureen is doing.
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by NADILA ZAHRA DIVA W -
1. I think the author develops a story by using a deceptive quality like the example of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter film, by describing the character of Severus Snape as a mysterious or suspicious person, at first he looks like a rude, cold person but he turns out to be a good person.

2. If I develop a story for the protagonist I will describe him as a calm, friendly and quiet character but very smart. while my first antagonist character will describe him as a good character on the outside, but turns out to be very bad and cunning. The work of fiction that I want to use as a reference is a drama from Korea entitled "boys over flower" because the drama is very good and detailed or tells the problem from the beginning to the end is very cool and clear.
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by Ratu Intan Thahira -
1. The author has a purpose to make their story interesting and full of intrigue so the readers won't be bored. As far as I'm concerned, the character's development depends on the plot of the story. However, a good plot of the story can make the characters develop. In Severus Snape case, they gave us a wondrous plot where we thought that Snape is the 'bad guy' in the story, turns out he has a noble intention and his own reason to become that cold and harsh. I'm not that crazy over Harry Potter theory because I only watched the movie. But that's all I see and say.

2. If I develop a story where I can freely imagine about it, I would make readers can guessing or judging the characters. I want to build a curiosity in their mind, and make them to assume from their perspective. Humans are judging a lot and I want them to judge my characters too. And maybe at the end of the story I could make a great plot twist or I could just make it hanging so readers can evaluate it by themselves. I don't know, I think I'm confuse with my idea and my own mind.
The fictional book that I take as a reference is Claires by Valerie Patkar. The story is about cheating and betraying her boyfriend. Maybe we would hate Claire (the protagonist) for betraying her 4 years relationship or maybe we would hate the man that appeared in their-perfect-relationship. But if we understand their situation, we can also understand the reason why they did that. It's not that I agree and support for what they did, but I just try to understand their feeling. Somehow pro and contra is fun :) The author of Claires also has some works that left us hanging and guessing whether the story has a happy or sad ending. And it didn't irritating me.
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by Arianti Saputra -
1. The readers like something that interesting and surprising and to do that the author must create an interesting work, and the method of using deceiving qualities is a powerful thing. It makes a misconception - that good plot twists are the ones that come from nowhere and no one can see coming. I think the original story would change the storyline of the series (not the whole but some part will change) even from the beginning of the story, because Severus is one of the most important characters, his attitude, figure and demeanor is the effect of what happened in the story, this is the same as the butterfly effect.

2. I want to make a story that confuses readers. uses a mysterious first-person point of view, a closed and not all-knowing point of view. I also want to make a story that makes the reader not choose the main player as the protagonist, but as the antagonist. I think I would use The False Prince as my reference, Because I loved the main character and the way he not only kept secrets from other characters but from us as readers. The plot had a good twist, it was mind-blowing, even though I think some of the readers suspected it early on, that they were still second-guessing right up till the Big Reveal.