Good and Bad Characters: A Poetic Difference
Keywords:
characters, poetics, screenwriting, Aristotle, García-NoblejasAbstract
This article reflects on the notion of good and bad characters in a fictional world. The study is done from a humanistic perspective and considers the poetic proposal of Juan José García-Noblejas (1982) and Paul Ricoeur (1987). The paper suggests that a character is good as long as it serves the world of fiction in which it is, whereas the world of fiction is good - in the sense of complete - insofar as it is able to "do justice" to the part of human life it represents.
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