Character evaluation is to define a person in terms of quality and personality.
1. First of all, students must truly grasp the main characters and main plots in the book. As the saying goes, it's hard for a good woman to make a meal without rice, so you must first have a reserve of plots related to the characters in your mind. In other words, you need to have an overall perception of the entire book or the characters and events in the entire book. After reading the entire book, you can sort out the main characters and their corresponding main plots.
2. Secondly, grasp the framework of the plot, and basically be able to simply explain the cause, process, and result of the event. Once you have mastered the plot, you can analyze the character traits through the plot. Only by being able to connect the character's personality with the relevant plot can one truly understand it. Memorizing the character's character traits mechanically will have little effect.
3. Finally, when writing a short article, you must remember two points - 1. Clear and focused views; 2. Clear organization.
The point of view is clear and concentrated, which means that when evaluating a character, you must grasp a certain aspect of the character's characteristics when writing. You cannot just list the eyebrows and beard and list a lot of character characteristics, but in the end, none of them is clearly stated. Due to the space limit of short essays, you can only focus on one aspect of the character's characteristics, so that you can clearly express your views, truly connect with the relevant plot, and most importantly, let the examiner see that you have read the book.
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How to write a character analysis paper:
1. Start by mastering the methods and functions of character description and appreciate the characters.
(1) Methods of character description: ① Positive description generally includes appearance description, action description, demeanor description, language description, and psychological description. It means that in literary creation, the author describes the surrounding people and environment through The description is used to express the object to be described so as to make it stand out clearly.
(2) The functions of various description techniques: ① Appearance, demeanor, and action description: better display the character’s inner world and personality traits. ②Language description: A. Describe the character's personality, reflect the character's psychology, and promote the development of the storyline. B. Describe the voice of the character to make the image vivid and vivid on the paper. ③Psychological description: directly express the character's thoughts and inner emotions (contradiction, anxiety, worry, joy, excitement, etc.), express the character's ideological quality, depict the character's personality, and promote the development of the plot. ④Detailed description: Show a certain characteristic of the character in more detail
2. Start by analyzing the environment in which the character moves, and explore the reasons for the formation of the character's fate and ideological personality.
The environment is the place where character activities and stories take place and develop. Specific characters always grow up in a specific environment, so the analysis of the description of the novel's environment is also an important aspect in understanding the character's image. Environmental description is divided into natural environment description and social environment description. The natural environment mainly includes the time, place, scenery, etc. of character activities, and sometimes plays a role in exaggerating the atmosphere. The social environment mainly exaggerates the characteristics of the times. In addition, the environment also plays a role in strengthening the character's personality. In order to express the character's rich and complex personality, the author often sets up various environments for the character to "stimulate" the character and record their various behaviors to reveal the character.
3. Start by analyzing the plot and grasp the character’s characteristics.
Plot is the history of character. The plot is generally developed by describing the conflicts between the characters' thoughts, personalities and emotional desires, as well as the relationships between the characters and the changes in the characters' fate caused by this. As the plot unfolds, vivid and distinctive personalities are reproduced by describing the characters' appearance, behavior and psychological state. Therefore, when appreciating characters, you can start with the plot
When analyzing character traits based on the storyline, you must pay attention to the following four points:
First, be comprehensive, appropriate, and realistic. Character traits draw conclusions from the plot and in turn explain the plot. Only a comprehensive and appropriate conclusion can correctly explain the entire plot
Second, pay attention to the complexity and multiplicity of characters and analyze them from multiple angles.
Third, distinguish the priorities and grasp their main character traits.
Fourth, grasp the development and changes of the character's personality.
4. Start with the relationship between characters and analyze their personalities.
Many novels often provide more than one character, which requires us to accurately analyze the relationship between several characters, determine the priority, and grasp the personality of the main character from the complex relationship between them. feature.
5. Start by analyzing the theme of the novel and try to figure out the author’s evaluation.
Theme is the soul of the novel. The theme of a novel is often reflected through the activities of the characters in the work. Therefore, by analyzing the theme of the novel and trying to figure out the author's creative intention, the character's personality traits can be correctly grasped.