how to structure a character analysis

Question 1

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Material goods: Dress, possessions

Character: Strengths, flaws, temperament

Question 2

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mention frequency of appearances

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Context: time, place, historical, cultural, spiritual, specific settings

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mention Significance/representation: personifications, embodiments, Everyman figures, stock character types, caricatures, doppelgangers, protagonists, deuteragonists, tritagonists

Question 5

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mention Background: upbringing, key events of the past

Actions/experiences: choices, intentions, motivation, trajectory, reversals

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mention Relationships: reputation, family, friends, alliances, enemies, doppelgängers, foils, counterparts

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Language: dialect, accent, frequency of speech, pace, volume, syntax, idiolect

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Physical self/appearance: Mannerisms, gestures, posture, movement, facial expressions, manner of entrances and exits; caricatures