Round Character Analysis

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Veterinarian, a round character Objective Character may be defined as the unique set of traits and features that form the nature of a fictional person. Characters that the reader will remember start with a basis of reality. The writer takes a trait, the mannerisms or perhaps the appearance of someone he has known and adds to and embellishes it, drawing from his imagination. Sometimes a character is a composite. Often a character reflects the writer's own background or fantasies. The character's motivation, the "why" of his behavior is revealed through his dialogue and actions. He is the sum of everything that has happened to him in his fictional life: a character with flesh and blood and genuine emotions who brings the validity of truth to a work of fiction. (Character, http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/C.asp#192, Retrieved on 17/06/2003). A round character is a fictional person so specifically portrayed and described as to be recognizable and individually different from any other character in a novel, play or film. The protagonist and other main participants of a work are usually round characters: Their development is complex and tends to focus on their inner person (motivations, human traits, flaws, conflicts, distinctive qualities). Hamlet, for example, is a round character. (Round Character, http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/r.asp, Retrieved on 17/06/2003). In pre-medical times there is reference to veterinary related topics in the 14th Century manuscript 'Sachsenspiegel' (Saxons' Mirror), and in French 12th Century epics that celebrate mounted men-at-arms; they describe horses in times of health and disease, and elsewhere in the literature horse injuries have been described. (Some examples of Veterinarians in Belletrist Lit...

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...re, http://www.vetscite.org/cgi-bin/pw.exe/issue2/000013/000013.htm, Retrieved on 17/06/2003). In the last analysis, it is surprising that the literature does not reveal more references to veterinary surgeons at a time when the art of horseshoeing was evolving into veterinary medicine. It may be said here that Veterinarian has almost never been portrayed as a round character in literature. (Some examples of Veterinarians in Belletrist Literature, http://www.vetscite.org/cgi-bin/pw.exe/issue2/000013/000013.htm, Retrieved on 17/06/2003). References (Character, http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/C.asp#192, Retrieved on 17/06/2003). (Round Character, http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/r.asp, Retrieved on 17/06/2003). (Some examples of Veterinarians in Belletrist Literature, http://www.vetscite.org/cgi-bin/pw.exe/issue2/000013/000013.htm, Retrieved on 17/06/2003).

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