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Character Theories

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Character Theories

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A character is a person in a narrative work of arts such as a novel, play, TV series or film. In my answer I will be using character theories of Erving Goffman, Vladimir Propps and Richard Bartle to analyze the characters of the film “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief”.

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Goffman’s theory suggest that there are four main types of broad characters in media text and those are

The Protagonist

The Deuterogamist

The Bit Player

The Fool

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In this movie Percy is the protagonist as he is the leading character of the film

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Grover and Annabeth are the deuterogamist as they were supporting Percy (protagonist) throughout the film

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The bit player in the movie is played by Luke who is given nery less screen time at the beginning making him an ordinary character but in the end audience finds out that he is a lightning thief.

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Grover can also be consider as a fool character as some of the dialogues he delivered in the movie were hilarious

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Propp’s Theory:

There are 6 broad character types

1. The Villain

2. The Donor

3. The (magical) helper

4. The Princess

5. Her Father

6. The Dispatcher

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In this movie, Luke is the villain as he tried to put Percy in trouble.

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The magical helpers in this movie were played by Annabeth and Grover as they were there to help Percy during the fight and accompanied him to the grand meeting with the lords.

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Annabeth is also “The Princess” of the movie as she is Percy’s love interest

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However, Princess’s Father and The Dispatcher is not present in this movie

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Bartle’s character theory:

He divided the characters in 4 categories

1 Achievers

2 Explorers

3. Socializers

4. Killers

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Percy is the Achiever in this movie as he achieved his goal that was to stop the war form happening between the Gods.

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Percy, Grover and Annabeth could be categorize as explorers as they had the map with them to find the three pearls that would take them to Olympus.

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However, Socializers and Killer is missing in this movie