The role of dynamic characters As a person matures throughout the years of their lives, there are people who will maintain the same characteristics as when they were young, and there are people who will develop different ideas and beliefs and transform themselves into a whole new person. The people who strive to change and are able to make a difference, in the end, are called “dynamic characters” in novels. Depending on how much the person adjusts to their surroundings, determines whether they will lose or gain relationships. In Pride and Prejudice and “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, there are characters specifically, main characters who change drastically from the beginning to the end of the novel. These characters change their way of thinking,
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Darcy. First, she hears from Mr. Wickham- who has really negative and hateful words to describe him. Next, she has Mr. Darcy’s servant’s words of praise in describing him. After hearing both of their sides, she hears from Colonel Fitzwilliam, who reveals the truth of Mr. Darcy dissuading Mr. Bingley out of his relationship with Jane. While having all of this in mind and being confused about who Mr. Darcy really is, the unexpected happens. The next thing she experiences is when Mr. Darcy proposes to her, but after hearing the truth that he was responsible for her sister’s unhappy love life, she could not accept him. She confidently states “I have every reason in the world to think ill of you… Long before… my opinion of you was decided… from the very beginning… your manners...your conceit, and your selfish disdain...I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed to marry.” (Austen 174) With this long speech, we see how Elizabeth has been keeping every detail of him in mind, but still remembers her first reaction to him to truly feel ill of him. Without any more excuses, she continues the next day, as if nothing happened, but she could not stop thinking that she has been asked out by Darcy. With everything on her shoulders, the most important thing that helped change her mind about him occurs. Mr. Darcy avoiding eye contact decides to give her a fully detailed letter …show more content…
In “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, one of the main characters that help make a ‘twist’ in the play is Mrs. Erlynne. She is revealed by the author only to the reader and Lord Windermere, but not to the other characters in the play. The character of Mrs. Erlynne is a mystery in itself. She starts as being described as a “horrid woman…(who) dresses so well… and (who) must have a dozen (men whom she attracts)” (Wilde 222) From the beginning she is described as a woman with low status and with great distaste from all the women in high society. As Duchess of Berwick describes to both the reader and Lady Windermere that Mrs. Erlynne has been spending a lot of her time with Lord Windermere- “He goes to see her continually, and stops for hours at a time…” (Wilde 223) The reader gets the first clue- that Lord Windermere knows who she really is and that if he is spending so much time with her, then it must be for a good cause. (Eltis
Darcy. First, she hears from Mr. Wickham- who has really negative and hateful words to describe him. Next, she has Mr. Darcy’s servant’s words of praise in describing him. After hearing both of their sides, she hears from Colonel Fitzwilliam, who reveals the truth of Mr. Darcy dissuading Mr. Bingley out of his relationship with Jane. While having all of this in mind and being confused about who Mr. Darcy really is, the unexpected happens. The next thing she experiences is when Mr. Darcy proposes to her, but after hearing the truth that he was responsible for her sister’s unhappy love life, she could not accept him. She confidently states “I have every reason in the world to think ill of you… Long before… my opinion of you was decided… from the very beginning… your manners...your conceit, and your selfish disdain...I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed to marry.” (Austen 174) With this long speech, we see how Elizabeth has been keeping every detail of him in mind, but still remembers her first reaction to him to truly feel ill of him. Without any more excuses, she continues the next day, as if nothing happened, but she could not stop thinking that she has been asked out by Darcy. With everything on her shoulders, the most important thing that helped change her mind about him occurs. Mr. Darcy avoiding eye contact decides to give her a fully detailed letter …show more content…
In “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, one of the main characters that help make a ‘twist’ in the play is Mrs. Erlynne. She is revealed by the author only to the reader and Lord Windermere, but not to the other characters in the play. The character of Mrs. Erlynne is a mystery in itself. She starts as being described as a “horrid woman…(who) dresses so well… and (who) must have a dozen (men whom she attracts)” (Wilde 222) From the beginning she is described as a woman with low status and with great distaste from all the women in high society. As Duchess of Berwick describes to both the reader and Lady Windermere that Mrs. Erlynne has been spending a lot of her time with Lord Windermere- “He goes to see her continually, and stops for hours at a time…” (Wilde 223) The reader gets the first clue- that Lord Windermere knows who she really is and that if he is spending so much time with her, then it must be for a good cause. (Eltis