Her Inner Conflict pulls her in two opposite directions, both unrelenting.īack to your question. The woman both wants to be a part of the war, and end the war, simultaneously. Out of love for her sister, the woman seeks to end the war entirely. At the same time, her sister is sickened by the war. Inner Conflict can manifest in two ways: either two opposing desires in direct opposition to each other, or sides of the protagonist (dimensions) that are incompatible, and therefore conflict.ĭuring a war, a woman seeks vengeance against the enemy for the murder of her parents. As has pointed out with Harry Potter, this is because they need something more: Inner Conflict. Your hero needs strength, but with nothing else, he will still bore the reader. The strongest of strengths are self-sacrifice and forgiveness (notice: they are both selfless qualities).
Honesty, integrity, humility, humor, thrift, etc. Main characters need a strength, some quality about them that the reader can root for. Who wants to read about someone we don't care about? This is fine, but what they seem to forget is that we have to like the characters too. I believe it goes deeper than that though.Įvery protagonist in a book (who should always be multi-dimensional) needs two basic parts: strength and inner conflict.Ī lot of people like to focus on making sure their characters are flawed. Once again, as Jay pointed out, multi-dimensional characters can take several lines to sum up, because they have several different characteristics.
They are more complex and harder to figure out than one-dimensional characters. Multi-dimensional characters have several layers, facets, or dimensions to them. There's nothing wrong with one-dimensional characters, as long as they don't have a large part to play in the story. As Jay has pointed out, a one-dimensional character can often be summed up in one line or phrase. This reflects a character that lacks depth, as if he was made of only one dimension. I have heard of one-dimensional and multi-dimensional. Like others here, I have never heard of two- or three-dimensional characters. I would firstly like to say that the answer by is excellent, and provides some good pointers on which characters should be one-dimensional or three-dimensional.
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