Science Elements Oxygen


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Science Elements Oxygen

Science Elements Oxygen

Writers have been adding knowledge from the sciences and other disciplines to create the most influential characters in the world's literature for centuries. Characters live and tell stories but they also tell about the evolution and development of the human being.

History and Character Development

The ancient Greeks were famous for their tragedies, making a character’s downfall a consistent theme.The anonymous writers in the Middle Ages showed lack of interest in individualized characterization. Knights and ladies were idealized by the medieval authors in their romances.There was a change in the late Middle Ages and the impulse toward individualism reasserted itself in some of the most memorable characters in the history of literature found in the narrative poems by Dante and Chaucer. By the early Renaissance the four “humours” were incorporated into fiction writing and characters were born having a choleric, melancholic, sanguine or phlegmatic personality. In the same way, nowadays, other sciences like sociology, psychology and genetics just to mention some, have approached characterization contributing to a wider view of characters and how they have been influenced by the environment as well as by psychological matters. Naturalist writers contributed by adding the scientific approaches of Charles Darwin and Cesare Lombroso to fictional characters showing a view of human destiny determined by forces of heredity and environment that are beyond the individual’s control, being those the first steps before considering the Freudian psychology as a resource to add the unconscious motives of actions to the psyche of the characters.