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Character Delineation in Achebe’s Arrow of God, A Man of

the People and Anthills of the Savannah

 

Abstract

This work studies character delineation in Chinua Achebe’s novels.

The researcher agrees that characterization is one of the most

important elements of fiction because no novelist can effectively

pass across his message to his audience if not through the

characters he creats. One’s ability to write an acceptable novel

depends largely on his ability to create credible characters. Achebe

has always been the African leading novelist partly because of how

superbly he invents and manipulates his characters. In writing this

thesis, the researcher starts by discussing character and

characterization existensively. Opinions of scholars on

character/characterization are sought. The researcher also seeks

opinions of scholars of Achebe’s method of characterization.

Character delineation in the novel novels is equally copiously

discussed. Finally, the researcher juxtaposes Achebe’s novels for

the similarities and differences in the way he manipulates his

characters to be seen.

 

Chapter One

Introduction

1.1 Background to the study

 

Every novel aims to pass across the writer's message to his

audience. It is not a fallacy to say that there is no way the author

can pass his message if not through the characters he created.

Characters are the persons represented in a narrative work,

who are interpreted by the reader as possessing particular moral,

intellectual, and emotional qualities by what they say, what they

do, and what others say about them. On the other hand,

characterization is the method or combination of method used to

portray that person or being. Chris Baldick says that

characterization is;

….the representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works.

This may include direct methods like the attribution of qualities

in description or comment, and indirect (or 'dramatic')

methods inviting readers to infer qualities from character's

action, speech, or appearance. Since E. M. Forster's Aspects

of the Novel (1927) a distinction has often been made

between 'flat' and 'two-dimensional' characters, which are

simple and unchanging, and 'round' characters, which are

complex, 'dynamic' (i.e. subject to development), and less

predictable. (Concise Dictionary of Literary Term, 37).

Characterization has been defined in various ways by critics.

Thrall, William Flint and Addison Hibbard say that characterization is

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the depicting, in writing, of clear images of a person, his actions and

manners of thought and life. A man's nature, environment, habits,

emotions, desires, instincts, all these go to make people what they

are, and the skilful writer makes his important people clear to us

through a portrayal of these elements. (A Handbook to Literature.