Wednesday, October 31, 2012

What is 1 aspect of indirect and direct characterization in "The Interlopers"? Saki's "The Interlopers"

Characters in narratives are developed and revealed in a
number of indirect
ways:


  1. through a physical
    description of the character

  2. through the character's
    actions

  3. through the character's thoughts, feelings, and
    speeches

  4. through the comments and reactions of other
    characters

In Saki's "The Interlopers" one use
of indirect characterization comes in the presentation of
the feud between Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg
Znaeym:


In another use of indirect
characterization, after disaster has struck the two men, Ulrich von Gradwitz has a
change of heart from his bloodlust for his enemy.  After realizing the value to life,
von Gradwitz tells Znaeym:

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"Neighbour,...do as you please if your men come
first.  It was a fair compact.  But as for me, I've changed my mind.  If my men are the
first to come you shall be the first to be helped, as though you were my guest.  We have
quarrelled like devils all our lives over this stupid strip of forest, where the trees
can't even stand upright in a breath of wind.  Lying her tonight thinking I've come to
think we've been rather fools; there are better things in life than getting the better
of a boundary dispute.  Neighbour, if you will help me to bury the old quarrel I--I will
ask you to be my friend."



In
direct characterization, the author
tells rather than dramatizes as illustrated
above in the indirect characterization.  Here is an example of direct
characterization
in which Saki tells the reader about the two enemies in
his exposition to the story:


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...as boys they had thirsted for one another's
blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the
other....


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