In every narrative format, storytellers work with a cast of characters that is as vast as anyone could imagine. Background or surface-level characters don’t require much in the way of development, sprinkled liberally throughout the story for little more than padding out the world which the storyteller has created. Though it is severely frowned upon in the current day and age, stereotypes are still relied upon for these ‘there and then gone’ characters quite often, not out of any kind of insensitivity on the part of the author, but as a tool of expediency and to convey the underlying message that these characters are not vital to the continuation of either the plot or the development arcs of the primary cast of the story.
Archetypes in Genre: The Soldier
Archetypes in Genre: The Soldier
Archetypes in Genre: The Soldier
In every narrative format, storytellers work with a cast of characters that is as vast as anyone could imagine. Background or surface-level characters don’t require much in the way of development, sprinkled liberally throughout the story for little more than padding out the world which the storyteller has created. Though it is severely frowned upon in the current day and age, stereotypes are still relied upon for these ‘there and then gone’ characters quite often, not out of any kind of insensitivity on the part of the author, but as a tool of expediency and to convey the underlying message that these characters are not vital to the continuation of either the plot or the development arcs of the primary cast of the story.