Such characters as these were created because the audience could relate to them and laugh. As the people changed, so too did stock characters. More were added into the list of masks, and elements such as costume changed to suit the society the play was directed at. Performance features of the performances were directed straight to the people...
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The amount of credit the audience gave the actors, determined the energy of the charcters. For example, if a crowd cheered Arlecchinos antics on, he would play this up by continuing it for a longer period of time. Such was the improvising nature of commedia conventions. Many stock characters would directly address the audience, which would allow further interest to evolve in the people watching...
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Groucho The last few paragraphs of the story show that these characters experienced a great deal of change. They finally have a couple girls right in front of them, and one of them even says they look like bad characters (Greasy, 11)...	2 / 363
The Brothers Karamazov Like they really know the characters. The reason that Fyodor describes the characters so well is so the reader can understand them. There are so many love triangles that go on in this novel and so many evil deceptions that it may become hard to follow and may get to be confusing...	3 / 576
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whO They at least never get off the island by the end of the episodes. This means that all of the episodes can be watched in no particular order and the events will still make sense because it's just the action in the middle of the show that changes from episode to episode...	2 / 541
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How have sitcoms changed over time? The characters usually have a lot more to say and humour comes just from the dialogue instead of actions. However, in Friends, a couple of the characters are actually portrayed as being very childlike and the humour is much more slapstick and easy to understand because of this...	3 / 569