Analysis of characterization

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Analysis of characterization of Blackmail

• perspective
  • Positive description and side description
    • positive description
      • portrait description
        • “handsome”“high- cheekboned features set in their most imperious mold”(para. 97)
        • "piggy" (para.3) "the obease body"(para. 7)
      • language description
        • personal language
          • speaks the Queen's England
          • speaks eye dialect
            • "No, ma'am"(para.7) "You two was in the hit-'n-run"(para.14)
        • dialogue
      • demeanor description
        • Her own tension was not lessened by the knowledge that...(para. 2）
        • He returned, apparently satisfied.(para.12)
        • The Duke licked his lips.(para. 41)
      • description of movement
        • wrinkle her nose distaste(para23); interrupted(para35); cut him off(para 97)
        • The house detective's piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically...(para.4)
        • The Duke cautioned.(para. 37)
      • psychological portrayals
        • It was essential, she knew, taht her thinking remain calm and reasoned.(para. 75)
    • side description
      • comparison and foil
        • Comparison of the dominant argument of the Duchess with detective and the timidnesss of the Duke
      • environmantal description
        • ...the spacious, well-appointed room...(para.4)
  • narrative perspective
    • omniscient perspective
      • As if the question from the Duchess had been a signal, the haouse detective's manner changed.(para. 10)
• Details and omissions
  • details
    • The detective Ogilvie and the Duchess
  • omissions
    • The Duke
• Flat character and round character
  • flat character
    • The Duke: cowardly, dull
  • round character
    • The Duchess: beautiful, educated, wealthy, smart, arrogant, disrespectful, hypocritical
    • Ogilvie: fat, greasy, coarse, vulgar, uneducated, unscrupulous, ill-mannered
• PS: blue for the Duchess; red for the detective; green for the Duke