Romesh Gunesekeras Ranvali: A Refutation of Conventional Characterizat

Romesh Gunesekeras Ranvali A Refutation of constituted CharacterizationRanvali serves as a personal reminder. It conveys trouble and regret with the narrators realisation only years after her father had died that she had been mistaken about certain(prenominal) aspects of him and that after this realization, she was unable to try to improve their relationship because he was no longer alive. The typeization of her father is essential in carrying across this sadness and regret because his character - the person of the father, to be contrasted with the qualities of the father, is the preconditions for the narrators flashbacks. The objective of this paper is to refute the conventional argument that the functional component of a character makes it lower-ranking in brilliance in a narrative and hence, show Ranvali to be a character-centred narrative. The stand that this paper takes, therefore, is that the functional role of the narrators father makes his character an integral part of the narrative, such that Ranvali is a character-centred narrative.Before embarking on the epitome of Ranvali, it is necessary to introduce three theories surrounding the notion of character in narratives. According to Aristotles theory of character, a distinction can be do between an agent - a person who performs actions and is necessary, and, a character - something that is added afterwards and in fact, not even essential to successful tragedy . . . Added afterwards . . . if at all (qtd. in Chatman 109). In Ranvali, the narrators father is an agent because of his importance to the story, which will be elaborated upon later. However, he will be everlastingly referred to as a character in this analysis so as to be consistent with the terminology throughou... ...ves. By superimposing Todorovs theory of character, the second consequence - this secondary importance of characters in narratives implies that such narratives are not character-centred, was made. The depression arg ument has already been refuted in the previous section where the functional role of the father is shown to cause him to be of primary importance in Ranvali. As for the second argument, it has been refuted along with the refutation of the first argument, as well as, the bliss of both of Todorovs criteria. The conclusion, therefore, is that Ranvali is a character-centred narrative, where the deceased father is a primary character. whole caboodle CitedChatman, Seymour, Existents Story and Discourse Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca Cornell UP, 1978. 108-114. Gunesekera, Romesh. Ranvali. spadefish Moon. London Granta, 199289-102.