GCSE英语语言考试-角色定位

What is characterisation?

什么是角色定位？

Characterisation is the way writers create characters and make them believable. When writing about texts, it is easy to treat characters as real people. Try to remember that the author is creating characters using language.

角色定位是作家创造角色并使其可信的方式。在写文本时，很容易把人物当作真实的人。请记住，作者是在用语言创造人物。

Think about the set of characters in a text:

• What are the characters like? How do you know this?
  

• What do the characters say (dialogue)?

• What do the characters do?

• How are they described?

• How are they seen by other characters?

想一想文本中的一组人物。

• 这些人物是什么样的？你是怎么知道的？
  

• 人物都说些什么（对话）？

• 这些人物做了什么？

• 他们是如何被描述的？

• 其他人物是如何看待他们的？

Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet from Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice are widely recognised fictional characters

简-奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》中的达西先生和伊丽莎白-贝内特是被广泛认可的虚构人物。

Characterisation example

Character can be shown through the things characters do, what they say, what they look like, and what they own.

This extract from Charles Dickens’s Hard Times introduces Mr Gradgrind, the headmaster of a school.

What do we learn about this character from the writer’s choice of language?

角色定位实例

性格可以通过人物的行为、言语、长相和拥有的东西来表现。

查尔斯-狄更斯的《艰难岁月》中的这一节选介绍了学校的校长格拉德林德先生。

从作家的语言选择中，我们对这个人物有什么了解？

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the