Minor Characters Are Equally Important as Major Characters

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The success of a novel greatly depends on the characters and the story of the novel. For a reader to be captivated or engrossed in a novel, major and minor characters should have different involvements and a contrast of personalities that makes them unique, which brings out the major characters into the spotlight. It is important to have minor characters with distinctive and contradicting personalities which explore different traits like betrayal, loyalty and corruption through major characters as this affects the reader’s opinion about the major characters. Minor characters fill brief parts in the story, they make the major characters more meaningful and put them in the spotlight, they influence the story and the characters’ choices and they set a mood in the story through their own eccentricity that they only have, thus they are equally important. Minor characters are comparatively important to major characters as they make the major characters more concise and meaningful. They explore different factors like betrayal of the major characters and make the readers recognise their notoriety for example when they use the poor intellect of the animals and use it against them. Especially when the pigs walked on “two legs” after they said “four legs good and two legs bad”. When they change the sixth commandment “all animals are equal” and later on treat the others like “some animals are more equal”. These are dire examples of betrayal against the minor characters which portray the main characters into the spotlight. For instance “Animal Farm” wouldn’t be a “farm” without the different variety of personalities and impacts of the minor characters in the story. On the contrary major characters would have more influence on the story than minor characters because without them the story wouldn’t be a story. They are the ones who bind the characters, the novel and the
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