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character arc

noun

Etymology

Compound of character + arc.

Definitions

  1. The transformation or inner journey of a character over the course of a story.

    • The transformation of William Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet from a young scholarly prince full of promise into a melancholic brooder after his father's death is an example of a character arc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for character arc. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA