Examples of Flat Characters in Literature In many situations such as the example of Newman from Seinfeld and the servants in Romeo and Juliet, the flat characters often bring comedy to the piece as well as a break from the constant action and drama. In the text, flat characters add balance to the piece. Finch.The Function of Flat Characters in Literatureįlat characters function in the sense that they support the main characters. If it was any other man, it’d be different. It’s a sin and I’m not about to have it on my head. “To my way of thinkin’, Mr Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great favour an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight – to me, that’s a sin. In defense of Boo over the killing of Bob Ewell, Heck Tate said: Ewell keeps on following Atticus, Judge Taylor, and Helen Robinson – even after the case is finished – and goes to the extent that he almost kills the Finch kids. Being convinced that Mayella may have been guilty of committing a crime, Ewell is bent on making sure that someone else gets the punishment. Example #4: To Kill a Mocking Bird (By Harper Lee)īob Ewell is a malicious antagonist in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird. He separated his “evil-self” and gave him a separate identity, thus inventing his own antagonist who, as a result, brings his downfall.
Well-known as a respectable Victorian gentleman, Jekyll could never have fulfilled his evil desires. Hyde is the manifestation of the evil that existed in the honorable Dr.
In other words, every man’s antagonist exists within himself.
He means that a human soul is a mixture of evil and good. Jekyll creates Hyde by a series of scientific experiments in order to prove his statement: Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson explores the theme of doppelganger in which Hyde is not only an evil double of the honorable Dr.
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