Good short tutorial on character-driven fiction

[Kyffhausen]

http://www.simegen.com/school/beginners/WORKCharacterDrivenPlot.html

shows the difference between plot-driven and character-driven fiction, a concept with which I was not previously able to understand fully. The difference is whether the protagonist reacts to the actions around him, or puts those actions into motion. (This is probably why I never really cared for ordinary disaster movies, or even War of the Worlds with its deus ex machina ending; the aliens all die from a disease.)

Hamlet would therefore appear to be plot driven because the protagonist merely reacts to the events that the antagonist (King Claudius) has put into motion. Macbeth would seem to be more character-driven because the (evil) protagonist sets the chain of events into motion himself by murdering King Duncan.

[Selena Thomason]

Thanks for the link.
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