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Question 4.) Although literary critics have tended to praise the unique and litereray characterization many authors have employed the sterotype characters successfully. Select a novel or play and analyze how a conventional or stereotype character function to achieve the authors purposes.

In current times, it is evident that a writer will use characters that stick out from the norm in some way. They may have a stereotypical background, but the character's story has some type of content that will set them apart from the rest. Some of these unique characteristics may be a superhuman ability such as telekinesis, a family problem such as drug addicts, or a social problem such as anxiety. These types of characters have been glorified time after time.
In contrast, there are characters like Pip from Great Expectations that have that typified type of lifestyle. As a matter of fact, Pip is the epitome of a typified low-class child. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens makes a bold......

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