dramatic character

C5059
concept

A dramatic character is a fictional persona in a narrative work whose desires, conflicts, and actions drive the emotional and thematic development of the story.

All labels observed (15)

Label Occurrences
dramatic character canonical 202
tragic heroine 32
romantic hero 14

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: dramatic character
Generated description
A dramatic character is a fictional persona in a narrative work whose desires, conflicts, and actions drive the emotional and thematic development of the story.

Instances (286)

Instance Via concept surface
Virgilia
Peter Dramatic character
Egeus
Charmian
Soothsayer
surface form: Soothsayer (Antony and Cleopatra)
Thyreus
Alexas
Jerry
surface form: Jerry (The Zoo Story)
Eros
Nerissa
Katherina
Bianca Dramatic character
Baptista
Tranio
Princess of France
Franklin D. Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello
Miranda (character in Shakespeare's The Tempest)
surface form: Miranda
Panthea
Captain Frederick Wentworth romantic hero
Manoa
Chorus of Danites dramatic character group
Chorus of citizens of Pherae dramatic character group
Sahiban tragic heroine
Straton
Khlestakov
Callimaco
Fleance character in Macbeth
Sibyl Vane tragic heroine
Konstantin Treplev
Ivan Dmitrich Gromov Chekhov character
Reilly
Dr. Astrov
Telegin
Earl Osmond
Sonya
Simmias of Thebes Platonic character
Lo Xiaohu romantic hero
Nina Zarechnaya Chekhov character
Olga Prozorova
Jagat Singh romantic hero
Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova tragic heroine
Yank
Puntila
Ludovico Marsili
Count Egmont
Arkas
Antonio Montecatino
Princess Leonore d’Este
Katerina Lvovna Izmailova tragic heroine
the Duchess tragic heroine