The Snape debate

[Jen Reese]

> > CW:
> > > 1.Severus Snape – general character studies
> > > 2.Young Snape & MWPP
> > > 3.Who is Snape working for?
> > > 4.Snape & love
> > > 5.Vampire/bat/animagus!Snape 
> > > 6. Snape + Harry 
> > > 7. Snape + teaching style
> > > 8. Snape as a literary construct/character
> > 
> > Jen: Could 1 & 8 go together? Maybe we could call number 
3 'Snape's 
> > loyalty'?

 
> Anne:
> The two are actually quite different. Category 1 is for examining 
his
> character from within the story -- e.g. is he emotional, evil, 
nasty,
> poetic, prejudiced?  Category 8 is more for literary criticism --
> what's his function in the narrative? Is he a Byronic hero?  Things
> like that, looking from without.


Jen: I didn't include my explanation for putting both those two 
together. First, I like reading about the character from both sides 
of the story at once, just as I still like the idea of not 
separating out the pro- and anti- posts (but accept being outvoted). 

I'm finding from doing Characterization that the character studies 
for the most part are coded to the individual character names 
instead of landing in the actual 'characterization' category. Some 
of the analysis from outside the story has ended up in 'originality 
and stereotypes' or other subs within the Characterization section, 
but they are all still coded to the character name as well. So by 
default the characters are being analyzed from both sides of the 
story within each of the individual categories. I just don't see why 
Snape should get his characterization sections separated if no one 
else does, as "he is neither special, nor important" in my book. ;)


Jen, FWIW