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ON CHARACTERIZATION

 Caricature

Definition: exaggerate or distort one or more dominant features or personality traits.

Literary Example: Garfield: Many comics tend to consist of many caricature like examples in order to make the story funny. One example, Garfield, is a classic comic that talks about a cat who has human characteristics. Garfield is very selfish and greedy, and the author made him fat, so it could depict the character clear. His fat is exagerated showing that he is lazy and greedy.

Cinematic Example Family Guy: A very popular show, Family Guy, describes many examples of Caricature. Each family member in the Griffins have personality traits that are very exaggerated. For example, Peter, the father of the family, is very fat and many episodes show his exaggereated fatness. Also, people who are fat tend to be dumb in many of the stereotypes in our society. So Peter is characterized as a dumb fat guy which makes the show really funny.

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