Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

simple (flat)
or 
complex (well-rounded)
. Simple characters 
are constructed round a single trait. Complex characters undergo change and growth, 
reveal various sides of their personalities. Hamlet is a complex character, as he is 
.brave and hesitant, sensitive and unyielding. Contradictory features within a character 
make it true-to-life and convincing. 
The main character is most relevant in a literary work, since it is through his fate 
that the message is conveyed. The minor characters are subordinate, they are generally 
introduced to reveal some aspects of the main character, or his relationship with 
people. 
Complete descriptions of absolutely all the actions, thoughts, feelings of the 
characters in fiction are impossible and unnecessary. The writer selects only those that 
have special meaning in relation to the message of the story. Moreover, a full and 
photographic description is often substituted by a detail. Depending on the value 
which details have, in fiction, one should distinguish between the so-called artistic 
details and particularities.
The 
artistic detail
is always suggestive. It therefore has a larger meaning than 
its surface meaning, as it implies a great deal more than is directly expressed by it. An 
artistic detail acquires expressive force and has both direct and indirect meaning. It is a 

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poetic representation of a whole scene. In this sense an artistic detail may be treated as 
a metonymic expression of the whole. An artistic detail, just as any micro-image, is 
stimulating to the imagination. 
A few artistic details may suggest a whole life-story. Thus, the “swollen” face, 
feet and hands with “fingers worked to the bone”, which Priestley mentions about Mrs. 
Cross (in 
Angel Pavement) 
tell us just as much of her hard life as a whole page of her 
life-story would. The sharpness of those artistic details stimulates the reader's 
imagination and creates the image of a woman exhausted by a life full of hardships. 
At the same time, an artistic detail contributes to individualization and 
verisimilitude. It creates the sense of reality, the sense of getting to know a concrete 
real individuality with its specific characteristics. An artistic detail is therefore both 
implicative and individualizing. 
In fiction, not all details are artistic details. There often occur details that cannot 
be treated as poetic representations-of the whole (such as the color of the eyes of a 
character, the time at which he left his home, etc.). They serve to add something new 
about a character, or place, or event. Such details are called