Open AccessHow Tragic Flaws Resonate at Scale: Just Ask Shakespeare
Author(s) -
DAVIS MEGAN
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ethnographic praxis in industry conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1559-8918
pISSN - 1559-890X
DOI - 10.1111/epic.12031
Subject(s) - persona , character (mathematics) , storytelling , hamlet (protein complex) , scale (ratio) , drama , ask price , tragedy (event) , character development , aesthetics , sociology , literature , art , humanities , narrative , cartography , geography , mathematics , geometry , economy , economics
What does Hamlet, Daenerys Targaryen and Persona development have in common? As an actress I had an in‐depth understanding of character development but struggled with creating insights from personas. I embarked on a quest to find out why. I interviewed one of the greatest authority's on Shakespeare, John Bell, AO, OBE FRSN about The Bard's greatest gift to storytelling, the invention of personality and characters. I share the realization that came next, how an individual character's tragic flaw can resonate at scale.