The Art of Inventing Characters

The Art of Inventing Characters By GEORGES POLTI

Author of The Thirty-six Dramatic Situations

(Translated by Lucile Ray)

Franklin, Ohio JAMES KNAPP REEVE 1922

This is the whole book, but it needs to be fixed, organized, and the chapters put under there links.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I SOME STRANGE OMISSIONS.

1 Feminine Types Yet Uncharacterized.

2 The Literature of Character.

3 What is Permissible?

CHAPTER II THE GREAT PREJUDICE.

CHAPTER III Nor CHARACTERS, BUT ATTITUDES.

CHAPTER IV THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS.

1 The Systems to be Harmonized.

2 The Systems Harmonized and Explained.

3 Of the Four Temperaments.

CHAPTER V THE LAW OF FOUR-CENTURY PERIODS.

CHAPTER VI THE Six DIRECTIONS OF ENERGY.

CHAPTER VII THE ART OF INVENTION.

1 Pythagoras; Philosophic Romanticism.

2 Various Numerical Groupings.

3 Discovering and Inventing.

CHAPTER VIII EPIC AND TRAGEDY.

CHAPTER IX THE TWELVE GODS OF ALL NATIONS.

CHAPTER X GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN BEINGS.

1 Plan of the Classification.

2 Classification:

VESTA: The Pious.
 * The Wise.
 * The Faithful.

JUNO: The Jealous.

The Vengeful and Just.

The Strict and Severe.

NEPTUNE : The Avaricious and Grasping.

The Despotic.

The Ambitious.

MINERVA: The Daring and Romantic.

Adventurers.

The Eloquent and Boastful.

VENUS: The Seductive and Seducing.

Courtesans.

The Vicious.

APOLLO: The Impassioned.

The Chimerical.

The Intellectual.

MERCURY: The Shrewd.

The Traitorous.

The Knavish.

JUPITER: The Arrogant and Insolent.

The Haughty and Dignified.

The Majestic and Protecting.

CERES: The Generous and Prodigal.

The Gay and Sensual.

The Vulgar and Practical.

VULCAN: The Earnest and Serious.

The Deluded and Discouraged.

The Unselfish and Devoted.

MARS: Murderers and Assassins.

The Violent and Rebellious.

The Bold and Fearless.

DIANA: The Tender and Sentimental.

The Weak.

The Pure.

3 The 369 Unpublished Characters and their 164,980 Varieties.

CHAPTER XI A TREATISE ON THE PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMAN SOUL.

1 The Complete Soul.

2 From Without Inward; Politics and Psychology; Theophrastus.

3 St. Bernard, St. Benoit and Seneca.

CHAPTER XII PERSPECTIVE m MATTERS OP PSYCHOLOGY

1 Comparative Perspective.

2 The Characters of Moliere, Shakespeare, Plautus, Balzac, etc.

3 Vacancies to be Filled.

CONCLUSION.