of course, exposition by the character him/herself. What especially makes a character remarkable is if these different views are not compatible - controversy always heightens interest. For example, when watching a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet the audience will always ask the question: is Hamlet's insanity genuine? Hamlet himself claims this antic disposition is feigned, his mother attributes his madness to overwhelming grief about his father's death and shock at her hasty remarriage and Polonius tells the King that he believes Hamlet is acting abnormally because of his love for Ophelia. These three different opinions again lead to controversy: is Hamlet pretending to be mad because he is planning to kill the King in a 'fit of insanity'? Is Gertrude's feeling that Hamlet's behaviour is linked to her remarriage connected to some complicity in the current husband's crime? Does Polonius merely express his opinion to the King because he wishes to obtain something as Ophelia is his daughter? The reason that a character is more interesting as one gets to know more about him/her is because the facts oft lead to questions and this uncertainty is more provocative than the concrete facts.
             A novelist/playwright can use uncertainty in a lot of other ways as this is what makes the reader really think about a character. One technique is to introduce a
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