Question

Class intro to theatre .

What kinds of stock characters do we find in modern theatre, movies, or television (for instance, in the spy action/thriller, the soap opera, and the detective story)?

Answer 1

Stock character means, a fictional character in plays, movies, series who are mostly seen as the one without moral, greedy, suspicious person.

In modern theatre, the kind of stock characters we see are, the one who plays the role of a ' Ideal boyfriend or girlfriend', the one with ' dark sense of humor', the ' normal guy without supernatural powers', 'a mother who's too emotional or too rude', a 'friend in need', ' rich guy involved in crime'.

For example, the suspicious lady with pigeons in Home Alone movie, the famous character of Professor Snape in Harry Potter, The genius Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, The mother in law from Everybody hates Raymond!!