Character is a term used to describe the players active in any form of art. A character can range from an animal to a person and everything in between. In beauty and the beast, the candle is even a character.
In Hamlet, characters are introduced when they are given lines; for example, Benardo, the first main character introduced, simply is called his name and then he says his lines. Character development in hamlet follows the same pattern where there is no description of a character and the only information you gather about them you have to gather from what people say about that character or how that character speaks to others. In Pride and Prejudice however, characters are introduced with many physical or emotional qualities because there is a narrator to explain their character outright. The narrator, who is also a character, allows the reader to get into the minds of the other characters in the novel where as in many of Shakespeare plays, there are no narrators in the same sense and so everything the audience knows about characters in Shakespeare plays come from how others speak about them and how they speaks about others.
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