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Character Development In Fifth Business, And The Role Of Name Changes
Character development in Fifth Business, and the role of name changes Robertson Davies’s novel, the Fifth Business, is full of symbolism, magic, saints, miracles and myths. Its characters are rich and colourful. Just like in classic theatre plays, there are five main characters in the book, two female ones and three male characters: the Hero, the Villain and the so called “fifth business”, who helps the story move along. The book’s main character, Dunstable Ramsey, plays a similar role in people’s lives around him. It is interesting how the author develops the characters during the book. There is an important symbol that is connected to the changes in this development. All the three male characters have their names changed at one point, which then signals important changes in their lives, almost as if by changing their names they become new persons. This idea is also connected to the religious aspect of the book, because when somebody becomes a monk they change their names as a symbol to the fact that now their lives are about to change forever. If we look at the two female characters first, Mrs Dempster and Leola Cruikshank, we realize that their characters do not change. Mrs Dempster gets hit by a snowball with a stone packed into it right at the beginning of the book and becomes “simple”, as the people in Deptford say. She remains like that all through the book. Although this simpleness makes her very mysterious, the secret of that stays hidden to the end. Leola is also a simple, uncomplicated person. When she marries Boy Staunton, he actually tries very hard to change her but she cannot change, no matter how hard she tries. Actually that is what causes her to try to commit suicide at one point, and there is a hint in the book saying that her eventual death is not completely accidental, that she wanted to die exactly because she could never change or get used to the position her married life put... Please login to view comments from other users.
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