Presentation of Arkady as One-Dimensional

... Characters in plays and novels are usually multi-dimensional. Discuss to what extent this is true of important characters you have studied and comment on the techniques of characterisation used by the author. Within the text Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons' Arkady's personality loses some of its dimension as Turgenev values his impact upon the plot over developing upon his character. As such, he becomes a particularly one-dimensional character. From the very beginning of the text, Turgenev spends less time building him up and he is largely a slightly blurry figurehead. While this blur lends itself rather well to Arkady's slightly bumbling and complacent mannerisms, we are nonetheless left with the impression that Arkady is more a tool within Turgenev's writing than a personality in his own right. Arkady is important within the text as it is only through interaction with him that the other significant characters eventually reach their end; he

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