/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14964353]

I'm starting to think that genre fiction and overall in storytelling characters aren't and should't be realistic, but they follow archetypes to be interesting.

Like cliches, they can be generic, like villains who follow basic archetypes.

But I don't see the point of removing such concepts.
Most of the people IRL are boring, lame, simple, they're not this deep philosophical realistic human with ultra deepness.
Most people IRL are boring npcs.

That's why I assume archetypes, even if they're not realistic are more interesting than making a realistic person.

This is something I see on literary fiction, they try to make realistic characters, but their characters are just not remarkable and are boring as fuck, and shallow.
There's an irony here, that not realistic characters feel more real than real life people.

Most of shakespeare characters are also archetypes, but they are just 5-6 or more archetypes inside the same character.