Uncertain Behavioural Adaptations

UNCERTAIN BEHAVIOURAL ADAPTATIONS

Lakshay Raja

The effects of a rigid character development in any fiction are immensely impactful on viewers, primarily for the fact that the concrete personality traits associated with a character leaves a far wider margin for the audience to judge the person in the true sense. Amongst the other tools used to disclose a scene, such as the familiarity with the location, situation or environment, it is astonishing to realise the impact of such rigidity in characters that makes a situation once absolutely unknown, look agreeable enough for the story to immediately proceed.

Any form of story telling is restricted with a time frame, leaving a slight margin for the characters to deviate from the traits assigned. Any major deviation, consequently, demands an explanation, as often seen in  thrillers, where say, an otherwise seemingly rational-minded character necessarily needs to explain his irrational or psychopathic action — for instance, a murder — before the story could end. The need to offer a familiarity with the characters in a limited time thus comes at the price of the characters being bound under their developed traits. 

The inability of a person in actuality to adapt to a rigid personality, as often dreamt of after watching a movie or observing its character(s) is for the obvious fact that the life is lived through a dynamic and unprepared environment, unlike the characters, who, for instance, once being introduced are unaffected by the adaptive behaviours of the others around, in terms of the expressions, tone, pronunciation or walk, if not demanded by the story. However insignificant such factors look, they explain the power that an environment holds in breaking the barriers of one’s rigidity. 

The impact of mass media and the concreteness in characters that it offers has exceeded to an extent to ironically eliminate the probability of much rigid personalities existing in actuality, —as it seems — with exceedingly influenced, impacted and confused young minds often recognising themselves with an uncertainty; no wonder the ambivert exceeds as a dominant trait. Behavioural adaptations in youth probably have never before been dynamic to an extent that a  merely relatable situation of someone on social media seemingly becomes the base of one’s introspection. 

The impact of being recognised with a certainty by the ones around you on the other hand is just as it is on the audience - pleasant, yet powerful; however the personality then be, submissive or overpowering, for it is these certain traits — flashing in the moments shared with the other people — that in true sense define you. What are you being recognised as lately? Is that you?