Character in Imad Al Deen Khaleel’s Play The CaptivesAnalytic Study

Abstract

The Muslawi writer, Dr. Imad Al Deen Khaleel’s poetry, professor of Islamic History at the College of Arts, Mosul University, is being examined in this study as his plays, in particular The Captives, have coherent artistic techniques expressing Islamic vision. They also present various and contrasted human models in their experiences through psychological conflict holding intellectual, spiritual and emotional dimensions. Dialogue among these various psychological models that disbelieve and faith could attract is an image for the twentieth century. The study is concerned with the play characters through analyzing texts and explaining their objective and artistic dimensions in addition to revealing significance. The study consists of an introduction and two sections where concept of drama character is reviewed in the introduction. Section one deals with patterns of drama character through protagonist, growing character, fixed character and symbolic character. Section two deals with dimensions of drama character through external, intellectual, psychological and social dimensions.