Character (Elizabeth vs. Hamlet)

Characters, just like a plot, are extremely important and essential to any work. Jane Austen, the author of Pride and Prejudice, uses characters as a way to depict the people's views in society. For example, Elizabeth Bennet's conflict   with society is made visible through the personality in which Austen gives her. However, unlike Hamlet's Hamlet, Elizabeth does not state any soliloquies, which shows the difference between a drama and a fiction. In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Hamlet's internal conflict dealing with the death of his father presents Hamlet's individual struggle, contradicting to Elizabeth Bennet's external conflict. Ultimately, an author can bestow the message or story of any work on a character at the beginning of a piece and still have it be just as prominent in the end. Thus, character's carry on the plot.