Robyn's characterization

The writer exposes Robyn's characterization using different strategies:

• He presents Robyn in contrast/opposition to Vic (male character)

• her name is Robyn, it reminds  Robyn Hood (a man and an idealist), her surname is Penrose,it reminds a female character interested in what you do with a pen

• He supplies information about her way of thinking:

• She doesn’t believe in the concept of character: a bourgeois myth createD to reinforce the ideology of capitalism.

• In the eighteenth century =  the rise of the novel coincided with the rise of capitalism

• In the nineteenth century = the triumph of the novel coincided with the triumph of capitalism

• In the twentieth century = the deconstruction of the classic novel coincided with the terminal crisis of capitalism

• The  novelist is a capitalist of the imagination.

• The novel was the first mass-produced cultural artefact.

• Her way of thinking was influenced by writers.she has rea

• She has a personal position about power, sex family, science etc because there is no self identity but there is only a subject position in an infinite web of discourses.

• She is in line with J. Derrida: there is nothing outside the text because there is only production and we produce our selves in language.

• Robyn's philosophy: you are what  speaks you: it seems inhuman but in practice all this doesn't seem to affect her behaviour because she seems to have ordinary human feelings etc.

• She belongs to a different social species, from Vic Wilcox

• The writer describes Robyn's actions.