Importance of Personification

An interesting element of the literature: personification.- Within literature there are endless elements that can enrich a text, make it more complex and also embellish it with special forms of writing. One of these is impersonation, also known as prosopopoeia, an element that is easy to use and adds style to a person's writing.

Personification, as the word says, means applying to it characteristics typical of human being to objects, animals or even elements of the nature. This can be from actions, such as "the light that falls asleep" or also from characteristics, adjectives or qualifications that belong to the human world and are transmitted by the stylistic fact to animal beings, inanimate objects, etc., for example if we say "a thoughtful night" or "a night fearful».

These forms of writing called personification are together a type of metaphors because it is clear that none of them is possible, but rather the literary resource is used to describe in a richer way a reality or situation.

Impersonation as part of theater or dramatic activities

When we use the term impersonation in the context of dramatic activities such as theatrical performance, it can have the same meaning. meaning than the case of literature, but it can also refer to the interpreter's act of personifying, transforming himself into another being that is not really.

The personification can be when an actor or actress puts himself in the role of, for example, a historical figure or any other type of character that is not himself. This type of action is clearly the basis of any performance since in most cases the actors and actresses they must look for resources to become another being, someone other than themselves, another person, and from there develop their construction dramatic.

The importance of personification in art

As previously noted, the device or act of impersonating someone is relevant to both literature and the dramatic arts. The utility that is given to these techniques depends on each author, each artist, and for this reason we cannot speak of a single way of impersonating, both in writing, orally, or in acting.

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In any of the two cases, it supposes a sensitive work of creation that is incomparable and that cannot be copied by others as it has to do with the desires, capabilities and interests of the user resource.