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Explain how a playwright uses characters to affect the overall play and experience.

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Playwrights create characters that will directly impact the plot of the play by creating and resolving conflict. The conflicts the characters are involved in reveal key themes in the play. In addition, characters are used to have a direct effect on the audience by causing them to feel a certain way about them and the subject matter.

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