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Do our lives tell a story? | Sophie Fiennes, David Hare, Janne Teller

Philosophy For Our Times

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The Unpredictability of Characters

To have complete unpredictability in a character is very disturbing and very hard to follow yes but that's two very different things. If you look at most you can say shiang or writing their characters often do change a bit and do things that are illogical if you were going into a deeper psychological analysis of them they fit the plot structure. That's what makes the story boring from a philosophical point of view because no human beings would act like this, he says.

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