Karkaroff as Stock/Type
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I saw Karkaroff as falling very firmly within a (now, thankfully, rather archaic) British literary tradition. He's a variation on a stock that was more popular in the first half of the twentieth century, the Oily and Disreputable Eastern European, given a slightly (but only very slightly) more modern edge by all of the Cold War/Biased Olympics Official stuff.
This stock character is often a hostile seducer ("ruiner") of well-born young women; sometimes he's a con man with fraudulent aristocratic credentials, hoping to marry wealth. I've also seen him written as a bigamist.
I'd just like to add that JKR really knows her classic detective fiction tropes. The Karkaroff character in 1930s Whodunnits is the Designated Red Herring-the one that even the readers are meant to recognize as such. He's the character that nobody trusts, but while he usually does turn out to be No Good in one way or another-he's a jewel thief, or a forger, or a bigamist, or an espionage agent, or a gold-digger, or on the lam for crimes committed elsewhere-he's never the real culprit. He is not the murderer. He usually disappears half-way through Act Three; at the denoument, the detective then reveals his secret and explains that he fled out of fear of exposure, or fear of repercussions deriving from his exposure.
прикольненько /interesting information to know, but i think my favorite char is unique and sooo lovable:))/
Цитаты:
I saw Karkaroff as falling very firmly within a (now, thankfully, rather archaic) British literary tradition. He's a variation on a stock that was more popular in the first half of the twentieth century, the Oily and Disreputable Eastern European, given a slightly (but only very slightly) more modern edge by all of the Cold War/Biased Olympics Official stuff.
This stock character is often a hostile seducer ("ruiner") of well-born young women; sometimes he's a con man with fraudulent aristocratic credentials, hoping to marry wealth. I've also seen him written as a bigamist.
I'd just like to add that JKR really knows her classic detective fiction tropes. The Karkaroff character in 1930s Whodunnits is the Designated Red Herring-the one that even the readers are meant to recognize as such. He's the character that nobody trusts, but while he usually does turn out to be No Good in one way or another-he's a jewel thief, or a forger, or a bigamist, or an espionage agent, or a gold-digger, or on the lam for crimes committed elsewhere-he's never the real culprit. He is not the murderer. He usually disappears half-way through Act Three; at the denoument, the detective then reveals his secret and explains that he fled out of fear of exposure, or fear of repercussions deriving from his exposure.
прикольненько /interesting information to know, but i think my favorite char is unique and sooo lovable:))/