Due to the fact that "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is a collection of wizard folktales, I will only choose one story, which is "The Tale of the Three Brothers," which is most recognizable since it was mentioned in the last Harry Potter story. The main characters in the short story, as the name suggests, are the three brothers. Their names are not given, so I'll simply refer to them as Old, Middle, and Young brother. Their role in the book is to serve for teaching the moral of the story, which is that Death can never be overcome, you just have to acknowledge that and treat it as simply another step in life. First of all, it is quite easy to tell their personalities because the story says them, ". . . the oldest brother, who was a combatitive man . . . the second brother, who was an arrogant man . . . The youngest brother was the humblest and also the wisest of the brothers . . ."(88-89). So the Old brother was combatitive and liked to get into fights, the Middle brother was arrogant and beleived to be very powerful, and then Young brother was wise and humble and knew the best choices to pick. The next important character in the story is the personification of Death, who is the antagonist. He is there to symbolize death of course and plays a major part in the story. In the book, the author states, "But Death was cunning" (88), and overall is portrayed as a malicious being. Finally, I believe every person here, except the Young brother is static, while he is a tiny bit dynamic. The two brothers die and stay the same as they were before, combatative and arrogant, while Death simply is still Death and takes the souls of people. Though the Young brother in the end departs with Death "as equals" and leaves this world, showing how he changed to understand that he could not run away from Death forever.
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