Character development may refer to:
- Character arc, the change in characterization of a dynamic character, who changes over the course of a narrative.
- Character creation, especially for games
- Character advancement, increase in scores and other changes of a game character — for example, in role-playing video games
- Moral character, a term used in many educational systems to indicate a strategy for the maturation of individual students.
Famous quotes containing the words character and/or development:
“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“John B. Watson, the most influential child-rearing expert [of the 1920s], warned that doting mothers could retard the development of children,... Demonstrations of affection were therefore limited. “If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say goodnight. Shake hands with them in the morning.””
—Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century)