Many Shakespearian tragedies are about conflicting family loyalties or a character seeking to punish others for the wrongful death of a loved one.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Television screens show Tim Burtons strange cartoon about a character called Stainboy. Detailed drawings show how he created the characters in his films.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Today,a character on the American television series, The Simpsons, says it another way.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

For example,the show "Adventures of Little Noodle" is about a character made of pasta who goes on an exploration of the food store she lives in with her family.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

Mowgli,from a character in "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

The Inuit storyteller recalls a time when he told an ancient story about Kiviuq, a character in Inuit legend.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

"I have never felt so much responsibility with a character as I have with The Lovely Bones,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

In one,a character from Dostoevsky's The Demons is raising a gun to his temple.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

She says it's no easy feat. "You have to kind of deliver so much of the story through your own written texts so it's difficult in that way because you have to get a character and a point across in 140 characters or less."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

This character fights against the forces of nature to try to realize his dream of building a performance center in Iquitos,Peru.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

The main character in "The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman is a failing English language newspaper published in Rome,Italy.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

The princess had more power, influence and force of character than anyone who had ever before been interested in such a case.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

"The main character,Buck, he gets abducted and they send him off to the Yukon in a train.

VOA: special.2010.12.02

And I think as a group there's great character and we think that's one of our strengths."

VOA: special.2010.06.09