Character Profile

Lesson-18/9/2014

Character Profile

I believe that there is far more to Judd's character than what may outwardly appear to the audience or any actor that may be approaching the character of Judd earlier on. Judd's character has experienced a lot through the story of "Noughts & Crosses". I believe that his experiences have had an effect on his perception of the world that may be a little bit greater than what would have perhaps expected of any other person. 

Judd's character seems to have been intensified in all his choices and actions. I believe that this is due to the fact that  the society he lives in has pushed and ravaged his mind by all its cruelties, mistreatment's and overall unfairness towards him simply because of the colour of his skin. I have analyzed the entire play and I have personally determined that every single character has been developed and shaped to their personality at the actual beginning of the play because of the society they exist in and by the end have developed into the fully developed characters they are at the end of the play because of the experiences they had been through, and that in itself is strongly influenced by the society. 

I view Judd as being someone who is easily misunderstood and is a character that can be potentially approached by an actor that could develop into a character that does not have much depth or many layers to him. Personally I believe that Judd is a character that looks outwardly cruel and filled with intense rage, but in actual a fact, Judd is a character that does not have any personal hatred towards noughts or towards any of their culture, but only to the society and idealism's that have placed them above crosses. The overall goal of the character of Judd and all of his choices and decisions are to completely destroy and rebuild the society it self. The only problem with Judd's approach to his goals are that the elements he was using to solve the problem were the same elements that created them in the first place. This may even add a twinge of pity or even tragedy to the character of Judd, as the audience know that he is fighting a war in such a way that he can never actually win it.

From my own perception of Judd's character as an actor, I have come to the conclusion that there are two main ways to approach Judd's character. The first is you can portray him as someone who has been so deeply ravaged by his society, that he has become loud and filled with rage and violent towards everything that has to do with the society he has so come to hate. Another approach is portraying him as someone who is more spiteful and venomous towards everything around him, and who is not necessarily prone to loud outbursts, but as someone who is cold and clearly harbors a feeling of bitterness. Both approaches are effective towards conveying an effect or message to the audience, however I do personally feel as an actor that the second approach would take more skill and development as an actor.