How to Craft a Corruption Arc: A Case Study of Walter White
The corruption arc is the easiest to spot of all the negative character arcs. You know this one. It’s the good person gone bad story, where a character begins on the morally “good” side of the tracks, and they understand right and wrong, but more than that, they believe in doing what’s right.
How To Construct A Character Arc Your Readers Will Love
If you looked at the previous posts on story structure you can probably tell much of that content talked about how what happened at those major turning points in the story challenged the protagonist to change internally.
This is because PLOT/STRUCTURE and CHARACTER are intimately linked. You can’t have one without the other. So the structure isn’t a bunch of arbitrary plot points. The sequence of events has a specific mission: to affect an inner change within the character, their world, or both.
We refer to this internal change as a character arc. Here’s what you need to know to craft a character arc your readers will love!