How Does Androcles's Character Change Throughout The Novel

It is a character’s development in a story that allows the plot to unfold with their unfolding personality. In both the first and second passage, the main characters go through major changes that help to develop the plot. Whether they be growing in courage, affection, or awareness, it is the development of these characters that force the plot along. In passage one, Androcles begins his expedition, weary and tired; he is nothing more to the reader than an escaped slave. Therefore, when Androcles sees the thorn in the lion’s paw, he grows in both sympathy and courage. It was the sympathy that compelled him to extract the thorn from the tiger’s paw and the courage that allowed him to do so. It was this character development that created the rising action, furthering the plot. Androcles’ development accordingly allowed for the lion to make his own essential development.
Before the lion becomes acquainted with Androcles, it is described as a “great beast” and this “great beast...roared with pain,” (Aesop). This establishes his character as cruel and fearsome similar to that of a monster. After this monster gets the thorn pulled from his paw, he transforms into a large kitten who, “fawned over Androcles and showed, in every way that he knew, to whom he owned the relief…” (Aesop). Subsequently, this character development of the lion results in the climax of the story when Androcles is thrown into an arena to fight a lion ended up having the lion fawning over him for it was the same lion he rescued. Without this character development, the climax of the story would not have been