Characterization of Carrie Mathison in Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon’s The Homeland TV Series (Season One)

Abstract

Carrie Mathison’s powerful role in Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon’s Homeland TV series has evoked a great literary interest in the genre of Crime Drama. Carrie’s ‘omnipresent’ and ‘omniscient’ role in the TV series has indeed been instrumental in ‘Characterization’ in Homeland American television series does play a pivotal role in determining the success of the plot?  Through the ‘Metamorphosis’ effect (the change in individual characters), Gansa and Howard the creators of the television series have evidently evoked mixed feelings between various characters and juxtaposed their roles at various instances.