Hypostasis (literature)

This scene so impressed Jorge Luis Borges that he devoted one of his most famous essays to it: Partial Enchantments in the Quixote.

'"[1] In Disney's 1977 animated movie, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger bounces himself to the top of a tree and is then afraid to climb down.

Tigger, surrounded by the words of the story on the page around him, looks directly into the camera and says, "Say, who are you?"

Cartoonist Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes bridges into hypostasis in 1992 when Calvin, a cartoon,[2] draws a cartoon of himself and then criticizes his own lack of ability to draw.

A notable excursion into hypostasis is featured in Tom Stoppard's screenplay for the 1990 movie, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in which two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet wrestle with the growing realization that they are undifferentiated minor characters in a work of fiction.