The phrase "a character was given" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where a character is assigned or provided in a narrative or context, such as in storytelling or game design.
Example: "In the role-playing game, a character was given special abilities to enhance gameplay."
Alternatives: "a character was assigned" or "a character was provided."
(In one of Roth's books, a character is given muttonchop whiskers, whose two halves are likened to the two halves of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy).
The fact that imitation soon turned to exaggeration and then to grotesquerie, as minstrel shows became insidiously jaunty arguments in support of slavery and eventually of Jim Crow (the term itself derives from a minstrel character), was given a further grim twist when aspiring Negro performers took to mimicking the whites who were caricaturing them.
The latest contention came after a key terrorist character was given the same name as a real-life Pakistani ambassador to the US.
"Because Jackie was a psychologist by training, each character was given a specific personality trait".
It produced a regime whose initially reformist character was given more precise form by a domestic power struggle and by the necessity of coming to terms with the British, who still occupied their Suez Canal base.
The character was given a pair of large yellow eyes, which allowed the character to emote.
The storyline was rewritten and the character was given a different gynaecological ailment that was treatable.
Gainey was initially credited as playing "bearded man" and then as "Mr. Friendly" throughout season two before the character was given a first name.
The producers and writers felt that, if Mulder's character was given a clean exit, the show could more easily focus on the characters of John Doggett and Monica Reyes in the following season.
The character was given a more modern haircut, and costume designer Judianna Makovsky opted to give Storm more black clothes, a color she only wore in the leather costume for previous films, to make her "tougher and sexier".
