Unforgettable Servant Character

[Ranoo]

Hello, :D
Do you member Wuthering Heights? It is told from servant point of view. In Wuthering Heights there is a double narration of the events ,given to us by Lockwood and to him by Ellen Dean ,the servant . In my opinion ,Ellen is one of the unforgettable servants .

What about you :cool: ?

What is the f /male servant character(s) in literature whom you think s/he is unforgettable ?

Is s/he a main or minor character?( ;) optional question ;) )

[Whifflingpin]

Miss Pross in "Tale of Two Cities." I got into trouble at school for arguing that she is the true heroine of the story. She is there, always, imperturbable and unflappable while all the other characters run round in hysterics. I haven't read "Tale of Two Cities" for forty years, but I could not forget Miss Pross.

[Pensive]

Whiffle, it is exactly my point. I have never taken Lucie Manette as a heroine. Miss Pross was a true heroine.

Yes I can remember Wuthering Heights. Other than Ellen Dean, I think that Dobby from HP series is an unforgettable servant character.

[bluevictim]

Who can forget Sancho Panza?

[Xamonas Chegwe]

What about Jeeves?

[Scheherazade]

Does Clara Peggotty from David Copperfield count (she was sort of a nanny)? I loved her so as a child.

[Kluna]

Who can forget Sancho Panza?


I agree with this :)

[Ranoo]

Thanks all for sharing ;)
I've just remembered that Jean (a main character ) and Kristine(a minor character) in Strindberg play" Miss Julie " are unfogetable servant charcters.

I wonder who are Jeeves and Sancho Panza ? :cool:I mean can you please tell us where we can read about them? :santasmil '

[Charles Darnay]

I'd have to say Planchet from The Three Musketeers

[beer good]

I wonder who are Jeeves and Sancho Panza ? I mean can you please tell us where we can read about them?

Jeeves is from PG Wodehouse's novels, Sancho Panza from Cervantes' "Don Quijote".

Wouldn't Sam (and Gríma) from Tolkien's "Lord Of the Rings" be given too?

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I just thought of another great servant, Sam Weller - from "The Pickwick Papers". 'E is truly han hentertaining hindividual.

[Charles Darnay]

definately!

[MikeK]

Smerdyakov from The Brothers Karamazov.

Not as faithful a servant as one might like, but unforgettable none-the-less.

[caspian]

I remember funny Savelytich from "The captain's daughter" by Pushkin

[mtpspur]

H. Rider Haggard's Hottentot servant to Allan Quaterman-- Hans--in several of the novels--most notably The Ivory Child (for reasons that will be apparant when read.)

[Apotropaic]

The king from The Little Prince. He's the only adult I truly understood in the book.

[Idril]

Wouldn't Sam (and Gríma) from Tolkien's "Lord Of the Rings" be given too?


Sam would get my vote as well. They don't come much more devoted and single minded than Sam.

[byquist]

Pissanio in Shakespeare's "Cymbeline"

[Bookworm Cris]

Sam Gamgee from LOTR is more a friend than a servant, but I choose him.

Other remarkable servant is Lee, from East of Eden. He says that a good servant is a very rare thing, and a good servant can "drive" his master, help him or cause him damage, and a good servant can have a comfortable life. But he turns out to be more than this. he becomes a very true friend of Samuel and Adam, and a father for the boys (Aron and Cal), and still remains a servant. Very good conversations between Lee and Samuel, they worth the entire book. Unforgettable!