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APEist
02-13-2008, 10:58 PM
Can anyone name any delusional authors or characters from literature? I'm creating a name for a new character for a short story and was having a hard time thinking of anything.

A few characters from Macbeth keep popping into my head but they wouldn't work for my setting. I can't seem to think of anything else though.

Bakiryu
02-13-2008, 11:09 PM
Jonathan Strange. (He sorts of starts having delusions about, um, pinneapples)

byquist
02-14-2008, 12:24 AM
Nicholai Stavrogin in Dost's The Possessed is a rare bird.

johann cruyff
02-14-2008, 04:21 AM
Well,I guess looking at a mirror and seeing a wolf smirking at you isn't exactly what you'd call normal either(Harry Heller)...

Ryduce
02-14-2008, 12:31 PM
Gatsby is perhaps one of the more deluded characters in all of literature.

Kafka's Crow
02-15-2008, 09:08 AM
Emma Bovary, Raskolnikov, Macbeth, Billy Loman... Almost all tragic characters have to go through their delusions in order to reach the truth and acquire their tragic stature.

JBI
02-15-2008, 12:19 PM
Oedipus Tyrannus?

islandclimber
02-15-2008, 04:57 PM
everyone in Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading"

Veva
02-16-2008, 06:22 AM
It was Quentin {the brother of Caddie} out of The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner :idea:

capek
02-18-2008, 03:37 AM
Horselover Fat! :D