I had a serious crush on John Thronton, the main male character from Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. If I had had the choice to go an live in the 19th century as his wife I would have done it. Sod the consequences.
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I had a serious crush on John Thronton, the main male character from Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. If I had had the choice to go an live in the 19th century as his wife I would have done it. Sod the consequences.
:lol: Great choice, and I love your location....Gabriel Oak must be another good contender, good stolid, stable character, unlike Troy, but oh Terence Stamp in the film was mesmerising, (swoon), no wonder she fell for him :D. I like Wentworth too, another worthy, constant love. I have a really soft spot for Jude Fawley, poor bloke, and I'm falling for Arthur Clennam from Little Dorrit, as I'm watching the TV series, although I haven't finished the book yet. He's a quiet, honourable man, played beautifully by Matthew Macfadyen. Perhaps I'm getting the vibes from the actor though, as I think he's lovely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guinivere
Mr.Rochester in JANE EYRE
and i wish i had a father like Jean Valjean in LES' MISERABLES
Yes it is a tough choice. I really love Gabriel Oak, the whole caring, nice character. But when I read North & South for the first time it just blew me away. I hadn't yet read a classical novel from the 19th century where the agonies of unreciprocated love, from the male side, had been so wondefully depicted.Quote:
Originally Posted by wessexgirl
And I forgot poor Wentworth, or sould I say, the dashing Captain Wentworth. He's another strong contender. :)
I haven't read Little Dorrit yet. I never really took to Dickens (and I know it's blasphemy). Maybe I'll give it a go.
Quite coincidentally here Guinevere, I'm just watching Camelot on tv. Now there are 2 more literary characters to fall for, Arthur and Lancelot. I think overall though I would go for Arthur, lovely as Lancelot, (or Franco Nero) is. The overriding goodness of both, with Guinevere torn between them is heartbreaking, but I have to go with Arthur, especially in the manly form of Richard Harris :lol:.
I fell in love with a character in a novel that I started. I dropped that project.
Same! I love all the alcoholic/tortured men :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
John Proctor! Why?!Quote:
As contrary this is to every moral fiber in my being- John Proctor (The Crucible)
Heathcliff or Macbeth.
Oh- Japhy Ryder...no doubt about it.
Too late! I am afraid, he's already been spoken for! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
Nobody is going to bring up Yossarian?
Why does it go against my morals, or why is he my fictional love? hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by kelby_lake
It goes against my morals because he cheated on his wife
He's my fictional love because he's one of the most passionate characters I've ever read. The scene between him and Elizabeth when he's in custody of the court in the fourth act, and they're both begging for each other's forgiveness is so powerful, and again when he's in court giving the false confession, and he cannot do it for the sake of those who died in the name of truth. It's amazing.
I love that! :D I thought of him, too, but I think the 6 men that I listed are more than enough to pine away for right now. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Guinivere
Of course! ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by amalia1985
I can't honestly say I have fallen in love with any fictional character. Judging by the responses here, I suspect this is mostly a female thing. :p
I'm a man. I gave some serious thought to this. All I could come up with is my teenage self might have been taken with Lyra Belacqua from Phillip Pullman's trilogy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
But then I got to wondering - is it a a gender attitude thing or are loveable women written well into literature?
Well I always wanted to have Edgar Rice Burroughs kill off Jane and have Tarzan go to the woman who really deserved some happiness in her life--La of Opar featured in Return of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, and Tarzan the Invincible. She steals the scene in any chapter she appears in. Jane Porter was a pale imitation of a heroine compared to her. La could easily have had a novel written and centered around her if the times had been different. Often wondered if she was patterned after Haggard's She Who Must be Obeyed--Ayesha.
Very good choice! :):) I'll take Ray Smith. :):) Then maybe the four of us could hang out sometime.Quote:
Originally Posted by _Shannon_
Dag yo, I'll third Darcy and Sebastian, haha.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by kelby_lake
My mind went blank. Wow.
I think I have a sort of platonic crush on Anne Shirley if we really need to talk about some female characters too.
Awww, or can it be that no author could invent up a woman as an epitome of morality and virtuousness good enough for Virgil's liking? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I fourth Mr Darcy!
Rochester of Jane Eyre is also quite popular I see, but he is an absolute icon as a man...
Benedick of Much Ado about Nothing has also been mention. Lovely man! He would never marry... Men who are caught off-guard are so cute... (that's probably the charm of Rochester and Darcy as well)
D'Artagnan and Athos... I wouldn't know which one to choose... Athos is so lovely and sweet, but d'Artagnan is so surprising and manly... swoon :blush:
Although, I'm afraid I would have to choose Athos because I have the impression that by the end d'Artagnan had banned women out of his life forever...
Raimundo Silva of José Saramago's The Siege of Lisbon. He's also caught off-guard. An older man, never fallen in love suddely finds himself obcessed with a woman in his thoughts and has to recognise that he is for the first time in love. So sweet...
From movies, but oh well.
Sophie from Vanilla Sky
Ana Pascal from Stranger than Fiction
Sam from Garden State
Ha ha, I fell in love with d'Artagnan as well! And Lancelot - I used to read his adventures over and over again... Slightly more recently, I had a huge crush on Lawrence of Arabia (I know he's not a fictional character :p ), in his book and in the film... ah, Peter O'Toole...Quote:
Originally Posted by kiki1982
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Originally Posted by Kevets
Rather than poorly written female characters being the cause,
I reckon men choose with their eyes and admire the physical form.
women trust their imagination and look beyond this. They are therefore more successful at fantasizing about literary figures.
Mr Rochester is an interesting choice. Did you know that Jane Erye used to be on the school curriculum in China and millions of chinese girls were in love with him. A friend of mine from Shanghai even took Jane as her English name when she came to live in England.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoope
OK - three pages on from my original post I too must admit that, as a 13 year old, I fell for Mr Rochester's brooding presence - and the most wonderful way he proposed to Jane
"I ask you to pass through life at my side, to be my second self and best earthly companion"
Boromir from the Lord of the Rings (what a misunderstood man!)
Lord Peter Wimsey from Dorothy L. Sayers mystery series (wit, charm, and bookishness :D)
Odysseus from the Odyssey (ingenious man, AND played by Sean Bean :p)
I must admit to a fondness for Darcy, but maybe...just maybe...he isn't quite the love of my life :lol:
For me it also has to be Mr Darcy
Well Virgil, I don't know if I would call her fictional love of my life, haha..
but Tess from "Tess of the D'urbevilles" is pretty amazing.. the one letter she wrote Angel Clare is so sad and powerful and wonderful..
I thought we had a thread on this a while ago or perhaps it was another forum. But my ideal would be Honey West:
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Hannelore from questionable content
However I'll write about her as soon as she comes out, in a way I've been making some efforts of imagining.
It isn't easy, because, like actual people, characters are already there (here) in the world. I make characters, so it's a bit different. I'll never find the girls I write. And I try to write from girls that are around, that captivate me.
So, for instance, I've imagined the light (untouchable) artificial intelligence of a (space)ship's computer ...*
Now, I'm into some sort of plot in which the main character goes the story around this image and, in the end, he finds the girl in whom the a.i. was based, she (the real one) sleeping for ages (?) in a case.
So, I think I'll get there when I have actually met her. Until then, "this is all academic" ...
One of my dreams is to connect the already there characters I have with real girls, but I haven't reached this yet. ~
*Important to me to say that, in my "futurism", there's no laser weapons, no touchable holography, no teletransportation, no alien life-forms [ah, and no jump/warp or light-speed] ... It's all about conquering the Solar System and "history" of the Solar System conquest! Which is a dream I have! :)
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Does anyone hear know the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich. Wonderfully trashy and really entertaining books. I always think she should end up with Ranger. But I see why she fancies Morelli. At least he doesn't kill people.
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I thought we had a thread on this a while ago or perhaps it was another forum.
Ok I've done this more than once - "starting" a thread that already existed in the annals of Litnet. I think I'll give up.... :blush:
Ps I think the title for my thread suggests I'm more of a romantic than the author of the thread in which we now find ourselves!!
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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Oh how i agree with you!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nossa
dont forget our bargin from the earlier pages of this thread! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
Hes a given....Quote:
Rochester - Jane Eyre
you know what? i have to agree with this...there is something saucy about Benedick. :nod:Quote:
Benedick - "Much Ado About Nothing"
gonna jump on the bandwaggon and say Edward Cullen as well....oh the passion! Shame she lost sight of his character in the last book...
Who's that guy in Bridget Jones?
Mark Darcy? (aka Mr Darcy)
The fictional love of my life would have to be Gabriel from the Annette Curtis Klaus novel (not movie) Blood and Chocolate because he is so primal, yet sensitive and he is willing to wait for the woman he desires. He is patient and understanding and the perfect image of a macho man without the overdone ego or narcissism; just an overall bad boy with good guy qualities. Gabriel is a man with whom I would love to hop on a motorcycle with and traverse the country without a care.
Ahh! I love that marriage proposal! And I've not read the book! Oh dear what have you started?! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Cailin
Mr. Darcy of course is on my list. I love to watch the BBC version of P&P when I need to make everything right in the world. :D I am a hopeless romantic and he's just so yay he has to be on that list!
Among others...Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, Edmund Dantes from Count of Monte Cristo, a small crush on Professor Snape. Interestingly enough, tall, dark and handsome seem to fit into my real life crushes, especially seeing as it includes long hair too! :blush:
One character I really, really loved was Razumikhin from Crime and Punishment..Raskolnikov's best friend (right??), he was such a sweet man!
I would have thought you would have preferred Don Quixote. :D Or maybe Sancho Panza. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by grace86
Oh, of course I remember our bargain! How could I possibly forget? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
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Hes a given....
Yes, there definitely is something, isn't there? :nod: :DQuote:
you know what? i have to agree with this...there is something saucy about Benedick. :nod:
As for John Thorton, I have always had a fondness for him, but I can honestly say that any stronger "feelings" that I have had for him lately are due to the sight of Richard Armitage in the role that he plays to perfection. ;)
He heightens the character alright! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
I still think Thorn from Bitterbynde Saga. :nod: Of Course! I would have to be drawn to the king of the Faeries wouldnt I! :lol: