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.
Jonathan Strange. (He sorts of starts having delusions about, um, pinneapples)
Shall these bones live?
Nicholai Stavrogin in Dost's The Possessed is a rare bird.
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)...
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
Miroslav Krleža
Gatsby is perhaps one of the more deluded characters in all of literature.
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.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Oedipus Tyrannus?
everyone in Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading"
It was Quentin {the brother of Caddie} out of The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
Stop asking where is God and keep asking where the hell is human!
Horselover Fat!
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