Originally Posted by Pensive
Hee hee - What is it about him exactly?
Hee hee - What is it about him exactly?
I have an unfortunate tendency to fall in love with the most unsavoury types... so probably Eugene Onegin from the eponymous novel, Stiva Oblonsky from 'Anna Karenina', or some other charming scoundrel of that sort...
On the other hand, Mr. Darcy from 'Pride and Prejudice', the cold and single-minded St John Rivers from 'Jane Eyre' and Sebastian Flyte from 'Brideshead Revisited' are all very sexy characters in very different ways.
And Jude from 'Jude the Obscure' was a lovable guy too.
I'll surely come up with more, as I'm always swooning over literary characters
Clare Abshire from The Time Traveler's Wife. The lengths he put that poor woman through just goes to show shes nothing less than a saint.
Interesting choice! A departure from the more obvious Rochester
I'll second Darcy and Sebastian. I like the bad/tortured ones, Brick in Cat on a hot tin roof and iago in othello
Jupiter Jones from the Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators Series.
Becky Sharpe, the minx
I absolutely fell in love with Howard Roark in The Fountainhead
and I had fallen in love with Jennifer Roberson's Robin Hood in The Lady of the Forest
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Jace Wayland from City of Bones.
Petruchio from The Taming of the Shrew because he has such a sense of humour, (maybe because I remember Richard Burton being so gloriously over the top!)
I do have to agree with this one.
I have more than one. They differ based on my mood.
Captain Wentworth - Persuasion (OBVIOUSLY!!!!
Rochester - Jane Eyre
Algernon Moncrieff - "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Sydney Carton - A Tale of Two Cities
Benedick - "Much Ado About Nothing"
Alec Scudder - Maurice
I know there are more, but those are currently the ones that top my list.
I don't think I could fall in love with Rochester (one of my least favourite characters) but well who knows since people tend to fall in love with people they don't like in the beginning as well! I mean look at Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Maybe if we get to know each other better....
Sydney Carton on the other hand? Yes, that's a good one. I love cynics and pessimists!
Sometimes, love just happens. There are no reasons, and if there are, they are just unknown or you can not express them in words.Hee hee - What is it about him exactly?
Last edited by Pensive; 11-15-2008 at 03:18 AM.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
As contrary this is to every moral fiber in my being- John Proctor (The Crucible)
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
Yes, see, that is a good way to look at it!
I am somehow drawn to them.Sydney Carton on the other hand? Yes, that's a good one. I love cynics and pessimists!
If it had not been the cause of the Trojan war, I could select Paris, but the one from the myth about his decision to choose Aphrodite as the most beautiful of the three, because she promissed to give him the love of a woman. I admire his wisdom to see that love is the most precious value in life. Not Paris from Homer's "Iliad".
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