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.
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.
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
Originally Posted by Guinivere
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
. 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.
Mr.Rochester in JANE EYRE
and i wish i had a father like Jean Valjean in LES' MISERABLES
"He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own,
The way the night comes when day is done."
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.
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.
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
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
I fell in love with a character in a novel that I started. I dropped that project.
Same! I love all the alcoholic/tortured menSydney Carton on the other hand? Yes, that's a good one. I love cynics and pessimists!
John Proctor! Why?!As contrary this is to every moral fiber in my being- John Proctor (The Crucible)
Heathcliff or Macbeth.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
Oh- Japhy Ryder...no doubt about it.
Too late! I am afraid, he's already been spoken for!
Nobody is going to bring up Yossarian?
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Why does it go against my morals, or why is he my fictional love? haha
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'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?
I love that!
Of course!
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.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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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.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.
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.
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