Most Horrible Character

[*Classic*Charm*]

Not at all, if you can't stand her, you can't stand her, fair enough. And I'm sorry if it seemed like I was having a go at you or trying to tell you what to think, I was just surprised by it, and you were the one who responded!

At any rate, thanks for your reply. Food for thought.

No need to apologize whatsoever

[Zee.]

Well, it depends on what the OP meant when they wrote "horrible"

Horribly written? horrible nature?

Someone mentioned Alex from A Clockwork Orange and although his nature is "horrible" he was a brilliant character.

With that being said i'm going to interpret "horrible" as the most irritating, annoying character and that would most definitely be....


JANE BLOODY EYRE. THE MOST ANNOYING BITT...CHaracter (hehe)
ever written.

EVER.

Female characters irritate me. Generally speaking

[Josh Wardrip]

Might raise a few eyebrows, but Stephen Dedalus in Portrait (not so much in Ulysses). Annoyed the piss out of me.

[kelby_lake]

Or the novel is simply depicting how things were at the time when a white person was needed to voice the injustice an African American was subjected to.

Yes, but it's done in a patronising way. It's a very patronising novel to anyone who isn't a WASP.

Tom Buchmann - The Great Gatsby

Tom was mean!

[mollie]

Might raise a few eyebrows, but Stephen Dedalus in Portrait (not so much in Ulysses). Annoyed the piss out of me.

Doesn't raise mine. He irritated the hell out of me.

[jinjang]

I agree with Mollie in the sense that some of you seem confused "annoying" with "horrible."

Here is my list:
Ternadier in Les Miserables;
Humbert Humbert in Lolita;
Count Dracula;
Sauron in Lord of the Rings;
(cautiously I might add) God in Old Testament

[Mr Endon]

(cautiously I might add) God in Old Testament

Dear me, that's a bold one! Props!

[wat??]

Tom was mean!

I really wanted to see him get his comemupance. It never happened

Gatsby should have shot him...or something.

[Tsuyoiko]

Might raise a few eyebrows, but Stephen Dedalus in Portrait (not so much in Ulysses). Annoyed the piss out of me.

He doesn't annoy me personally, but I know what you mean. The guy is pretentious even inside his own head

[andave_ya]

Anna Karenina from the novel of the same name,
and
Lord Henry from Dorian Gray.

[PoeticPassions]

Ternadier in Les Miserables;

(cautiously I might add) God in Old Testament

I wholeheartedly agree with Thernadier... he had no reedeming qualities, whatsoever.

I add God in Paradise Lost to the Old Testament

Lima, I also agree with Jane Eyre.. while generally enjoyed the book, I found her character to be so... frustrating, to say the least.

Tom was mean!

I found Daisy to be awful as well...

[Dark Lady]

JANE BLOODY EYRE. THE MOST ANNOYING BITT...CHaracter (hehe)
ever written.

EVER.

Female characters irritate me. Generally speaking

What did you find particularly annoying about poor Jane? She irrates me in parts but I quite like her on the whole and the novel is one of my favourites.

[Madame X]

Ms. Eyre? Prim, proper, and perfectly prudish, like a good little Victorian. I personally find M. Rochester to be the more galling, however...to the opposite extreme, that is. Far too irritatingly temperamental.

[Dark Lady]

Ms. Eyre? Prim, proper, and perfectly prudish, like a good little Victorian. I personally find M. Rochester to be the more galling, however...to the opposite extreme, that is. Far too irritatingly temperamental.

Ah now I know how the Wuthering Heights fans feel when I vent about it!

I always think of her as having had a pretty hard life and she has had to toughen up to deal with it all. A good little Victorian? Yes in some ways. But in others quite radical for the time.

And I love Rochester! Despite his mood swings...and the fact he locked his wife in the attic.

[mona amon]

Ms. Eyre? Prim, proper, and perfectly prudish, like a good little Victorian. I personally find M. Rochester to be the more galling, however...to the opposite extreme, that is. Far too irritatingly temperamental.

Jane Eyre prudish? Contemporary readers certainly didn't think so.

I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre and think her by far the cleverest that has written since Austen and Edgeworth were in their prime. Worth fifty Trollopes and Martineaus rolled into one counterpane , with fifty Dickenses and Bulwers to keep them company; but rather a brazen Miss....[cut]....a thin, little, unpretty slip of a governess, who falls in love with a plain, stoutish Mr. Burnand, aged twenty years above herself, sits on his knee, lights his cigar for him, asks him flat one fine evening, and after a concealed mad wife is dead, at last fills that awful lady's place. Lady Fanny will easily extract the moral of this touching fable. - J. G. Lockhart, from a letter.