interesting...the doc agrees that he was quite the literary character...and lolita wasn't chopped liver when developing a character either...Originally Posted by Travis_R
interesting...the doc agrees that he was quite the literary character...and lolita wasn't chopped liver when developing a character either...
My #3 and #2 have been mentioned (Judge Holden & Raskolnikov), but my #1 favorite character is without doubt Thomas Sutpen, from Absalom, Absalom!
a memorable character indeed...one of faulkner's finest w/o a doubt...
These were the first two I thought of.
Personally, Oliver Twist.. But just because of a play I was in, in 5th grade..
Books completed in 2011:
- Shadow of the Hegemon - Orson Scott Card
- The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
- The Iliad - Homer
"Homer was on the rowing team at his high school." ~My grandfather
flem snopes was quite the character from faulkner's imagination...he might not get all the attention that some of his other characters do, but he doesn't have to take a back seat to any of them either...
just an unbelievably interesting character...and very believable too...
Going to throw out a plug for Miss Havisham from Great Expectations simply because the images of her in the midst of all her wedding day garb and flying at Pip aflame are some of the strongest I have had whilst reading a novel. Although admitedly I havn't read nearly as many books as other around here so this could change when I start working my way through.
Cognito Ergo Sum - sometimes I worry that I and a lot of other people have stopped existing.
Probably already mentioned, but my vote goes to Don Quixote.
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
Oh! I love that character.
But probably Sam Gamgee. And definitely Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Aragorn, and etc.(*Their all from LOTR.)
It's really kind of hard to argue with Luke's suggestions of God, Jesus, Moses, Satan, et al, from the Bible. I mean, really, who could even compete?
Anyways, Biblical beings aside, I'd like to nominate a few Tolstoy characters...Pierre and Andrei from War and Peace, and Levin and Anna from Anna Karenina.
Nietzsche's Zarathustra also seems to have made a pretty decent impact on the Western World. That might just be one of those personally memorable characters, though.
I think Faust deserves a shot.
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
I'd probably have to go for Dean Moriarty, though there's an endless list to choose from. Prince Andrei, Jay Gatsby, Leopold Bloom, Sam Gamgee, Atticus Finch, McMurphy and Melquíades, are all also excellent mentions
Isn't it pretty to think so?
Pierre is one of my favorite characters although it was difficult to understand him sometimes. I also agree about Andrei, Levin and Anna.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~ William Blake
Captivity is consciousness,
So's liberty. ~ Emily Dickinson
I don't know if plays count but if they do, nothing beats the tie between Romeo and Juliette.
If plays do not count, I would have to say Don Quixote.
These are characters that truly ring and have rung in the ears of millions, throughout so many countries and over such a long time.
I love Pierre. I'm only 350 pages through the book, but whenever there's a battle scene, I can't help but think, "Man, I'm tired of reading about people getting blown up, I want to see what happens to Pierre during the next dinner party!" He never ceases to entertain me.
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