Character meme

[litlover12]

1. Comment -- intelligently or in a nonsensical fashion, requesting to play. General comments are welcome too!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.

2theriver2pray gave me the letter E.


1. Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady

She's been my role model since I was about eleven. She's strong, smart, ambitious, and beautiful. And even though she's in love with Higgins, she doesn't take any crap from him.

2. Erik/The Phantom, The Phantom of the Opera

(Note: My Erik -- my mental Erik, if you will :-) -- is sort of a composite of the character from the book and the stage musical. Not the movie. I haven't seen the movie and don't plan to.)

Strictly speaking, I don't count Erik as one of my fictional boyfriends. I prefer that my fictional boyfriends not go around strangling people. Still, I feel deeply for him, and go to pieces a little when he makes his great sacrifice. And always end up longing to comfort him.

3. Estella, Great Expectations

I find her quite fascinating. What would it be like to have your heart stolen away and have ice put in its place? (Figuratively speaking, of course, but still it's a striking idea.) I once started to write a novel from her POV for NaNoWriMo, to explore this theme -- and wrote for all of two days before I gave up. It seems I wasn't made for month-long novel-writing challenges. Still, I'd like to write about her sometime.

4. Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

What can I say about her that hasn't already been said? She's witty, clever, thoughtful, playful, honest, loving, kind; flawed in some ways, but able to learn and grow. A delightful heroine all around.

5. Eugene Wrayburn, Our Mutual Friend

My friend Christy and I agree that we shouldn't like Eugene as much as we do. He definitely has caddish and self-centered tendencies, at least for a while. But there's something underneath that you just know has great potential, if it ever comes out. And fortunately, it does.

Besides, he's just so wonderfully snarky.

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Let me know if you want a letter!

Comments

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

A letter, please.

[sylverwind.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nice list, especially Eliza Doolittle. I probably wouldn't have thought of her, but it's true - she's an AWESOME character.

I'd like to play, too! :D

i want a letter

[rachkmc.livejournal.com]

i only keep this lj to comment on people's stuff :-) I actually blog at www.a-fair-substitute-for-heaven.blogspot.com and would post there.

[jobey-in-error.livejournal.com]

Oooh, what a great meme! And I love your list.

A novel from Estella's points of view, hmm. Somehow it seems like it would go a similar route to Lewis's spiritual cramps writing from Screwtape's POV... disturbing in large doses! (Though I can't talk.) I need to reread Great Expectations. It's been too long. I was too young for it in high school but I remember liking it just the same.

Give me a letter so I can play too, please. :)

[2theriver2pray.livejournal.com]

I prefer that my fictional boyfriends not go around strangling people.

*giggles*

Estella's P.O.V. would be awesome and insightful. I can totally see how that would be hard to write though.

I'd love a letter. :)

[victoria-tonks.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, it sounds like fun. I'm not sure I'll be able to do it right now (I'm leaving for the no-Internet land tomorrow), but I'll get to it sooner or later. So, may I have a letter, please? :)

[ever-maedhros.livejournal.com]

Wow. I have had my own special mental Phantom of the Opera running about inside my mind as well, ever since I was a little girl watching Wishbone. So glad to know I'm not the only one. :)

[tpeej.livejournal.com]

I'd love a letter!

[valancy-s.livejournal.com]

Hm, I don't know if I'll get around to doing it (crazy week ahead) but I'll take a letter.

I've been wanted to do a post about Eliza Doolittle for about six months, since I first read George Bernard Shaw's fascinating angry Afterward to Pygmalion, after the director changed his ending. It just riveted me. I had to rethink my own expectations and responses as a viewer.

[velle.livejournal.com]

I love your choices! I agree, about Estella, she is really interesting.
May I have a letter?

[msantimacassar.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I could come up with 5 characters from one letter, so I'll just say I love your answers! I perfer my fictional boyfriends to not strangle people also ;)

[birdienl.livejournal.com]

Nice choices! I would love to have a letter as well.