This was an add-on to my first question but nobody seemed to see it.
I HATE Sue Bridehead from 'Jude the Obscure'. I think she is the most self-deluded character I have ever come across. I also detest Stephen from 'The Well of Loneliness', who I find ugly and odious beyond words.
Who could you willingly throttle??
ps: please do not answer this with anything along the lines that 'they are only books'. That rather defies the point, and furthermore I will find your lack of imagination depressing.
2007-03-18 03:46:42 · 20 answers · asked by sallybowles 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Sue Bridehead is a good choice. Jude, though is interesting. He may have been a fool for love, but his managing to come to some sort of terms with his outcomes was a beacon of hope for me when I was in my darkest hour. The novel wouldn't have worked unless Sue was Sue.
2007-03-19 12:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by G-zilla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always loved to hate the awful characters that Charles Dickens invented - Quilp from The Old Curiosity Shop - so lecherous and disgusting, and Uriah Heap from David Copperfield for the same reasons.
Mrs Danvers from Rebecca was also very easy to dislike.
The pigs in Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Also agree with Umbridge being the nastiest thing to ever happen to Harry Potter.
Axel Rex in Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark is also cruel and sadistic.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
2007-03-19 09:26:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Andrea in Devil wear's Prada, I just want to slap her. I forced myself to finish reading the book because i was using it as research for an essay but I could only read a few pages at a time because I just wanted to throw the book across the room before long. Ditto the heroine in the Nanny Diaries... I really struggle with Chick Lit heroine's, they're all completely nauseating and slapable.
Also, and I'm afraid this is probably a criminal offence I don't like Sam in Lord of the Rings. He just strikes me as really pious, don't know why, I never did like him... he grew on me slightly in the films, but in the books I couldn't stand him, or Frodo who just annoyed me for no truly justifiable reason.
Wow, read this back and I sound like the wicked witch of the west!
2007-03-19 16:14:40 · answer #3 · answered by Demeter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, Hermione Granger from "Harry Potter" would be close one!
I do respect her, but I don’t like her a bit. She loves to compare her academic achievement with another student and boast about her knowledge, intentionally or not-which also lessens my empathy toward her even more!
She enjoys too much being Ms. Insufferable-know-it-all and until the end she will NOT be my favorite! She reminds me a lot to my fellow classmate who's desperately studying anytime: not because of the knowledge for knowledge's sake... but because she's so afraid to fail her class, unable to skip grades, and loss of chance of becoming teacher's favorite (read: teacher's pet!)!
Such an attitude for "the best" student there!!!
2007-03-18 10:51:13 · answer #4 · answered by Professor Franklin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From harry potter: malfoy (junior and senior), umbridge, hermione sometimes..not always..., snape can sometimes be an ODIOUS man, bless him... In the movie, I hated the werewolf Lupin transformed into..its was such a disappointment, and so feckin ugly and unimaginative!
From lord of the rings, Sam sometimes...(in the movie he's a bit effeminate), that cruel king (the one with very white skin and black hair..forgot his name but he was a complete asshole).
from enid blyton's famous five..Anne. She is such a p*ssy and afraid of adventure. She should go hide under a rock.
From Steinbeck's Of mice and men - curley, for obvious reasons (b.a.s.t.a.r.d.). Also from steinbeck's East of Eden - Kate, also for obvious reasons...she was unbelieveably deluding and evil evil evil.
2007-03-20 05:40:19 · answer #5 · answered by Eevaya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you about Sue Bridehead. I also hate Jane Eyre's aunt who unfairly gave the child such a rough time and lied to try and deprive Jane of an inheritance, and also lied stating that Jane was wicked and a cheat and had her sent to the Lowood school where she suffered enormous deprivation. She was like the wicked witch of the west.
2007-03-18 14:42:42 · answer #6 · answered by nemesis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see, there's a few, off the top of my head right now, there's Bingley's sisters in Pride and Prejudice, they are utterly two-faced and manipulative.
Umbridge from Harry Potter, the devil wears pink fluff.
There are loads more, but those are the only ones I could think of at the moment.
2007-03-18 14:40:03 · answer #7 · answered by scattycat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uriah heap is so disgusting all slimy and yuk but dickens has some brill characters in his books Heathcliff is pretty nasty to he is cruel and full of his own self i would love to know where he found his wealth to torment the Earnshores and scarlet O'Hara a great character but i would love to slap her to wake her up love gone with the wind and scarlet both great books but not really Shakespeare
2007-03-18 19:23:31 · answer #8 · answered by old-bag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thenardier and Javert from Les Miserables
Big Brother from 1984
2007-03-18 16:06:19 · answer #9 · answered by shy_voo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahweh. He's so uptight. Just because he's "The Father" doesn't mean he has to be so grumpy. All that genocide totally turns the old testament into a downer. Jesus and the holy ghost are cool though. Does anyone know when god will be bringing out the final part of the trilogy?
2007-03-18 11:46:18 · answer #10 · answered by Hmmbox 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋