What is your favorite character of a book?

Question

I like "Jane Eyer" too much. Although she is an orphan,she has a very strong personality.

Answer 1

I don't think I could ever pick just one, but there's a part of me that's smitten with Estella from Great Expectations.
By the way, if you like Jane Eyre, you should give Bronte's novel Villette a try. Lucy Snowe from Villette has quite a few things in common with Jane Eyre.

Answer 2

My favorite character is Francis Varney, of the 19th century penny dreadful novel, "Varney The Vampire".

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PreVarn.html

It took me ages to read this very long book but it was SO interesting. Varney starts off as a perfect anti-hero; very sympathic despite his tendency to cause trouble wherever he goes. In the last part of the book he rather has a mental breakdown and the bodies pile up. It's not Jane Austen, I admit, but I love it devotedly. I guess I'd better read this Jane Austen everyone raves about. I bet in Jane Austen nobody rides by a the body of a recently hung highwayman late at night or has to climb down the ivy covered wall of a great mansion to escape a frenzied mob of torch bearing villages. But I better read it, all the same...

Answer 3

Good choice. The purpose of a book's central character is to be moral--realistic about living on Earth--and ethical, neither dictator nor slave toward others. But characters other than the the purposing central character can also be interestingly incomplete, worried, at war with themselves.
Confining myself to central characters, I tend to like grownups rather than eager young learner types. If I must choose one, it would be on the basis of the goal he was after--how difficult, important, challenging, valuable it was; and by the categorical way he pursued it with courage, diligence and intelligence. Mine is John Gordon, hero of Edmond Hamilton's "The Star Kings" I can only say that the story is set in the very distant future, on Earth and other worlds; and that the hero never disappoints in any way.

Answer 4

I'm with Kait...

HAS to be Mr Darcy .. LOL the only ficticious character I think I can admit to having a crush on ( in each and every film version of the book . . I just go all swooning AND I AM NOT the swooning type)...

He is well aware that he and his peers are prey for women ( and their pushy mothers) seeking financial security .. so he is therefore guarded and that then gives him his airs of arrogance .. when I guess it is entirely understandable... He is so loyal to his sister and when Elizabeth finds herself in the same situation he was ( when stupid Lydia runs off with wickham) he immediately understands .. and goes off to fix things ..

He is not one to be taken in by beauty alone ( as it seems Mr Bennet was when he married Mrs Bennett) and truly wanted an equal to his mind rather than his financial standing ....

Oh I am sorry >. I am rambling ( like Kitty and Lydia) BUT Mr Darcy really is so ramble-worthy,

Answer 5

I love Pie oh Pah from Clive Barker's "Imajica". The most highly original person I've ever met in any book ever. Pie is a mystif, who is neither male nor female, but can be either. The complexity of the character makes for some very interesting situations.

Answer 6

Can I tell about any book?
Then my favorite character will be Georgina Kirrin of The Famous Five Series written by Enid Blyton

Answer 7

Perrin Aybara in *The Eye of the World* by Robert Jordan

Answer 8

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy..its hard to chose between the 2 of them and are a good match for each other....love the book too!!!!!

Answer 9

Captain Yossarian "Catch-22"

Answer 10

no doubt Zarathustra from Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For All and None by Fredrich Nietzsche