I'm working on a creative writing project, and I'm featuring 6 main characters, all whose personalities will be molded according to the 6 most memorable or influential literary characters.
I've got a few names (Hester Prynne, Tom Sawyer, Dorian Gray), but could you recommend a few others that I completely forgot about, either 3 more in addition to those, or 6 entirely different names you feel are more well-known.
(A couple of other names I'm toying around with are simply Ahab, and George Milton).
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Anonymous2009-04-16 18:18
Count of Monte Cristo
Raskolnikov (Crime & Punishment)
Sherlock Holmes
Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities)
Odysseus
Hamlet
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Anonymous2009-04-16 18:48
Nice gimmick, OP. What next, a 20-book series of themed mysteries?
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Anonymous2009-04-16 18:59
Jesus Christ
Hamlet
Don Quixote
Faust
Leopold Bloom
Dante
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Anonymous2009-04-16 19:24
>>3
Oh, that already exists. It's called the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde.
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Anonymous2009-04-16 21:37
>>5 Oh, that already exists.
That's the point. See: half of everything women read.
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Anonymous2009-04-16 22:08
>>4
Leopold and Don Quixote aren't quite as famous as the others, and Dante isn't fictional.
I would take off those three and add Victor Frankenstein, Scheherazade, and Genji.
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Anonymous2009-04-16 23:08
They may not be the most popular -- I've limited myself to the 20th century -- but they're certainly memorable:
Humbert Humbert
Phillip Marlowe
Billy Pilgrim
Holden Caulfield
Atticus Finch
Jay Gatsby
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Anonymous2009-04-17 14:03
>>7
The Dante character created by Dante that traveled to Hell and Purgatory and Heaven and back was fictional.
The Guardian lists Don Quixote as the greatest novel of all time.
The Modern Library lists Ulysses as the greatest novel of the 20th century.
Putting Frankenstein above Don Quixote is just ridiculous.