Some of My Favourite Characters in Literature
This month's blog hop topic is What was/is your all-time favourite character(s) in literature and why . I feel War and Peace coming on (if not Poor Fellow My Country ) but I shall endeavour to keep this post brief and to the point. As with favourite tunes and books or even foods, I put my favourite characters into categories. I remember a time when I was asked to write about my ideal dinner party guests, choosing from a range of deceased and fictional characters. The seven I chose then would probably be different now. I might also consider whether the guests would get along—or even be able to converse intelligibly. For example, Geoffrey Trease’s Alexis Leonides, though he speaks with colloquial 1950s English (though he doesn’t use 1950s idioms) in The Crown of Violet , would really be talking in Socratic Greek. I wouldn’t understand him, for that matter. Even English speakers from too long ago would be a challenge. I looked into how many centuries it takes fo...