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Lit. Characters COMP
Huge list of lit. characters
Question | Answer |
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Sancho Panza | Don Quixote (Quixote's side-kick) |
Rocinante | Don Quixote (his horse) |
Dapple | Don Quixote (panza's donkey) |
Cide Hamete Benengeli | Don Quixote |
Dulcinea del Toboso | Don Quixote |
Edward Rochester | Jane Eyre |
St. John Rivers | Jane Eyre |
Mrs. Reed | Jane Eyre |
Bessie Lee | Jane Eyre |
Mr. Lloyd | Jane Eyre |
Eliza and John Reed | Jane Eyre (Jane's cousins) |
Maria Temple | Jane Eyre |
Elizabeth Bennet | Pride and Prejudice (protagonist) |
Fitzwilliam Darcy | Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Bennet | Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth's oldest sister) |
Charles Bingley | Pride and Prejudice |
Mr. and Mrs. Bennett | Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth and Jane's sisters) |
George Wickham | Pride and Prejudice |
Mr. Collins | Pride and Prejudice |
Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner | Pride and Prejudice |
Leopold Bloom | Ulysses |
Marion (Molly) Bloom | Ulysses (Leopold's wife) |
Stephen Dedalus | Ulysses |
Malachi (Buck) Mulligan | Ulysses |
Haines | Ulysses |
Hugh (“Blazes”) Boylan | Ulysses |
Richard Best | Ulysses |
Edy Boardman | Ulysses |
The Citizen | Ulysses |
Gerty McDowell | Ulysses |
Caffrey family | Ulysses |
Hester Prynne | The Scarlet Letter (protagonist) |
Pearl | The Scarlet Letter |
Roger Chillingworth | The Scarlet Letter |
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale | The Scarlet Letter |
Governor Bellingham | The Scarlet Letter |
Mistress Hibbins | The Scarlet Letter |
Reverend Mr. John Wilson | The Scarlet Letter |
Stage Manager | Our Town (host of play) |
George Gibbs | Our Town |
Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs | Our Town (parents of G. Gibbs) |
Emily Webb | Our Town |
Mr. and Mrs. Webb | Our Town |
Mrs. Soames | Our Town (gossipy) |
Simon Stimson | Our Town |
Rebecca Gibbs | Our Town (George's younger sister) |
Crowell brothers | Our Town |
Professor Willard | Our Town |
Raskolnikov | Crime and Punishment (Protagonist) |
Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov | Crime and Punishment |
Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov | Crime and Punishment (protagonist's sister) |
Svidrigailov | Crime and Punishment |
Razumikhin | Crime and Punishment |
Porfiry Petrovich | Crime and Punishment (In charge of murder investigation) |
Ivanovna | Crime and Punishment |
Zossimov | Crime and Punishment (Roskolnikov's doctor) |
Henry Fleming | Red Badge of Courage (protagonist) |
Jim Conklin | Red Badge of Courage |
Wilson | Red Badge of Courage (noisy private) |
The tattered soldier | Red Badge of Courage |
The lieutenant | Red Badge of Courage |
Pangloss | Candide (Candide's tutor) |
Martin | Candide (friend of Candide, skeptic) |
Cunégonde | Candide |
Cacambo | Candide |
The old woman | Candide (born the daughter of pope) |
The Commander | Candide |
Jacques (the Anabaptist) | Candide |
Paquette | Candide |
The farmer | Candide |
Jean Valjean | Les Miserables (protagonist) |
Cosette | Les Miserables (lives with valjean after mother's death) |
Javert | Les Miserables |
Fantine | Les Miserables (Cosette's mother) |
Marius Pontmercy | Les Miserables |
M. Myriel | Les Miserables |
Thénardier | Les Miserables |
Eponine | Les Miserables |
M. Gillenormand | Les Miserables |
Gavroche | Les Miserables |
Azelma | Les Miserables (daughter of thenardier's) |
D'Artagnan | The Three Musketeers (central character) |
Athos | The Three Musketeers (Most important of the three) |
Aramis | The Three Musketeers (one of the great three) |
Porthos | The Three Musketeers (the last of the three) |
Lady de Winter and Lord de Winter | The Three Musketeers (evil, beautiful woman; lady's brother-in-law) |
Bonacieux | The Three Musketeers (husband and wife family, madam and monsier) |
Cardinal Richelieu | The Three Musketeers (Kings most influential advisor) |
King Louis XIII | The Three Musketeers (king of france, dominated by cardinals) |
Queen Anne | The Three Musketeers (Queen of France) |
George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham | The Three Musketeers |
Comte de Rochefort and Comte de Wardes | The Three Musketeers (Cardinal's private spy; cardinalist agent) |
Planchet | The Three Musketeers (D'artagnan's manservant) |
Grimaud | The Three Musketeers (Athos' manservant) |
Mousqueton | The Three Musketeers (Porthos's manservant) |
Bazin | The Three Musketeers (Aramis's manservant) |
Humbert Humbert | Lolita (narrator and protagonist) |
Dolores (Lolita) Haze | Lolita (the Lolita) |
Clare Quilty | Lolita (Humbert's shadow and double) |
Charlotte Haze | Lolita (humbert's wife and Delores MOTHER!) |
Annabel Leigh | Lolita (humbert's childhood love) |
Jean and John Farlow | Lolita |
Rita and Mona | Lolita |
Marlow | Heart of Darkness (protagonist) |
Kurtz | Heart of Darkness (subject of marlow's quest) |
General manager | Heart of Darkness |
Brickmaker | Heart of Darkness |
Chief accountant | Heart of Darkness |
Pilgrims | Heart of Darkness |
Cannibals | Heart of Darkness |
Helmsman | Heart of Darkness (young man) |
6 generations of Buendía family | 100 years of solitude |
Edmond Dantès | The Count of Monte Cristo (protagonist) |
The Count of Monte Cristo | The Count of Monte Cristo (Dantes assumes this title when he inherits fortune) |
Abbé Busoni | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Sinbad the Sailor | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Mercédès | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Abbé Faria | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Fernand Mondego | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Baron Danglars | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Caderousse | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Gérard de Villefort | The Count of Monte Cristo |
Nora | A Doll's House (protagonist) |
Torvald Helmer | A Doll's House (Nora's husband) |
Krogstad | A Doll's House |
Mrs. Linde | A Doll's House |
Dr. Rank | A Doll's House (Torvald's best friend) |
Bob, Emmy, and Ivar | A Doll's House (Nora and Torvald's three children) |
Anne-Marie | A Doll's House |
Friday | Robinson Crusoe (cannibal who converts to Protestantism) |
The Portuguese captain | Robinson Crusoe |
The Spaniard | Robinson Crusoe |
Xury | Robinson Crusoe (slave-boy) |
The Widow | Robinson Crusoe |
Buck | The Call of The Wild (Protagonist, powerful dog) |
John Thornton | The Call of The Wild (buck's last master) |
Spitz | The Call of The Wild (bucks archrival) |
Francois | The Call of The Wild (buys buck) |
Perrault | The Call of The Wild (with Francois, turn buck into sled dog) |
Hal | The Call of The Wild |
Mercedes | The Call of The Wild |
Charles | The Call of The Wild |
Dave and Curley | The Call of The Wild (two friends of Buck) |
Aunt Chloe | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Uncle Tom's wife) |
Arthur Shelby | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Owner of Uncle Tom in Kentucky) |
Emily and George Shelby | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Eliza and George Harris | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Augustine St. Clare | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Eva | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Miss Ophilia | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Simon Legree | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Tom Loker | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Vladimir | Waiting for Godot (one of two main characters) |
Estragon | Waiting for Godot (other of two main characters) |
Pozzo | Waiting for Godot |
Lucky | Waiting for Godot |
Boy | Waiting for Godot (informs vladimir each not the Godot isn't coming) |
Godot | Waiting for Godot (sometimes thought to be "god" never seen in play) |
Willie Stark | All the King's Men (boss of protagonist) |
Jack Burden | All the King's Men (protagonist) |
Anne Stanton | All the King's Men (Burden's first love) |
Adam Stanton | All the King's Men |
Judge Montague Irwin | All the King's Men |
Sadie Burke | All the King's Men |
Tiny Duffy | All The King's Men |
Stark (last name) | All The King's Men |
Castorp | The Magic Mountain (main character, other characters represent allegories) |
Settembrini | The Magic Mountain |
Naphta | The Magic Mountain |
Chauchat | The Magic Mountain |
Peeperkorn | The Magic Mountain |
Ziemssen | The Magic Mountain |
Brother Jack | Invisible Man (leader of The Brotherhood) |
Tod Clifton | Invisible Man (black member of the brotherhood) |
Ras the Exhorter | Invisible Man |
Rinehart | Invisible Man |
Dr. Bledsoe | Invisible Man |
Mr. Norton | Invisible Man |
Jim Trueblood | Invisible Man |
Emerson | Invisible Man |
Vladimir Lensky | Eugene Onegin (onegin's friend) |
Tatyana Larina | Eugene Onegin |
Olga Larina | Eugene Onegin |
Pushkin's raisonneur | Eugene Onegin |
Pushkin's Muse | Eugene Onegin |
Colonel Brandon | Sense and Sensibility |
Dashwood Family (elinor, henry, fanny, john) | Sense and Sensibility |
Ferrars family | Sense and Sensibility |
Miss Sophia Grey | Sense and Sensibility |
Mrs. Jennings | Sense and Sensibility |
The Steeles' and Middletons' | Sense and Sensibility |
Meursault | The Stranger (protag. and narrator) |
Marie Cardona | The Stranger |
Raymond Sintes | The Stranger |
The Chaplain | The Stranger |
Thomas Perez | The Stranger |
The Examining Magistrate | The Stranger |
The caretaker | The Stranger |
The Director | The Stranger |
John Yossarian | Catch-22 |
Captain Aardvark | Catch-22 |
Chaplain Tappman | Catch-22 |
Doctor Daneeka | Catch-22 |
Lieutenant Nately | Catch-22 |
The old man in Rome | Catch-22 |
Walter Lee Younger | A Raisin in the Sun |
Younger Family | A Raisin in the Sun |
Bobo | A Raisin in the Sun |
Mr. Karl Lindner | A Raisin in the Sun (Only White Character) |
Heathcliff | Wuthering Heights (Orphan) |
Mr. Earnshaw | Wuthering Heights |
Catherine | Wuthering Heights |
Edgar Linton | Wuthering Heights |
Nelly Dean | Wuthering Heights |
Lockwood | Wuthering Heights |
Zillah | Wuthering Heights |
Jim Burden | My Antonia |
Ántonia Shimerda | My Antonia |
Lena Lingard | My Antonia |
Jake Marpole | My Antonia |
Mrs. Lyuba Ranevsky | The Cherry Orchard |
Yermolay Lopakhin | The Cherry Orchard |
Varya and Anya | The Cherry Orchard |
Billy Pilgrim | The Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kurt Vonnegut | The Slaughterhouse-Five (Yes, he's a minor character) |
The O'Hare's | The Slaughterhouse-Five |
Wild Bob | The Slaughterhouse-Five |