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Lit. Characters COMP
Huge list of lit. characters
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |