Hear n’ There

‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’  What about two women? My guess is that no one ever lived to tell the tale. So am taking up this ‘tag’ and have to write my favorite five literary characters thanks to Jahnabi and Tania. Sorry for making you two wait.

Konstantin Dmitrievitch Levin (Anna Karenina): The co-protagonist of a novel by the Russian Leo Tolstoy. Though Anna herself is a close second she fails to beat Levin. Tolstoy shows what ‘Character Development’ actually is. Teaches you many things, this guy does and I am not talking about Ayn Rand ideology here.

Harry Potter n’ Co: Not even a month since the release of the last book. To not write the name of every major character here would be treachery of the nth order.

Melchizedek- The King of Salem (The Alchemist) : He has a very small part as such in the book, but I think it is the part in us which makes us like the omnipotent and omniscient and gets him a place in this list. Gandalf and Dumbledore fall in the same league. It is the calm sense of purpose and never ending enthusiasm that makes me like them. Though I loved the book, disagree with the ‘Everything in this universe conspires’ crap.

Aragorn (Lord of the Rings): A popular favorite I would say. Presently he reminds me of the brilliantly directed LOTR series and makes me wish that Peter Jackson directs the last HP book, in particular from the ‘Battle of Hogwarts’ onwards. He has things in common with Harry’s character, like all heroes, if you think of it. Though I request you not to jump in your seat saying I told you Jo ripped LOTR and HP is all hype. Thou shall rot in Bubotber Pus if you do so.

Darcy & Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice): I like the arrogance in them and the way their characters loosen in the same fashion as one sees in real life.

Piscine ‘Pi’ Molitor Patel (Life of Pi): The book is in the first-person narrative, hence one forms a bond with Pi. The final few chapters where he recounts to a couple of officers how he spent 227 days on a boat alone with negligible supplies and a tiger to a couple of men and then tells them a more believable story, though still analogous to his actual one, and his subsequent arguments which included saying ‘People did not believe Galileo about the earth’ portray his genius. A must read I would say. Check out this plot summary from Wikipedia.

Insult of the Day: Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. Oscar Wilde.

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