Which fictional characters would you want to know more about?

[oggbashan]

I have been thinking about fictional characters from English Literature that I would want to feature in more stories/episodes of their lives.

It became a surprisingly long list. Here are a selected few of mine:

Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Shakespeare's Beatrice and Benedict; The Merry Wives of Windsor including Sir John Falstaff
Sir Walter Scott - Rebecca from Ivanhoe
John Buchan's Richard Hannay
Sir H Rider Haggard's Allan Quartermain (and She/Ayesha)
Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger (and Sir Nigel Loring from The White Company and Sir Nigel)

Which characters would you want more stories about?

 

[R. Richard]

Nicolas Van Rijn
Justin Imperiale
Kane

 

[Gorza]

I have been thinking about fictional characters from English Literature that I would want to feature in more stories/episodes of their lives.

To take it down a notch: shagging?

 

[Nathan_Brazil]

Nathan Brazil
John Carter
Mavra Chang
Samuel Clemens
Per Hiero Desteen
Logan

 

[Hypoxia]

Fictional characters: none.
Authors: quite a few.

Nathan Brazil
John Carter
Mavra Chang
Samuel Clemens
Per Hiero Desteen
Logan

I see you've got one author in your list.

 

[Nathan_Brazil]

Fictional characters: none.
Authors: quite a few.


I see you've got one author in your list.

Actually, no. Well...sort of.

I was thinking Philip Jose Farmer's version of him in Riverworld.

 

[GoldenMaia]

Mister Darcy -- Lots and lots of him...naked...in oil.... Maybe a bit gag. *ahem*

Oh, hi there.

 

[oggbashan]

To take it down a notch: shagging?

The Wife of Bath was an expert.

I expect that the Merry Wives of Windsor were too.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Don Juan. Superman. And, of course, 007.

 

[lovecraft68]

Don Juan. Superman. And, of course, 007.

There's a new 007 movie out every year, how much do you want to know?

Most cardboard, predictable, boring over rated character out there. Superman with a gun.

 

[legerdemer]

Great question: here are the first to come to mind.

The Crow
Karla (from Smiley's People et al.)
Augusta Bertram, from Graham Greene's Travels With My Aunt
and yes, Rebecca from Ivanhoe

 

[oggbashan]

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and yes, Rebecca from Ivanhoe

I think that Rebecca is a much more realistic character than Rowena, the apparent heroine.

 

[legerdemer]

I think that Rebecca is a much more realistic character than Rowena, the apparent heroine.

Rowena seemed rather insipid to me, but it's been a while since I read the book. It was one of my very favorites, though. I think it and WS are underestimated.

 

[Handley_Page]

Can I choose one from my childhood ?
Dan Dare [pilot of the future].

 

[Bramblethorn]

Inigo Montoya. He's built his whole life around killing the six-fingered man - so what does he do after that?

I don't know if it'd be a happy story, but I'd be interested to read it.

 

[GoldenCojones]

Nurse Rosetta (She's a character in a song by Alice Cooper )

 

[sunandshadow]

Not English Literature, but if you've ever seen The Magic Flute, I always thought Monostatos could have been an interesting character based on the one solo he gets. (However, in the original his characterization is actually rather flat and racist.) He's quite parallel to Grima Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings, where in the original he has no redeeming qualities and is clearly evil, but with a small twist the modern interpretation of him in the movies is much more interesting.

 

[oggbashan]

Not English Literature, but if you've ever seen The Magic Flute, I always thought Monostatos could have been an interesting character based on the one solo he gets. (However, in the original his characterization is actually rather flat and racist.) He's quite parallel to Grima Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings, where in the original he has no redeeming qualities and is clearly evil, but with a small twist the modern interpretation of him in the movies is much more interesting.

Apart from the story I wrote 'The Magic Flute' based on the trials of Tamino and Pamina, I think there are many threads from that opera that could be explored further:

What is the back story of Sarastro and the Queen of the Night? Who, and why, are the Two Armed Men? Why does Tamino deserve Pamina? Why does she want him? All Tamino has seen is a picture of Pamina shown by the villainess yet he rushes off to save Pamina. Why?

Why should Pamina even think about the Queen of the Night's suggestion that Sarastro should be killed? The justification for Pamina to stab Sarastro seems to come out of nowhere. There must be more for the Queen's suggestion to be even vaguely credible.

I appreciate the Freemasons' symbolism in The Magic Flute but it is flawed and twisted.

As for the three boys? I've seen one production in which the three boys were played by very delightful young ladies. The Papageno seemed distracted by them (He wasn't the only one!).

Although the opera purports to show that women are weak and helpless dependents of men, the Queen of the Night, Pamina and even Papagena show that they are not.