Greatest male or female characters of all time?
I'm looking to study and discuss amazing characters in history and literature, and I mean amazing in the broadest sense. They don't have to be considered moral, popular, heroic etc.
I'm just looking for interesting and deep characters.
Pic related is a fascinating character for her outsmarting the church.
I'd like to see amazing characters from all walks, any political or cultural identity is fine as well.
Thanks.
Satan, Paradise Lost, Milton
So you're looking for character driven works? Do you care if it's in first person? Have you tried Lolita?
Maldoror
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Antigone
Fuck off with this socialist traitor, you libcuck.
He ruined America
Seconded
Come on dude, he's obviously trolling.
I don't mind first person.
Nah, I've met plenty of SJW libcucks who celebrate this commie cuck.
There a lot more than you think.
Obongo is the worst president in US history
/pol/ pls go. I don't even like obama all that much nor many of his policy decisions but you should probably read a fucking history book or grow a couple years older before you start talking this kind of shit. do you even pay taxes or vote?
Well go be a faggot about that somewhere else.
We are talking about great characters. If Obama is an amazing character for his life and how he lived it, so be it. If hes not, and people are just applying that to him because he's our president, so be it.
I don't know myself. But crying about your political animosity towards him is irrelevant here.
It would be like someone posting Jesus, and getting mad and calling them a Christian. I'm not comparing Obama to Jesus, I'm just making the point that his character isn't relevant to your beliefs ATM.
This is a greatest character of all time, and some libshit cultural marxist posted the man who shattered America as we know it.
Am I not allowed to comment on it? If so, that's solely the work of Obongo politics destroying rational discourse
He probably did it to b8 mentally challenged poltards like yourself. You got played son and you were too busy sucking the donalds cock to notice. Fuck off of lit.
You can hate Obama without being a whiny racist altright crybaby
Calling him a commie, using the word 'cuck', and then calling him 'Obongo' undermines any legitimate point you might've been able to make
go back to /pol/
seriously kill yourselves
/pol/ is always right, and we aren't afraid to speak our mind, even if it doesn't fit this hugbox ideology. We say it like it is, like Trump
>this hugbox ideology
what?
Neither Trump, polfags, Or Obama sound like good characters to me. Why can't we have a good thread? Its not like its difficult, its a decision between being on topic or being offended.
Blame the guy who posted the image to trigger /pol/acks
Thats like blaming Wendy's for advertising Ice Cream and inadvertently causing the short bus to flip over because the Down Syndrome kid flipped the fuck out when he saw the advertisement and knocked out the driver.
Alexander the Great
>Killed father
>Commanded the cavalary at 16
>Tutored by Aristotle
>Raised on Lion flesh
>Mother made his believe he was a god
>Killed best friend in drunken rage
>Burned down city in drunkey rage
>Verbally sparred with philosphers
>Possibly had father assasinated
>Killed half brother
>Had his most faithful general killed by his body-guards who rode across the desert on camels Why?
>Because he personally dispatched his son for being involved in a conspiracy.
>Bi sexual
>Killed 20,000 of his own men in a death march because they disobeyed one of his orders
>Died young
> Mother was stoned to death by enemies
> With his dying breath set in motion wars which would last centuries
His story has everything,
full of contradictions and famous people and meglamania.
If someone would put together a screen play for HBO it would sell like hotcakes
The history channel could do an excellent documentary but they'd insinuate that he fucked an alien somewhere in between.
Here are some of my favorites, maybe you'll like a couple:
>Raskolnikov and others in Crime and Punishment
>Myshkin, Nastasya, Rogozhin and others in The Idiot
>Ivan, Alyosha, and others in The Brothers Karamazov
>Achilles, Hector, Priam, and the gods in the Iliad
>Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, and Athena in the Odyssey
>Oedipus and Antigone in Sophocles' three Theban plays
>Clytemnestra and Orestes in the Oresteia and various other plays
>Don Quixote and Sancho in Don Quixote
>Satan in Paradise Lost
>Frankenstein in Frankenstein
>Brutus in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
>Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
>Ajax in Ajax (play by Euripides)
>Bazarov in Fathers and Sons
>Levin in Anna Karenina
>Orpheus, Phaethon, and Pyramus and Thisbe in Metamorphoses
This isn't really a list of characters you think are good or who reasonated with you. This a list trying to show how erudite you are to strangers on a vietnamese frog-posting image board. Please consider gassing yourself
One more that I forgot:
>Venus and Adonis in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
If I wanted to show off how erudite I am I wouldn't mostly cite characters you could find in any "top 100 must read books!" list
>Obongo is the worst president in US history
how soon we forget what a genuinely bad president looks like, just 8 years after he left office
>not Electra
me desu
(character from my diary)
kek
+1
One of the best analogies of our time.
Philoktetes.
>Ajax in Ajax (play by Euripides)
The Ajax that we have is by Sophocles.
>Antigone
>not Electra
Why not Medea? There's a character with an murky heart.
Leopold Bloom, obviously, is the deepest character ever written in literature.
Other ones that stand out to me are Dedalus, Satan, Achilles, Falstaff, Hamlet, Myshkin, Virgil (in the Divine Comedy).
Sue Bridehead.
(Are any young Estonian women reading this?)
Oh yeah, I forgot Jane Eyre. Probably the greatest female character of all time.
Jerry Cornelius
>Male:
God
Jesus
Satan
Siddhartha Gautama
Bilbo Baggins
Sam Gamgee
Jack Kerouac and his literary alter-egos
Gregor Samsa
Winston Smith
Harry Potter
Yossarian
Santiago
Harold Bloom
Tyler Durden
Big Brother
Cthulhu
HAL 9000
Aslan the Lion
Ender Wiggins
Calvin & Hobbes
The Grinch
Ignatius J. Reilly
The Cat In the Hat
Winnie-the-Pooh
Sauron
Peter Pan
George Milton and Lennie Small
Screwtape
Jay Gastby
White Fang
Tom Joad, Jr.
Josef K.
AM
Count Dracula
Mersault
>Female:
Mary Mother of Christ
Mary Magdalene
Alice (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass)
Anne of Green Gables
Joan of Arcadia
Carolyn Cassady and her literary alter-egos
Annie Wilkes
Daenerys Targaryen
Carrie White
Lucy Pevensie
Lyra Belacqua
Galadriel
Eli (from Let the Right One In)
Matilda
Wendy
Pippi Longstocking
Daisy Fay Buchanan
That's just some of them.
Daenerys Targaryen before Galadriel and Pippi? What kind of crack are you smoking?
I just wrote them out in the order they came to my mind. I do agree with you tho.