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Napoleon   Topic Animal Farm  
Napoleon is a fictional character in George Orwell's Animal Farm. While he is at first a common farm pig, he takes advantage of the animals' uprising against their masters to eventually become the tyrannical "President of Animal Farm," which he turns into a totalitarianism. Napoleon was based on Joseph Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years. However, his name comes from that of the French general Napoleon Bonaparte. In the French version of the book, he was renamed César ...
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Snowball   Topic Animal Farm  
Snowball is a fictional pig in the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell. Together with the pig Napoleon, Snowball leads the animals' revolt against the human farmer, but is driven away from the farm (a comparison to the Russian government) by his former comrade Napoleon in the later part of the story. Unlike Napoleon, he has the best interests of the animals in mind. He is most attuned to the thinking of Old Major (whose role resembles that of Vladimir Lenin or perhaps Karl Marx and...
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Squealer   Topic Animal Farm  
Squealer is a fictional pig from George Orwell's Animal Farm, primarily inspired by Joseph Stalin's aide Vyacheslav Molotov also figuratively as propaganda. In the allegorical form chosen by Orwell for Animal Farm, the pigs are easily identified with the Soviet leaders of the time. Napoleon and Snowball clearly represent Stalin and Trotsky, respectively. However, for those unfamiliar with the Soviet hierarchy in the 1930s and 1940s, Squealer's human counterpart may be obscure. Some have...
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Boxer   Topic Animal Farm  
Boxer is a fiction horse from George Orwell's Animal Farm, he is the farm's most hard-working and loyal worker. He serves as an allegory for the Russian working class who helped oust the Czar and establish the Soviet Union, but were eventually betrayed by the Stalinists. Boxer is one of the most popular of the book's characters. Boxer is the tragic avatar of the working class, or proletariat: loyal, kind, dedicated, and strong. By contrast, he is not very clever and seldom progresses beyond...
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Old Major   Topic Animal Farm  
Old Major (also called Willingdon Beauty, his show name) is the first major character described by George Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is the kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change; an obvious metaphor for Karl Marx, though some elements of Old Major are directly from Vladimir Lenin. Old Major proposes a solution to the animals' desperate plight under the Jones' "administration" (representing the tsar and autocracy) when he inspires a rebellion of sorts among the animals....
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Pilkington   Topic Animal Farm  
Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood Farm is a human character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm. Mr. Pilkington has a more unkept farm, and is on bad terms with Mr. Frederick of Pinchfield Farm, whose farm is on the opposite side of Animal Farm. Mr. Pilkington at first offered to buy Napoleon's pile of timber, but the timber is "bought" (with counterfeit banknotes) by Frederick instead. When Frederick invades Animal Farm, Pilkington refuses to help the animals (primarily because the messages...
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Benjamin   Topic Animal Farm  
In George Orwell's novel Animal Farm, Benjamin is a donkey that represents the aged population of Russia. It has also been suggested that he represents the Menshevik intelligentsia: as intelligent, if not more so, than the novel's pigs. He is very cynical about the Revolution and life in general. For the most part he represents the skeptical people in and out of Russia who believed that Communism would not help the people of Russia, but who did not criticise it fervently enough to lose their...
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Jones Pete Postlethwaite played Jones in the 1999 film adaption of Animal Farm Topic Animal Farm  
Mr. Jones of Manor Farm was a human character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm. Mr. Jones was overthrown by the animal of the farm early in the book for his harsh rule over the animals. Instigated by Old Major, the animals rebelled against Mr. Jones and removed him from power, supposedly ending the days of extreme hunger and labor. Mr. Jones attempted to reinstate himself in the farm by attacking the animals; a skirmish the animals later called the Battle of the Cowshed. He was...
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The genie that haunts the moonbeams   Book Character   Memory  
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The daemon of the valley   Book Character   Memory  
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Kilgore Trout Topic Breakfast of Champions  
Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. He was originally created as a fictionalized verson of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction), although Trout's consistent presence in Vonnegut's works has also led critics to view him as the author's own "alter ego." Trout is also the titular "author" of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell, written pseudonymously by Philip José Farmer. In 1957, Theodore Sturgeon moved to Truro,...
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Signora Psyche Zenobia   Book Character   A Predicament  
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Thingum Bob   Book Character   The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.  
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Hop-Frog   Book Character   Hop-Frog  
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Trippetta   Book Character   Hop-Frog  
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Robert Langdon Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu (Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou) in the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code Topic The Da Vinci Code  
Robert Langdon (June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States) is a fictional professor of religious iconology and symbology at Harvard University who appeared in the Dan Brown novels Angels and Demons (2000) and The Da Vinci Code (2003). He is scheduled to be the lead character in an upcoming third novel tentatively entitled Widow's Son: The Solomon Key. Tom Hanks portrayed Robert Langdon in the 2006 film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, and will reprise the role in the upcoming...
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Holden Caulfield   Book Character The Catcher in the Rye    
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Bud White   Book Character L.A. Confidential    
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Dudley Liam Smith   Topic L.A. Confidential  
Dudley Liam Smith (1905 - ?), is a fictional character in several novels by American novelist James Ellroy. Smith was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1905, and later immigrated to the United States, where he joined the LAPD in 1928. Smith was the clandestine protector of two rival criminal families, the Herricks and the Kafesjians, in the 1930s, in 1942 murdered Joe Diaz in the famous Sleepy Lagoon murder case. He is first mentioned in "The Big Nowhere", which is set in 1950, where he is recruited...
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Charles Marlow   Book Character Heart of Darkness    
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Hagbard Celine   Topic The Illuminatus! Trilogy  
Freeman Hagbard Celine, H.M., S.H. (Holy Man, Shit Head) is a central protagonist in the Illuminatus trilogy of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, named after the legendary Viking hero Hagbard who died for love. In the Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, the sequel to Illuminatus!, it is stated that 'Hagbard Celine' is a pseudonym, and his legal name is 'Howard Crane'. However, given the fact that the trilogy passes through many very different universes, it may be, and seems likely in light...
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Saul Goodman   Book Character The Illuminatus! Trilogy    
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Barney Muldoon   Book Character The Illuminatus! Trilogy    
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George Dorn   Book Character The Illuminatus! Trilogy    
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Yog-Sothoth 요그-쇼토스 Topic The Illuminatus! Trilogy The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Yog-Sothoth (The Lurker at the Threshold, The Key and the Gate, The Beyond One, Opener of the Way, The All-in-One and the One-in-All) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos and the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. Yog-Sothoth's name was first mentioned in his novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (written 1927, first published 1941). The being is said to take the form of a conglomeration of glowing bubbles. Yog-Sothoth is an Outer God and is coterminous with all time and space yet is...
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Ignatius J Reilly   Book Character A Confederacy of Dunces    
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William of Baskerville A poster of The Name of The Rose, depicting James Bond actor Sean Connery as Brother William of Baskerville Topic The Name of the Rose  
William of Baskerville is a fictional Franciscan friar from the novel Il Nome Della Rosa (The Name of the Rose) by Umberto Eco. Brother William was an inquisitor, who presided at some trials in England and Italy, where he distinguished himself by his perspicacity along with great humility. In numerous cases he decided the accused was innocent. Later he left the job as an inquisitor. In the 1986 movie The Name of the Rose, Sean Connery played the role of Brother William of Baskerville. The...
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Adso of Melk   Book Character The Name of the Rose    
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