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| x Napoleon | Animal Farm |
Napoleon is a fictional character and the main antagonist in George Orwell's Animal Farm. While he is at first a common farm pig, he gets rid of Snowball, another pig which shares the power. He then takes advantage of the animals' uprising against...
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| x Snowball | Animal Farm |
Snowball is a fictional pig in the book Animal Farm written by George Orwell. He is based on Leon Trotsky.
Snowball believes in a continued revolution: he argues that in order to defend Animal Farm and strengthen the reality of Old Major's dream of...
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| x Squealer | Animal Farm |
Squealer is a fictional pig from George Orwell's Animal Farm. He is described in the book to be an effective and very convincing orator.
Throughout the novel Squealer is highly skilled at making speeches to the animals. He is also one of the leaders...
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| x Boxer | Animal Farm |
Boxer is a fictional character in George Orwell's Animal Farm. He is described as the farm's most hard-working and loyal laborer. Boxer serves as an allegory for the Russian working-class who helped to oust the Tsar Nicholas and establish the Soviet...
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| x Old Major | Animal Farm |
Old Major (also called Willingdon Beauty, his name used when showing) is the first major character described by George Orwell in Animal Farm. This "purebred" of pigs is a kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change. According to Christopher Hitchens: ...
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| x Pilkington | Animal Farm |
Mr Pilkington of Foxwood Farm is a fictional character in George Orwell's satirical book Animal Farm.
Pilkington is based on Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt. Mr Pilkington has a larger but more unkempt farm, and is on bad terms with Mr...
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| x Benjamin | Animal Farm |
Benjamin is a donkey in George Orwell's novella Animal Farm. He is a donkey, as well as the oldest of all the animals, and is alive in the last scene of the novel. He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel and a number of...
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| x Jones | Animal Farm |
Mr Jones of Manor Farm is a human character in George Orwell's allegorical novel Animal Farm. Jones is an allegory for Tsar Nicholas II. Jones was overthrown by the animals of his farm, who represent Bolshevik and liberal revolutionaries.
Mr Jones...
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| x The genie that haunts the moonbeams | Memory | |||
| x The daemon of the valley | Memory | |||
| x Kilgore Trout | Slaughterhouse-Five |
Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. He was originally created as a fictionalized version of author Theodore Sturgeon (Vonnegut's colleague in the genre of science fiction—Vonnegut was amused by the notion of a...
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| Jailbird | ||||
| God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | ||||
| Breakfast of Champions | ||||
| x Signora Psyche Zenobia | A Predicament | |||
| x Thingum Bob | The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. | |||
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| x Hop-Frog | Hop-Frog | |||
| x Trippetta | Hop-Frog | |||
| x Robert Langdon |
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The Da Vinci Code |
Robert Langdon is a fictional Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology (a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols, which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of Semiotics). The...
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| The Lost Symbol | ||||
| x Holden Caulfield | The Catcher in the Rye | |||
| x Bud White | L.A. Confidential | |||
| x Dudley Liam Smith | The Big Nowhere |
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...
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| L.A. Confidential | ||||
| White Jazz | ||||
| The Black Dahlia | ||||
| x Charles Marlow | Heart of Darkness | |||
| x Hoard Roark | ||||
| x Hagbard Celine | The Illuminatus! Trilogy |
Captain Hagbard Celine is a fictional character from the Illuminatus trilogy of books/prophecies 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...
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| x Saul Goodman | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | |||
| The Golden Apple | ||||
| The Eye in the Pyramid | ||||
| Leviathan Illuminatus | ||||
| x Barney Muldoon | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | |||
| The Golden Apple | ||||
| The Eye in the Pyramid | ||||
| Leviathan Illuminatus | ||||
| x George Dorn | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | |||
| x Yog-Sothoth |
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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. The being was created by H.P. Lovecraft and first appeared in his...
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| x Ignatius J Reilly | A Confederacy of Dunces | |||
| x William of Baskerville | The Name of the Rose |
William of Baskerville (Italian: Guglielmo da 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,...
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| x Adso of Melk | The Name of the Rose | |||
| x Toran Darell | Foundation and Empire | |||
| x Ebling Mis | Foundation and Empire |
Ebling Mis is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. Specifically, he is one of the main characters from the latter half of the novel Foundation and Empire. Mis is the Foundation's greatest psychologist and a very prominent...
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| x Hari Seldon | Foundation |
Hari Seldon, a fictional character, is the intellectual hero of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. In his capacity as mathematics professor at Streeling University on Trantor, he developed psychohistory, allowing him to predict the future in...
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| x Salvor Hardin | Foundation |
Salvor Hardin is a fictional character who appears in two parts of Isaac Asimov's novel Foundation. The two parts were initially published as short stories before being published in novel form. Hardin is the first mayor of Terminus City, the sole...
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| x Gaal Dornick | Foundation |
Gaal Dornick is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. It is Gaal Dornick that introduces the Foundation series, appearing in the first chapter of Foundation, describing his meeting with Hari Seldon. He eventually went on to be...
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| x Jacob Two-Two | Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang |
Jacob Two-Two is the central character in a series of children's books, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975), Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur (1987) and Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case (1995) written by Mordecai Richler, and Jacob Two-Two on the...
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| x HAL 9000 | 3001: The Final Odyssey |
HAL 9000 is a character in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction Space Odyssey saga. The primary antagonist in 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is an artificial intelligence that interacts with the astronaut...
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| 2061: Odyssey Three | ||||
| 2010: Odyssey Two | ||||
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | ||||
| x Philip Marlowe | The Big Sleep | The Pencil |
Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler in a series of novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep published in 1939. Chandler's early short stories,...
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| The Long Goodbye | ||||
| Poodle Springs | ||||
| The Lady in the Lake | ||||
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| x Jay Gatsby | The Great Gatsby |
Jay Gatsby (born James Gatz) is the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The character has become an archetype of self-made American men seeking to join high society, and the name has become synonymous with...
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| x Rick Deckard | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Rick Deckard is the protagonist in Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and also the 1982 film adaptation Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott. The cinematic version of the character Deckard is played by the actor Harrison...
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| x Paul Edgecombe | The Green Mile | |||
| x John Coffey | The Green Mile | |||
| x Eduard Delacroix | The Green Mile | |||
| x William Wharton | The Green Mile | |||
| x Mr. Jingles | The Green Mile | |||
| x The Little Prince | The Little Prince |
The Little Prince is the fictional title character of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous book.
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| x Tom Buchanan | The Great Gatsby |
Tom Buchanan is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Daisy Buchanan | The Great Gatsby |
Daisy Buchanan is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Nick Carraway | The Great Gatsby |
Nick Carraway is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby. He serves as the story's narrator.
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| x Henry Gatz | The Great Gatsby | |||
| x Myrtle Wilson | The Great Gatsby |
Myrtle Wilson is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Jordan Baker | The Great Gatsby | |||
| x Aral Vorkosigan | Shards of Honor |
Aral Vorkosigan is a fictitious character from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga series. Known throughout this science fiction universe as “The Butcher of Komarr,” he dominates the imagination of the two main point-of-view characters in the...
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| Memory | ||||
| The Warrior's Apprentice | ||||
| x Miles Vorkosigan | Diplomatic Immunity | Borders of Infinity |
Miles Naismith Vorkosigan is the hero of a series of science fiction novels and short stories by Lois McMaster Bujold known as the Vorkosigan Saga. In an article in The Vorkosigan Companion, Bujold acknowledged several real-life inspirations for the...
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| Winterfair Gifts | Labyrinth | |||
| Memory | ||||
| The Vor Game | ||||
| A Civil Campaign | ||||
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| x Count Piotr Vorkosigan |
Count Piotr Vorkosigan is the father of Aral Vorkosigan and the grandfather of Miles Vorkosigan in the fictitious universe of the Vorkosigan Saga.
At the time of his death in The Warrior's Apprentice, Piotr's full title was General Count Piotr...
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| x Pozzo |
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Waiting for Godot |
Pozzo is a character from Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. His name is Italian for "well" (as in "oil well").
On the surface he is a pompous, sometimes foppish, aristocrat (he claims to live in a manor, own many slaves and a Steinway piano)...
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| x Lucky |
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Waiting for Godot |
Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is a slave to the character Pozzo.
Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly: he only utters two sentences (one of which is more than seven hundred words...
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| x Estragon | Waiting for Godot |
Estragon (affectionately Gogo; he tells Pozzo his name is Adam) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is the French word for tarragon.
Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the two main...
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| x Vladimir | Waiting for Godot |
Vladimir (affectionately known as Didi; a small boy calls him Mr. Albert) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
The "optimist" (and, as Beckett put it, "the major character") of Godot, he represents the...
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| x Esther Greenwood | The Bell Jar |
Esther Greenwood is the main character of Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar.
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