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Post by Lu on Apr 16, 2008 4:02:34 GMT -5
I stole the name (and the idea) for this thread from Thursday Next serie: www.thursdaynext.com/jurisfiction/glossaryc.htmlSo, have you ever found a character who looks suspiciously like another?? even if not from the same author.
I'll start. When I was reading Childhood, Boyhood and Youth by Tolstoy there was a Latin professor (when the protagonist is taking an exam) that reminded me a bit of Severus Snape. "bilious-looking man with hair long and greasy and a face expressive of extraordinary sullenness" I don't even know why...perhaps for the long, greasy hair.. ;D
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Post by Juliet on Apr 16, 2008 5:49:20 GMT -5
I love this thread!I'm going to think about it !
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Post by oureternity on Apr 16, 2008 10:19:14 GMT -5
Great thread! I'll think about it too
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Apr 24, 2008 7:11:53 GMT -5
I'll think about this too. Very fun! This also reminds me of a blog post I read a few months ago, about how there's an abundance of red haired kids in children's literature. Much higher of a percentage of red hair than is actually found in the human population.
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Post by Lu on Apr 24, 2008 8:23:23 GMT -5
I'll think about this too. Very fun! This also reminds me of a blog post I read a few months ago, about how there's an abundance of red haired kids in children's literature. Much higher of a percentage of red hair than is actually found in the human population. Really? that's interesting! I guess the Harry Potter serie has increased the percentage
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Post by Isa on May 1, 2008 7:40:48 GMT -5
From the same author, but don't you think Marianne from Sense & Sensibility has a lot in common with Louisa Musgrove from Persuasion?
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Post by oureternity on May 2, 2008 2:31:47 GMT -5
I actually had Anne Elliot and Marianne in mind... but now that you mention it I do think there's something in common between them!
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Post by Katelyn on May 2, 2008 21:32:13 GMT -5
The characters of Joe March and Anne Shirley always appealed to me for the same reasons, I think. I can definitely see the similarities between them, but there are differences between them too. I love the fact that they're both intelligent, witty, quick tempered, and passionate characters, they both speak before they think sometimes, they're both dreamers, they both move away from home (Joe travels to New York, and Anne Shirley travels to Charlottetown), and they're both struggling to be writers. I don't mean to suggest though that they're modeled after one another. And I'm sure there's other similarities between them, which I haven't mentioned.
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Post by neh on May 2, 2008 22:19:08 GMT -5
Katelyn, i swear - you just spoke my mind. Exactly. Word-for-word. I think you are my new best friend. *offers cake* To go along that vein, i see a few similarities between young Laurie and Gilbert Blythe... just in their intelligence, their unrequited love/lust, their boyish good humor etc. But Gil gets his girl in the end... poor Laurie doesnt! *i never approved of him resorting to Amy, personally*
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Post by Katelyn on May 3, 2008 22:28:29 GMT -5
Yummy! I hope it's made with Rolling Reliable's cake batter. You're right, I can definitely see the similarities between Teddy and Gil too. And Amy's sweet, but...she's not Joe. I think I would have preferred to see Laurie with Beth, had she lived, or even with Meg, had she not married his tutor, than with Amy. I wonder if Amy was the last substitute for Joe? I have the feeling I'm being too harsh on Amy though. Secretly, she always annoyed me. I think that Laurie and Amy's shared vanity does not make them a good couple.
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Post by Katelyn on May 3, 2008 22:33:07 GMT -5
But I can easily overlook the fact that they're a couple because overall, the plot is excellent and if they weren't a couple, then the plot would be drastically different, and the novel would no longer resemble the Little Women that I love so much. (On a side note, I'm actually surprised that Teddy wanted to marry so soon, since he seems more of the bachelor type to me.)
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Post by Katelyn on May 3, 2008 22:34:52 GMT -5
What do you think of the relationship between Joe and the Professor? Would you have paired them off?
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Post by Dominique on May 5, 2008 5:52:21 GMT -5
Having just finished Mansfield Park, I'd like to say that Fanny reminded me quite a bit of Jane Eyre. They both have the mouse-like shy thing going on, and the passive, submissive yet morally irreprehensible and unmoveable tendancies.
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Post by neh on May 5, 2008 7:09:57 GMT -5
That's an interesting point and I'd agree on that Dom, though i do think that Jane had a tad more outward OOMPH than Fanny, not to put her down though, coz i feel too many people do. No one else may agree on this, as it just popped into my head, but if you know Northanger Abbey, i feel for some reason that Isabella reminds me of Cathy from Wuthering Heights, as does Gwendolyn from Daniel Deronda. Something about being innately selfish and wilful and thus harming people and ending up in a pitiful situation yourself, yet never being deliberately being cruel, so to speak... i don't know.. it just occurred to me then. And Katelyn, rest assured your cake DOES contain Rollings Reliable, for who would use any other?! hehe. On the subject of Little Women, check your pms - i don't want to be in trouble with Dom or Jefie for rambling on! *cuddles to you both*
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Post by Dominique on May 5, 2008 7:12:59 GMT -5
hehe. On the subject of Little Women, check your pms - i don't want to be in trouble with Dom or Jefie for rambling on! *cuddles to you both* Renee! You know we don't do that kind of thing here! You should just post it other Little Women fans (who have read the book unlike me) might be interested You're right Jane does have a lot more OOMPH, but they struck me as very similar
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