After a hectic week, suddenly all the pressure has gone, till today evening atleast. As a result, my attention has shifted to this tag by Naren to name my crushes among literary characters. Without much ado, let me start off.
1) Irene Adler - Holmes himself refers to her as "The Woman", no greater praise required.
2) Nandhini from Ponniyin Selvan - I think one of the few fictional characters in the book. The most beautiful person in the book, starts off as a villi-type character but then there seems to be enough justification for what she is doing, in the end all I felt was only sympathy for her. Very brave despite all that she had to encounter. Also helped that she grew up like an Iyengar.
3) A housewife from Mahabharata - This is from one of those many shorter stories that keep cropping up throughout the epic. This story is there in Rajaji's version. Don't remember her name, but her claim to fame is the dialogue "Did you think I was also a stork?" to one ascetic who thinks he is a stud and would have just burnt a stork to ashes with his eyes as it was disturbing him during his tapas. When the ascetic goes begging for food, this house wife is busy with household duties and so gets delayed in serving the ascetic. As a result the ascetic tries to repeat the stork magic with her. Nothing happens and the housewife replies with that line. The ascetic is impressed and then gets gyan from her and later from a butcher referred to by the housewife.
4) Tracy Whitney - This is a crush list, so how can Sidney Sheldon not be around. Tracy is the heroine of Sidney Sheldon's best book in my opinion "If Tomorrow Comes". Strong female, ofcourse beautiful, suffered initially in life, but then gets pretty crafty and ingenious.
5)Dors Venabili - from Prelude to the Foundation. Stud female who accompanies and protects the father of Psychohistory, Hari Seldon. Probably the only properly etched out female character in the entire Foundation series. Agreed she is later shown to be a robot, but by that time, I had already started liking Dors, just like Hari had also done.
6) Melanie Wilkes - From Gone With the Wind. The most good natured person I have come across in the course of my readings. She even manages to change some of the attitudes of the selfish and self-centred Scarlett.
Thats all I can think of for now. I have left out comics as there the ability of the illustrator also plays a major part in my liking or disliking a character.
1) Irene Adler - Holmes himself refers to her as "The Woman", no greater praise required.
2) Nandhini from Ponniyin Selvan - I think one of the few fictional characters in the book. The most beautiful person in the book, starts off as a villi-type character but then there seems to be enough justification for what she is doing, in the end all I felt was only sympathy for her. Very brave despite all that she had to encounter. Also helped that she grew up like an Iyengar.
3) A housewife from Mahabharata - This is from one of those many shorter stories that keep cropping up throughout the epic. This story is there in Rajaji's version. Don't remember her name, but her claim to fame is the dialogue "Did you think I was also a stork?" to one ascetic who thinks he is a stud and would have just burnt a stork to ashes with his eyes as it was disturbing him during his tapas. When the ascetic goes begging for food, this house wife is busy with household duties and so gets delayed in serving the ascetic. As a result the ascetic tries to repeat the stork magic with her. Nothing happens and the housewife replies with that line. The ascetic is impressed and then gets gyan from her and later from a butcher referred to by the housewife.
4) Tracy Whitney - This is a crush list, so how can Sidney Sheldon not be around. Tracy is the heroine of Sidney Sheldon's best book in my opinion "If Tomorrow Comes". Strong female, ofcourse beautiful, suffered initially in life, but then gets pretty crafty and ingenious.
5)Dors Venabili - from Prelude to the Foundation. Stud female who accompanies and protects the father of Psychohistory, Hari Seldon. Probably the only properly etched out female character in the entire Foundation series. Agreed she is later shown to be a robot, but by that time, I had already started liking Dors, just like Hari had also done.
6) Melanie Wilkes - From Gone With the Wind. The most good natured person I have come across in the course of my readings. She even manages to change some of the attitudes of the selfish and self-centred Scarlett.
Thats all I can think of for now. I have left out comics as there the ability of the illustrator also plays a major part in my liking or disliking a character.
8 comments:
Out of Sidney Sheldon characters, Tracy Whitney and Paige Taylor are adorable.
And that Stork story, I have heard it as Thiruvalluvar's wife Vasuki! Does it really come in the Mahabharata?
I'm not sure but I've heard similar rumours that it does.
@Naren and Ranjit
It does come in Rajaji's Mahabharata. I read it there only.
nandhini was one bitch! most of the time u see her through the eyes of vandhiyathevan who has some kind of wicked attraction to her and she also has a soft corner in her heart for him...so she's always super nice, sweet etc otherwise she was evil only
Guhan
Nandhini was an obvious choice for you...I didnt know you liked Melanie so much....
How about the Alibaba woman (Margiana ??) who saves him from many dangers ?? Maybe, after she crosses 18 years you can include Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) on to the list :-D. Any case, I am glad you don't have Xena, The Warrior Princess in that list.
@Guhan
I liked her bitchiness too. Even till the end, we weren't sure as to whether Nandhini was a "nallava or kettava".
@Mayura
I didn't like Scarlett and Melanie was in total contrast to her.
@Arun
Ali Baba have seen only on TV, so did not come into the picture at all. And I don't like Hermione, but Emma Watson surely does rock.
I am sorry to say this, but, "A(the) housewife from Mahabharata", Saavithri, Agaligai, Kannagi, Vasugi are not ideal wives/women. Its bewildering to see people still adulating them!
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