Guest W***ledi*Time Report post Posted October 13, 2010 If you were a character from literature or fiction, who would you be? My good friend Cato was just quoting Puck to me from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Suddenly I realized that I myself might very well be Nick Bottom from the same play. Bottom is of course the rustic weaver who plays Pyramus in the play-within-a play Pyramus and Thisbe. Bottom's an extrovert, so in that respect I'm his exact opposite. But Bottom also messes up his lines, so that fits me very well. But the most striking thing about Bottom is that he is the only character in the play who manages to cross back and forth, between the human and fairy worlds. Memorably, Puck gives him an ass's head. Meanwhile, the spell-bound Titania, Queen of the Fairies, has been given a love-potion by the jealous Oberon. Titania therefore falls in love with the donkey-headed Bottom as soon as she sets eyes on him. Much merriment ensues. Bottom is then returned to his former, fully-human, self. He sagely decides that "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was."(4.1.202-203) Well said Bottom! That's just like I feel every time I return to the real world after a rendezvous with a special Cerb lady. None of which should be taken to imply that the fairy-world is any less real than the human-world, neither. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cato 160314 Report post Posted October 13, 2010 Great thread idea, WIT! And I would be Puck, if I could be any character. The messenger, the intermediary, the trickster.... "And those things do best please me That befall preposterously." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cleo Catra 178382 Report post Posted October 13, 2010 Ahhhh, A Midsummer Nights Dream, my favorite! The fairyland buys not the child of me... oh Titania. I had to do that piece in university. Anyway, I don't think I could possibly answer this question. Too many characters, too many books. I could maybe think of bits of different characters I'd love to say I'd be, but there's no way to pick just one! Yep...and there I go, letting everyone see I'm a huge Shakespeare and literature nerd. Anyone else catching Romeo and Juliet at the NAC? I can't wait! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest W***ledi*Time Report post Posted October 13, 2010 ... Anyone else catching Romeo and Juliet at the NAC? I can't wait! No, but I saw R&J at Shakespeare in High Park in Toronto this summer. Good Clean Fun. Staged as if it was a play-within-a-play, occuring in a modern-day Verona Railroad Station. Ron Kennell almost stole the show, playing the Nurse (!) and Balthasar. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antlerman 17064 Report post Posted October 13, 2010 E-ore....from Whinny the Pooh................ Does that count? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest W***ledi*Time Report post Posted October 13, 2010 E-ore....from Whinny the Pooh................ Does that count? Eeyore is one of the great characters of the 20th Century! (I had a friend in university that I swear was Eeyore reincarnated in every way.) A two-edged Eeyore quote: "So it does!" said Pooh. "It goes in!" "So it does!" said Piglet. "And it comes out!" "Doesn't it?" said Eeyore. "It goes in and out like anything." (Winnie the Pooh, Ch. VI) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest s******ecan**** Report post Posted October 13, 2010 I would choose Alessandro Giuliani the protagonist in Mark Helprin's "A Soldier of the Great War" A wonderful novel, not a war story, this book imbued me with a love for Italy and italian food in particular. I highly recommend the book, and any of the other many magnificent novels written by Helprin. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest S**a*Q Report post Posted October 13, 2010 I'm like the Choose Your Own Adventure Heroine :) My path changes with every page it seems... But I keep my finger in the book, so I never die!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bucky501 923 Report post Posted October 13, 2010 Probably a Huck Finn of Mark Twain lore. But I would love to be a Jason Bourne ...--oh well--back to reality and Huck Finn!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antlerman 17064 Report post Posted October 13, 2010 thank you my dear friend......thank you:bowdown: Eeyore is one of the great characters of the 20th Century! (I had a friend in university that I swear was Eeyore reincarnated in every way.) A two-edged Eeyore quote: "So it does!" said Pooh. "It goes in!" "So it does!" said Piglet. "And it comes out!" "Doesn't it?" said Eeyore. "It goes in and out like anything." (Winnie the Pooh, Ch. VI) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LuxeMulvari 65764 Report post Posted October 16, 2010 Sayuri in Memoirs of a Geisha....she and I are very alike I think.... Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair as well..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
72Nova 116 Report post Posted October 16, 2010 Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with a bit of Frank Wheeler from Revolutionary Road thrown in for good measure. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest f***2f*** Report post Posted October 16, 2010 James Bond......shaken not stirred!! lol Ian Fleming rocks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest e**m***h Report post Posted October 16, 2010 Since there is already a lot of Shakespeare on this thread - these days I think it would be fun to be Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure. Hey WIT, with all the court cases going on might be a good time to put on a CERB players adaptation here in Ottawa - give Joy Smith a free front row seat, (or maybe she is already playing the role of Angelo). Amazing how some issues never go away! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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spud271 47779 Report post Posted October 16, 2010 Samkin Aylward, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's two best books, The White Company and Sir Nigel. Loyal, true, courageous, loves women, fights with a smile on his face and a wicked sense of humour...he is a character that has always been near and dear to my heart. He was also Doyle's favorite character from all of his books. Even more so than Sherlock Holmes! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ***nsut***jr Report post Posted October 16, 2010 Tom Joad - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck A book I read every couple of years. It helps keep one grounded. J Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest G***f****** Report post Posted October 16, 2010 Harry Dresden, even though he gets the crap kicked out of him much of the time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hunknhot 1067 Report post Posted October 16, 2010 Frodo.. conflicted, determined, simple yet complicated Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Meg O'Ryan 266444 Report post Posted October 16, 2010 (edited) Elizabeth (Lizzy) Bennett of Pride and Prejudice. She is witty, provocative and full of life! Edited October 16, 2010 by Meg O'Ryan Had to hunt down my copy to see how they spelled her nickname Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PistolPete 61421 Report post Posted October 16, 2010 Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" A most upright character, representing the moral ideal of both a lawyer and a human being he is brutally honest, highly moral, extremely opinionated a tireless crusader for good causes........ ....My good causes are of course the gorgeous women here on CERB ;) LOL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites