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Anonymous Tue May 12 14:41:59 2015 No.6530825 [Reply] [Original]

Who do you guys think it’s the most profound of all fictional characters? The one whose mind and inner life is most completely exposed (be it by his/her own words, or gestures, or the words the narrator makes about him/she, or his/her actions, and probably by the communion of all those factors)?

Try not to name some particular character only because you identify with him/her, or because you like the style of the author or creator. And don’t be servant to clichés and traditional opinions. Answer with sincerity.

Also: if you have the time, try to explain why you picked the name that you picked.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:45:47 2015 No.6530845 File: 458 KB, 800x454, 2012-01-13_image1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hagbard Celine.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:45:51 2015 No.6530846 Leopold Bloom (Ulysses - Joyce) t. Harold Bloom

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:47:22 2015 No.6530850 >>6530846 I think this has to be the answer.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:50:10 2015 No.6530860 >The Cather in the Rye, Holden Caulfield >Moby Dick, Pip >Moby Dick, The Carpenter >Moby Dick, Ahab

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 14:52:19 2015 No.6530865 Hamlet

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 16:10:23 2015 No.6531178 >>6530846 Funny, I would've said Stephen Daedalus from the combination of Portrait and Ulysses. A character who reeks of sad failure with no one to blame but himself.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 16:13:52 2015 No.6531198 File: 35 KB, 316x500, the unconsoled.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ryder

Anonymous Tue May 12 16:19:06 2015 No.6531216

>>6530825
underground man, maybe? but your first sentence doesn't line up with your second. a character can be profound without being totally exposed. in man underground, for example, we can never get to the bottom of things because it's told from his perspective

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:39:12 2015 No.6531663 >>6531216 I think OP means that a character can be profound without being exposed, but would be more profound by being more exposed.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:45:52 2015 No.6531690 File: 209 KB, 784x564, Mantegna.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why, Our Lord and Savior of course.

Anonymous Tue May 12 17:46:46 2015 No.6531694

Would you gents mind overlooking a little writing of mine, as the thread caught my eye I realised it was an issue I've been coming across in my writing - that I rather show through telling, by narrative device, in order to merge the subjective/objective perspective into what could be called a weaving of perspectives so allowing the reader the freedom to judge the statements made as is, as opposed to having to decipher laborious details into meaning - it requires pre-participation, for the reader to draw on their own experiences upon meditating on the words, instead of being fed them like baby birds-- so would anyone mind having a look over a paragraph and telling me whether I'm way off the mark or what I could be doing to more involve you in the interpretation?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:48:38 2015 No.6531703 >>6531694 >>6502067

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:53:19 2015 No.6531724 >>6531703 That's a fair enough redirection - I only asked here because the topic of the thread seemed related - that saying profundity of character can be relative to narrative style..and that is an issue I've been tackling the last few days.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:54:52 2015 No.6531732 >>6531198 Man, I need to reread that book

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 17:59:35 2015 No.6531746 >>6531690 He got speared LOL

>>	Muck J.J. Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu Tue May 12 18:02:16 2015 No.6531760 File: 197 KB, 700x1091, a howlin' good read.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6530825 cosimo piovasco, naturally

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 18:49:45 2015 No.6531933 Leto 2 is a pretty complex character

:^) sadman400 Tue May 12 19:24:47 2015 No.6532054

in grade school i read jerry spinelli's loser, and related so intensely to the main character, and was so vividly immersed in his isolation, that i had a complete mental breakdown and cried for hours.

i didn't make it to the part where he is saved and the other kids start respecting him.

so i guess him?

>>	Muck J.J. Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu Tue May 12 19:40:20 2015 No.6532103 File: 114 KB, 405x469, 453914234234.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6532054 >Try not to name some particular character only because you identify with him/her the trash levels are off the charts

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:53:14 2015 No.6532148 Define profound. What do you even mean by this question? Nonetheless my answer is Hamlet. Or one of Shakespeare's characters.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 12 19:57:02 2015 No.6532163 >>6530825 levin

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