Who's the greatest character in fiction?

Who's the greatest character in fiction?

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falstaff

You posted him

God from The Bible

What makes Hamlet the greatest in your opinion?

> Ahahahhahahahahhah look at me i post 2009-tier atheist jokes ahahahha

Dante

Not even him, but creating a God with the personality of a human being (and an extremely bilious and unpleasant human being) and using the work of several authors in a series of different books for flesh him out was a great invention. He's really a memorable character (of course, he looks a lot like a bitter old Jew living in the desert, angry with and envious off the superpowers of the time and lamenting the disgusting people living around him, so it can't be said to be that original: it's a self-portrayal of the authors).

Even if the comedy has great verses Dante as a characters is boring as hell, as are most of the characters in the comedy (but especially Dante)

I don't really care for the psychological ramblings of post medieval characters, desu.

He's a coward who gets mogged by Fortinbras and Laertes

Milton's Satan

Anna Karenina.

How interesting can a character with nothing in jeopardy even be? God, by his very nature must be a 1 dimensional character.

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Strong Belwas

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Goethe’s Faust

Achilles

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Odysseus without question

Hurr durr I maaaaaad me maaaaad i wrath lol so awesome oopsie I git shod

I would bet on that if he had a lot of monologues and the exposition of his inner life. Sadly that was not a common feature of literature at that time

>falling for the modern psychological meme
You will never understand classic antiquity.

I do understand, but I don't think it was better that way. People had thoughts and inner mind-working since the dawn of time.

Don't be a douche

Start with Lukács' Theory of the novel. That will introduce you to why it is that way.

That is where you are wrong. Read "The Discovery of the Mind", by Bruno Snell.
Φρενες does not mean the same in Homer and in Plato, for example.

The same happens with ψυχή and other core concepts regarding the mind.

You do realize that the Gods are symbols of the innerworkings of the mind, right?

the Underground Man

>Lukács
Leftist fag

i think it was just how people understood the subconscious back then. when people want to do one thing but end up doing another, it was explained as meddling gods. thats just my guess, i havent read anything on the subject

Monsieur Humbert Humbert

Kvothe

Read Joseph Campbell or Jung's Man and His Symbols

The Gods represent the dominant values of each character's psyche and their strengths and follies. Paris is ruled by love which is why Aphrodite is his patron god and wisks him to safety- because he values his love for Helen and his life more than honor they're dualities love leads to cowardice. Achilles is ruled by his wrath which is the negative side to his warfare and his patron is Athena. His strength is his weakness. And Odesseus is cunning which leads to hubris the negative side of cunning and he is punished by Poseidon who represents nature. It's the classic man vs nature and man's hubris in thinking he can conquer it entirely. His innerworkings are fairly obvious otherwise. He's a high power level hero who is also very smart and that leads to his ten year struggle of getting home.

I like to joke that Cast Away were if Odesseus were a pussy and Tom Hanks should have killed the wife's suitor and reclaimed woman and throne.

Such a teenager, early 20s self proclaimed intellectual fucking answer right here.

isnt athena also ullysses god?

She's god of war AND wisdom. Zeus was on Odesseus' side too.

>hamlet
when will they learn?

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Faust

Jesus Christ

Christ is boring. A hero without flaws makes for a shit character.

karl ove knausgaard

we are the multiplicity to God's one dimension; God lacks no lack, nor illusion, nor faith, all by us, the God in play with its self. Amen

Got it, finite point jacking off.

based retard

Me and (You)

Came here to post this

seething

Does this mean Aeneas is a fag? Or just a momma's boy?

Either Hermes Marama or Cosimo Barone.

Yossarian

>not the soldier in white

Roman garbage

lmao

Greg Hefley

Major Major Major is a much better candidate

Faust

U saying wat u son of basterd bitch

The Aenid was a weird bastardization that worshiped the Roman state like a good little romecuck rather than being about the human individual.

Hal Incandenza

It's obviously the duo Don Quixote and Sancho Pança

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underrated

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Beat me to it user. Falstaff is the life force. Have you seen Orson Welles’ Chimes At Midnight?

Don't know about the best ever, but I'd go with Richard III as Shakespeare's best one.

It was a propaganda ordered by Augustus.

very nice perspective, thank.
in the metric of how much the characters changed people's lives, god is number one

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