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Which minor characters do we not love!?
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Sep 03, 2012 07:17AM
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Well I love to hate:Willoughby
Lady Catherine
Mr. Collins
Frank Churchill
Mrs. Elton
Mrs. Jennings
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Love to hate...
Wickham
Mr Collins
Lady Catherine
(Mrs Philips (annoys me for some reason!))
Willoughby
(At times Mrs Jennings and Sir John Middleton)
Lucy Steele
Fanny Dashwood
Mr Elliot
Elizabeth and Mary Elliot
At the beginning, Lady Russell
Mrs Grey (Elizabeths companion)
Sir Walter Elliot
Frank Churchill
The Eltons!
General Tilney
John Thorpe
Isabella Thorpe
Mary Crawford
Henry Crawford
Maria and Julia Bertram (especially Maria, Julia only at times!)
Mrs Norris
Hate:Willoughby
Mrs.Norris
Henry Crawford and Mary Crawford
Wickham
Fanny Dashwood
The Eltons
John Thorpe and Isabella Thorpe
Lucy Steele! (grits teeth) and, oh Lord, Isabella and John Thorpe! That sibling pair is worse than even the Crawfords!
There're so many annoying characters that I don't know how to choose!!!
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I don't know about that.I think Henry Crawford is worse then John Thorpe but Isabelle Thorpe is worse then Mary Crawford.
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Soph wrote: "I think John just annoys me!!"He does me also but Henry Crawford annoys me more.I want to punch him throw all of the book.
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Lydia Bennet (So annoying!)Mrs. Bennet (ditto)
Frank Churchill (a very ungentlemanly fellow)
The Eltons (although I get a kick out of them)
Wickham (the dirty dog)
Elizabeth and Mary Elliot (They treat Anne so badly!)
Sir Walter Elliot (ditto)
John Dashwood (I think I dislike him more than fanny because he goes along with her. I don't like 'wishy-washy')
Lucy Steele (she's such a cat. Poor Elinor)
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Adding Lydia to mine!!
Who's everyone's top top bad character?
I think mine has to be Wickham!
Top bad character?.....hmmm...Wickham's probably close to the top if not right at it.
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Lydia Bennet. So shallow and silly and uncaring for everything around her. Ugh.
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Minor characters, I do not like:Alicia Johnson
Mary Eliot
Catherine de Bourgh( spelling is wrong)
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Alicia Johnson
Mary Eliot
Catherine de Bourgh( spelling is wrong)"
Alicia Johnson?
dilike the other two as well!
I agree totally about Mary Elliot. She drove me nuts! But I found Lady Catherine de Bourgh amusing more than annoying.
Alicia Johnson is a bad friend to Susan in Lady Susan. Catherine is quite a character. She was shock when Eliz dare reply, haha, serves her well!
Lydia Bennet and Mrs. Bennet... ugh.
And Mr. Collins was kind of annoying too but he was funny also so he wasn't that bad.
And Mr. Collins was kind of annoying too but he was funny also so he wasn't that bad.
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Lady C and Mr. Collins were both funny but when I was imagining myself as Elizabeth I could easily find them obnoxious.
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Though I think she mostly found Lady C annoying.
But, at the verbal fencing match ;) she was not so amusing - Lizzy or Lady Catherine!
And Mr C, I think she was mostly annoyed by him yes. Especially when he comes to gloat on the fact that Lizzy didn't marry him (when Lydia runs off)
General Tilney is another I don't like! Horrid behaviour!
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This is why i love the last line, 'I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.'
Parental tyranny - if he had not interferred and got Cathy to NA, would their relationshipn have developed enough to the point of marriage, and the point of...
filial disobedence!
i love this line! really makes you think!
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I'm reading Persuasion right now and I have almost all of Austen's books on my Kindle! They were FREE even! I'll have to read NA next. And is Tilney a Wickham-ish type or some other type of horrid character?
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Well, Henry Tilney is the hero. Captain Tilney is his brother and is a bit naughty and General Tilney is his father and is a bit rude. :)
Ah, got it.
I've just found out who Wentworth is in Persuasion. So far he sounds like a pretty nice guy. Anne better end up with him!
I've just found out who Wentworth is in Persuasion. So far he sounds like a pretty nice guy. Anne better end up with him!
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Can't wait to hear what you think when you have read it more!
You guys are making me really excited (and expectant) for the rest of the book!
Soph wrote: "GREAT list!! Adding Lydia to mine!!
Who's everyone's top top bad character?
I think mine has to be Wickham!"
Top bad character?I think Willoughby wins for me but Henry Crawford and Mrs.Norris aren't far behind.
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Mrs. Norris... the cat? LOL
Which book is she in?
Which book is she in?
Catalina *The Cat Herself* wrote: "Mrs. Norris... the cat? LOLWhich book is she in?"
Mansfield Park.She is an evil witch.
May I add John Thorpe. He is extremely irritating and his sister Isabella Thorpe, she thinks she is sooo smart with her compliments of Catherine but I suspected her from early on.
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Dislike both of them!! :l
Haha, my personal list (in no particular order really) - 1. Lucy Steele - conniving little vixen, so silly and spiteful and manipulative and clingy!
2. Willoughby and Wickham - same reasons really, each of them are dashing enough, but underneath lying, selfish, shallow, conniving, money seeking prats.
3. Lady Catherine - need I say more?
Those are pretty much the few that I pretty much hate from those books that I have read. I feel I have to point out that Mr Collins is not on my list, because at least until the end of Pride and Prejudice I was merely so amused by his silliness and presumptuousness and pompousness and idiocy, that I just laughed at him and thought that he mostly had no idea what a prat he was. So I find it hard to hate him, but it's very easy to be condescending towards him. But I do dislike him, certainly!
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And good list... Austen has such a talent for creating loveable and not so Loveable characters!
Thanks. :) Haha, yeah, during pretty much every scene with Mr Collins in it in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice I am just cracking up the whole time. The novel makes it a lot clearer how mean he was towards Lizzy at the end.:D Good way to put it "not so loveable". She does have amazing talent, doesn't she?
Mr. Collins was an annoying twerp, but when he and Lady Catherine got together I couldn't help but laugh!
Mr. Elliot - I don't think much more needs to be said.
Cat, I agree, he is irritating to the max..
βιβλιοφάγος (a.k.a. Cat) wrote: "Almost done with Persuasion!":) Do tell us when you are finished, so we can discuss it!
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Glad I held my tongue? Awful man!! I was like 'you wait' when you said you liked him!!
