Reflections
Eager reader of history, mystery, classics, biographies, steampunk, lit fic, science, scifi, and etc. My reviews are mostly positive--I rarely finish or write about books I don't enjoy. My TBR is too high for that.
Most Haunting Literary Characters
Paula Wilcox as Miss Havisham
The British public has voted: The most haunting female and male characters in literature are Miss Havisham and Heathcliff. Here is the whole list:
Top ten most haunting female characters
1. Miss Havisham - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
2. The ghost - The Woman in Black, Susan Hill
3. Lady Macbeth - Macbeth, William Shakespeare
4. White Witch - Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
5. Annie Wilkes - Misery, Stephen King
6.Mrs De Winter - Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
7. Nuse Ratched - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
8. Mrs Coulter - Northern Lights, Philip Pullman
9. Miss Trunchball - Matilda, Roald Dahl
10. Miss Hardbroom - The Worst Witch, Jill Murphy
Top ten most haunting male characters
1. Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
2. Count Dracula - Dracula, Bram Stoker
3. Jack Torrance - The Shining, Stephen King
4. Mr Rochester - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
5. Alex - A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
6. Frankenstein's monster - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
7. Pennywise the clown - It, Stephen King
8. President Coriolanus Snow - The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
9. Caliban - The Tempest, William Shakespeare
10. Kevin - We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
As reported by Lydia Smith in International Business Times.
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