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[lithera]

Are there any characters in literature or theater or even just pop culture that you relate to? Anyone that spoke to you when you read them?

I used to relate to Eponine from Les Miserables. I can still see where I did, though I certainly don't now. (And for the record, I still have no emapthy for Cosette. None.)

I can't think of any character I've read recently that I identify with in that way.

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[fireballof3.livejournal.com]

Cosette needed to get slapped like the punk bitch she was.

Grumble.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Yeesh.

[inevitability.livejournal.com]

Dude, I get the feeling that everyone is basing that opinion on the musical.

Read the book, people.

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[fireballof3.livejournal.com]

I'll freely admit that my opinion is based on the musical.

She was written like a prat in that.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

I read the book. Still didn't like Cosette. In fact, I didn't like much of anyone. That's the way his books work for me, though.

[phoenixfyre.livejournal.com]

Cosette was a complete whinger! Couldn't stand her...still can't. Eponine was my favorite.

I suppose I relate the most to Anne Shirley, from Anne of Green Gables.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I missed that entire Anne of Green Gables thing when I was younger, but due to living with Marci and Kyna in college, I saw tons of the tv show.

Cosette. Bah. Stupid whining girl. Hated her in the book. Hated her in the musical. Bah, bah, bah.

[inevitability.livejournal.com]

If you read the book you wouldn't have liked Eponine.

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[phoenixfyre.livejournal.com]

And why not?

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[inevitability.livejournal.com]

Because she is vicious and is one of the antagonists early on in the book. The musical completely ignores the truth of the characters in order to make it palatable to americans. Americans like the underdog, but in the actual story Cosette was the character you were rooting for and Eponine kinda got what was coming to her.

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[phoenixfyre.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to make sure I had remembered the book correctly. I still like Eponine, better than Cosette. And that was before the musical came out.

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

I read the book and I still thought Eponine was sad. Mostly because she was so lonely and died completely alone. Rather...miserable.

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[inevitability.livejournal.com]

Except for the fact that she was a major contributing factor to Cosettes suffering during her childhood. Eponine was a wicked girl who, for the majority of the first half of the book, took after her parents. In the musical I had sympathy for her, in the book I was too predisposed to hating her to feel sorry for her.

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[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. She was a little b*tch. But I'm just generally soft-hearted. I figured she had suffered enough. That, and it took me a decent amount of time to get from Cosette's childhood to the barricades. (Bloody paid-by-the-word books...)

[quipper.livejournal.com]

Sioned, from Melanie Rawn's Sunrunner series. I always felt she embodied strength.

[princessgeek.livejournal.com]

I always related to the legend of the selkie-folk.

[angelface7.livejournal.com]

I always related to Amanda from Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins. Then again, I may have just wanted to be her.

[inevitability.livejournal.com]

Tyler Durdin and Cobra Commander

[vebelfetzer.livejournal.com]

Susan Sto Helit from Discworld.

[seanb.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I can't think of any characters I've strongly empathized with for a long time. I think the last one was Podkayne's little brother, Clark, from "Podkayne of Mars".

Hmm, I don't think I've read that one since elementary school. One of the few Heinleinns I don't have in my current collection.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Ekaterin in Komarr. Lots of exactly how I am in bad relationships.

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been thinking about this, and I can only come up with one scence where I went, "Yes! That's exactly the way it is!" That was in _Shards of Honor_, when Cordelia was musing that it must be nice to have arranged marriages, because then you don't have the social akwardness.

But everything else...there's a lot of characters I like, that I want to be like, but none of the characters I like I can really empathize with. I just hero-worship them.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

*nods* That's cool.