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Who are the most interesting female characters in literature?
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>>25191476
Clytemnestra, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Kundry
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>>25191484
Electra, Iphigenia, Athena, Hera, Beatrice,
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>>25191476
honor levy in my first book, by honor levy
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Maude, The Big Lebowski
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Esther Greenwood.
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>>25191476
What do I need to read for a woman like this?
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nausicaa
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>>25193056
I'm thinking shit like Agatha Christie, Ian Rankin and Ian Fleming.
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Who is the biggest female in literature?
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My diary desu
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>>25191476
hermione
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The ones written by Willa Cather
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>>25191476
Catherine Earnshaw
Blanche DuBois
Eleanor of Aquitaine in Lion in Winter
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>>25191476
Simone from Story of the Eye and Erika Kohut from The Piano Teacher
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>>25191476
>Rhea
>Minerva
>Hel
>Kali/Durga
>Medea
>Catherine Earnshaw
>Carolyn (The Library at Mount Char)
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>>25191484
Queen Gertrude is 100× more interesting than Lady Macbeth
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Alejandra Vidal Olmos.
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>>25191476
Post moar cute Anas!
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>>25191476
You actually stumped me. I can name some female characters in literature but they’re never that interesting. Scarlett O’Hara is probably the closest, because she is a multifaceted asshole in a way that’s not girlbossy or I-hate-women.
Mattie in True Grit is interesting mostly as a foil, and her tomboyish attitude is awfully close to “I wrote a man but it’s a woman in the story”.
>>25191484
>Lady MacBeth
Interesting in that she is an actual character? Shakespeare’s women are pretty thin. Most of the praise for her comes from her having a real role to play and it being a scheming and murderous one (playing against her gender, the the point she cries about being “unsexed”).

I’m trying to imagine such a dearth of interesting male characters people flocked to one that actually did something and it wasn’t beating another character over the head. That’s what highly praised female characters sound like.
Take Cleopatra, whose might consists of desperately trying to seduce men to protect herself. Like pretty much every woman. Is her story interesting because of her as a person or that she fucked some influential and history making men?

You ever see those lists of female billionaires? Wonder what amazing genius made their fortune—
>source of income: divorce
>source of income: divorce
>source of income: inheritance
Wow. Hope to see that dramatized.
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>>25191476
For me, it's scarlett o'hara
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>>25195030
*Scarlet o'horror
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>>25193092
honor levy
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>>25194995
meanwhile male billionaires
>source of income: jew
>source of income: jew
>source of income: CIA
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>>25191476
Capitu
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>>25194987
I love this sexy Cuban broad so fucking much.
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>>25191476
alice and sekhmet
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sekhmet was the original tsundere nekomimi
In a myth about the end of Ra's rule on the earth, Ra sends the goddess Hathor, in the form of Sekhmet, to destroy mortals who conspired against him. In the myth, Sekhmet's bloodlust was not quenched at the end of battle, and this led to her going on a bloody rampage that laid Egypt to waste and almost destroyed all of humanity. To stop her, Ra and the other gods devised a plan. They poured out a lake of beer dyed with red ochre so that it resembled blood. Mistaking the beer for blood, Sekhmet drank it all and became so drunk that she gave up on the slaughter and returned peacefully to Ra.[5] The same myth was also described in the prognosis texts of the Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky Days of Papyrus Cairo 86637.[6
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Penelope
Beatrice
Cleopatra
Emma Woodhouse
Jane Eyre
Dorothea Brooke
Tess Durbeyfield
Molly Bloom
Helga Crane
Far fewer people read Richard Hughes anymore, but his child protagonist Emily Bas-Thornton is an incredibly complex, interesting character
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She
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>>25191476
Dona Prouhèze in Le Soulier de Satin by Claudel
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>>25191476
Tanya von Degurechaff from Youjo Senki (Light Novel)
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Snow White from Nikke
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nelly dean
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>>25194926
How so?
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>>25191476
Henriette, Marcoline, ...



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