What's in a name? Why of course everything - that's what evoked the image of the person and what he or she would act like.
Have you ever read a book and fallen in love with a character? Sure, so many times, right?
But falling in love with a name? I have. Here are my favourite names, tell me yours.
1. Florentino Ariza - From Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). What's not to like about a man who dedicates his life to his love? But there's something so romantic and enigatic about the name, isn't it?
2. Shekure - From My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk). Derived from sugar, this has to be one of the most beautiful names I have ever come across.
3. Desdemona - From Othello (Shakespeare). Though I am not abig fan of the character, I honestly found her very whiny and too submissive, you have to agree the name is beautiful.
4. Atticus Finch - From To Kill A Mockingbord (Harper Lee). You hear the name and immediately imagine the person who comes alive through Harper Lee’s amazing book.
5. Matilda - From Matilda (Roald Dahl). How can you not love this precocious little child. Along with Dahl’s magical writing we are introduced to the world of Matilda who loves to read and learn, her family who are drowning in TV shows and Miss Honey who finally becomes her companion.
6. Hermione Granger - From Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling). I think we will all agree that Harry Potter books are a treasure trove of brilliant names. Take Hagrid for example, or Sirius Black, or Dumbledore, or even Bellatrix Lestrange. Each one is better than the next, but there is something about Hermione Granger
7. Cosette - From Les Miserables (Victor Hugo). Cosette is a moment of peace and pause in this whirlwind of a novel. if you have not read, you should. I must have learnt more of the French Revolution from this book than in my history books for sure.
8. Leopold Bloom - From Ulysses (James Joyce). This novel was so audacious - like reflecting the universe in a drop, and the protagonist whose meandering walks around Dublin really strung together this delicate story has such a pretty name.
9. Clarissa Dalloway - From Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf). By far one of my favorite books and characters, and a lovely name only helps the cause. So fragile, so frivolous and so shallow, that's her, you feel sympathy and anger towards her at the same time.
10. Miss Havisham - From Great Expectations (Charles Dickens). The picture of quiet fortitude and never ending despair rolled into one. Miss Havisham will leave you with that lump in your throat, any number of times you read the book, and such a lyrical name.
What are yours?
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