The Literary Dinner Party Question

[Aravis]

In the History Department, there's an interesting thread on which five historical figures each of us would invite to a dinner party. Well, I say, why limit it to real people? Which five fictional characters would you invite to a dinner party and why??

My picks:
Mr. Knightley from Emma. He'd be my date for the evening. I thought about inviting Mr. Darcy, but he doesn't perform to strangers, so he might not be much fun. But I have to get an Austen hero in there somewhere.

Gandalf. To provide the fireworks.

Aravis from A Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis. She's a really spirited lass. But I want to invite a twenty-year-old Aravis.

Quentin Compson from Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!. He's quite insane, but brilliant.

Scheherazade. She'd keep us all entertained. (But not in an inappropriate way, oh no. She's not touching Mr. Knightley.)

[Solly]

Good question Aravis.

Zorba, from Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek. Man, we would party!!

Balthasar, from Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.

Shevek, the main character from Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed.
"You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your Spirit, or it is Nowhere."

Alexei Karamazov from, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I would have had Zosima, but he died, of course, but his spirit lives on in Alexei.

Mrs Ramsay, from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
"…she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life
terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance".
"Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep;
but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by"

[stillgroovin]

Mr. Darcy - I agree, you have to have an Austen hero on this list.

Alex (A Clockwork Orange) - Of course, I wouldn't allow classical music, but it would be so interesting to delve into his mind.

Polly (An Old Fashion Girl by Louisa May Alcott) - To balance out Alex

Bridget Jones - This way I get the character of Elizabeth in here, but she probably won't fight me for Mr. Darcy.

Madame Bovary - I've been meaing to tell her a thing or two. She needs to hear the harsh truths of reality.

[themuzicman]

Mrs. Bourne (From the Bourne series, can't remember her name...) Feisty, intelligent woman

Cathrine Ryan from Clancy's series about Jack Ryan

Aowyn (Theodin's daughter, from Lord of the Rings)

Princess Leah (Star wars)

Xena (The warrior princess)

Now THAT'S a party... (Where my survival would definately be in doubt! :lol:)

Michael

[bar Jonah]

Frodo Baggins -- the real hero. Forget Gandalf.

Cyrano de Bergerac -- a true renaissance man, much needed at any dinner party!

Tom Sawyer -- a cunning, adventurous mind with few rivals; a true spirit of adventure!

Eliza Doolittle -- We need a woman who is charming, intelligent, cultured and yet the down-to-earth heart of a common person

Fiver from Watership Down -- I'd love to have a rabbit for dinner! :hehe: