What are the best names for character?
What are the worst?
Does it even matter?
Best: Finnegan, Stephen Daedalus, Leopold Bloom
Honorable mention: Ishmael
Worst: John
just think on juliet's line a bit
she says a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
but she doesn't say a sweet flower by any name would smell just as like a rose
Oedipa Maas
K
Dedalus
Mersault
Humbert Humbert
José Arcadio Buendía
Ada
Lolita
John Shade
Glanton
>>7627700
Hardly matters. Humbert Humbert is one of the worst names and yet ...
Tedor, Holofernes
>>7627750
>lolita
>>7627700
>What are the best names for character?
Usually fairly nondescript outside of a prescribed purpose, usually comedic, eg Major Major Major.
>What are the worst?
Usually the painfully symbolic, like Hiro Protagonist, Dhalgren's Captain Kamp/Earnest Newboy and a guy I know who wrote a play with a character called Euan Dai Mann (billed in the Dramatis Personae [there was a Dramatis Personae] as 'an Everyman')
>Does it even matter?
Usually it's like sound design; if you notice it, it's being done wrong.
the kid
the boy
Siss
Unn
Aureliano Buendia
>>7627750
>José Arcadio Buendia
>>7627998
>Aureliano Buendia
KILL KILL KILL KILLY KILLY KILL
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