I’m trying to think of names of fictional characters that have become words in their own right, barely still retaining the reference to the original character. Scrooge, Mrs. Malaprop, Don Quixote (quixotic). Are there others?
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My colleague writes Holmes novels and belongs to society of fellow Sherlockians.
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Gargantuan.
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There are tons. Brobdingnagian, saturnine, mercurial ...
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My invocation of Cassandra notwithstanding, I do think there’s a difference between characters from mythology and from authored books/poems/plays.
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Don't forget Pollyanna.
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Faustian
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Svengali
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Moby Dick, if a whale can be a character
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The troll in me wants to say Jesus.
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