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Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
A stock character, popular in 16th-century Spanish literature, who is comically and shockingly vulgar. Clarín, the clown in Pedro Calderón de la Barca 's Life is a dream, is a gracioso. Examples of similar characters in Anglophone culture include Bubbles, Wheeler Walker, Jr. and the stand-up persona of Bob Saget.
Captain John Yossarian is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 and its sequel Closing Time, and the protagonist of both books.In Catch-22, Yossarian is a 28-year-old Captain (later Major) and the bombardier of a North American B-25 Mitchell in the 256th Bombardment Squadron of the Army Air Forces, stationed on the small island of Pianosa off the Italian mainland during World ...
Dwayne Oswald, (1997–1999) voiced by Kris Kachurak, is best known as a foil for Jared DeWhite, Dwayne began as a character who was no good at anything and turned into an honor student later on. [citation needed] Alex Jefferson, [27] (1999–2003) voiced by Travis Tedford, played a pivotal role in the Novacom saga with his cousin Cal.
Top row, from left to right: Pearl, Plankton, and Karen. Bottom row: Sandy, Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob, Squidward, Gary, Patrick, and Mrs. Puff. The characters in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants were created by artist, animator, and former marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg. The series chronicles the adventures of the ...
James Gurney (fict) is a servant of Lady Faulconbridge, in King John. James Soundpost, Simon Catling and Hugh Rebeck are minor characters, musicians, in Romeo and Juliet. Sir James Blunt is a supporter of Richmond in Richard III. Sir James Tyrrell (hist) is employed to murder the princes in the tower in Richard III.
Echetus, a king of Epirus. Eetion, a king of Cilician Thebe and father of Andromache. Electryon, a king of Tiryns and Mycenae; son of Perseus and Andromeda. Elephenor, a king of the Abantes of Euboea. Eleusis, eponym and king of Eleusis, Attica. Epaphus, a king of Egypt and founder of Memphis, Egypt.
Center: Moiraine (Rosamund Pike). Clockwise from left: Egwene (Madeleine Madden), Nynaeve (Zoë Robins), Lan (Daniel Henney), Rand (Josha Stradowski), Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) and Mat (Dònal Finn). The Wheel of Time is a series of high fantasy novels by American author Robert Jordan, which began with The Eye of the World in 1990.