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I'm halfway through the 30 Day Book Challenge and I hope my responses have been both entertaining and thought provoking. Today's challenge is difficult. I fall in love with characters. They become my friends. I have 3 favorite male characters:
#3:
Severus Snape is my favorite male character in the
Harry Potter series. Snape has such depth. He's one of the most complex characters I've ever encountered. Throughout the books readers wonder
is he good, is he bad? Whose side is Severus Snape on? A former death eater, Snape has a definite dark side. He is imposing. He is intelligent. He can be frightening. Yet Dumbledore trusts him implicitly. Snape is the guy we love to hate and Alan Rickman really brought him to life.
#2
The protagonist in Dan Brown's acclaimed
The Davinci Code is Robert Langdon and he's my hero. I am an academic. I am in graduate school working on two different M.A. degrees. I spend a great deal of my time mining through archives and reading ancient texts most other people haven't even heard of. Langdon appeals to me on several levels. He's brilliant. He's unassuming. He's an expert in his field. I love him.
#1
King Arthur is my all time favorite male character. I've read most of the grail myths and
Mort d'Arthur is the reason I fell in love with the middle ages, and in many ways is the reason my grad field is the medieval period.
Historians searching for the historic Arthur believe (if he existed--which I believe he did) he was a soldier drafted from an outlying British village (likely near Wales) under Roman rule. The King Arthur movie with Clive Owen and Kiera Knightly is an excellent depiction of the historic Arthur.
Mandatory disclaimer: The images in this blog post do not belong to me. They belong to the individual production companies, photographers, and actors associated with each film/role.
