Further evidence of the nature of Antonio’s feelings for Bassanio appears later in the play, when Antonio’s proclamations resonate with the hyperbole and self-satisfaction of a doomed lover’s declaration: “Pray God Bassanio come / To see me pay his debt, and then I care not” (III.iii.35–36). Antonio ends the play as happily as he can, restored to wealth even if not delivered into love. Without a mate, he is indeed the “tainted wether”—or castrated ram—of the flock, and he will likely return to his favorite pastime of moping about the streets of Venice (IV.i.113). After all, he has effectively disabled himself from pursuing his other hobby—abusing Shylock—by insisting that the Jew convert to Christianity. Although a sixteenth-century audience might have seen this demand as merciful, as Shylock is saving himself from eternal damnation by converting, we are less likely to be convinced. Not only does Antonio’s reputation as an anti-Semite precede him, but the only instance in the play when he breaks out of his doldrums is his “storm” against Shylock (I.iii.132). In this context, Antonio proves that the dominant threads of his character are melancholy and cruelty.

Shylock
Shylock is the play’s antagonist, and he is menacing enough to seriously imperil the happiness of Venice’s businessmen and young lovers alike. Shylock is also, however, a creation of circumstance; even in his single-minded pursuit of a pound of flesh, his frequent mentions of the cruelty he has endured at Christian hands make it hard for us to label him a natural born monster. In one of Shakespeare’s most famous monologues, for example, Shylock argues that Jews are humans and calls his quest for vengeance the product of lessons taught to him by the cruelty of Venetian citizens. On the other hand, Shylock’s coldly calculated attempt to revenge the wrongs done to him by murdering his persecutor, Antonio, prevents us from viewing him in a primarily positive light. Shakespeare gives us unmistakably human moments, but he often steers us against Shylock as well, painting him as a miserly, cruel, and prosaic figure.

Portia
Quick-witted, wealthy, and beautiful, Portia embodies the virtues that are typical of Shakespeare’s heroines—it is no surprise that she emerges as the antidote to Shylock's malice. At the beginning of the play, however, we do not see Portia’s potential for initiative and resourcefulness, as she is a near prisoner, feeling herself absolutely bound to follow her father’s dying wishes. This opening appearance, however, proves to be a revealing introduction to Portia, who emerges as that rarest of combinations—a free spirit who abides rigidly by rules. Rather than ignoring the stipulations of her father’s will, she watches a stream of suitors pass her by, happy to see these particular suitors go, but sad that she has no choice in the matter. When Bassanio arrives, however, Portia proves herself to be highly resourceful, begging the man she loves to stay a while before picking a chest, and finding loopholes in the will’s provision that we never thought possible. Also, in her defeat of Shylock Portia prevails by applying a more rigid standard than Shylock himself, agreeing that his contract very much entitles him to his pound of flesh, but adding that it does not allow for any loss of blood. Anybody can break the rules, but Portia’s effectiveness comes from her ability to make the law work for her.

Portia rejects the stuffiness that rigid adherence to the law might otherwise suggest. In her courtroom appearance, she vigorously applies the law, but still flouts convention by appearing disguised as a man. After depriving Bassanio of his ring, she stops the prank before it goes to far, but still takes it far enough to berate Bassanio and Gratiano for their callousness, and she even insinuates that she has been unfaithful.

Mowgli is the protagonist of the story and even if he is very young he plans to fight Shere Khan with all his might. Mowgli was brought to the wolves when he was just a young man-cub. He had lost his parents and the wolves adopted him as their own. They allowed Mowgli to enter the wolf pack for the price of a bull and with Baloo's help. He is eager to learn the rules and anything that the people in the jungle follows. The color of his skin is brown and he is really slender. He is so brave but so innocent and is willing to prove to the people in the jungle that he isn't afraid to face Shere Khan even if this puts him in danger. Mowgli always wants to go to an adventure with Bagheera and Baloo, who teaches him things he must know like talking to bats and other animals so that they will favor him if he needed some help. 

 

Shere Khan is the antagonist of the story also known as Lungri (The Lame One). Shere Khan is a big striped tiger who isn’t afraid of anyone except the red flower (fire). He is friends with Tabaqui. He hates human and swears to the pack that Mowgli will be on his hands someday. He always carry his pride and he thinks highly of himself. He takes advantage of his power in ruling the people in the jungle.

Bagheera is a big black panther who is friends with Mowgli. Bagheera’s skin is glossy and silky black. He was the one who offered a bull in exchange of Mowgli’s acceptance to the pack. He is feared by many except Mowgli. He was raised with men and his mother died in the cages of King’s Palace at Oodeypore. He is always there for Mowgli to save him and to protect him from harm or danger.

Scout is the narrator of the story. She is the daughter of Atticus Finch. She is also 4 years younger than her brother Jem and a good friend of Dill Harris. The story began when she was only 6 years old. She is described in the story as a young girl who is some sort of a bookworm, a person with a strong will, and is also intellectual. Along with Jem and Dill, they try to unveil the mystery behind the Radley Residence.

 

Jem is the son of Atticus Finch. He is 4 years older than his sister, Scout, and also a very good friend of Dill Harris. As a senior of Scout, he has a better understanding of the happenings in Maycomb county. At the beginning of the story, he was described as a varsity player in football and there came a time where he almost stopped because of a very bad injury. He is very strong and brave. He leads Scout and Dill in their search for the mystery of the Radley Residence.

 

Calpurnia is the cook of the Finch family. She stood as the mother of Jem and Scout. Even if they are not blood-related, she is still considered as a part of the family by Atticus. She is known for her strong personality which Scout hates, but as the story goes on, she learned that this is Calpurnia’s way of giving them love and affection.

 

Miss Maudie is a neigbor of the Finch family. She is very friendly to Jem and Scout. She is also a childhood friend of Atticus. She is a lover of everything that involves nature especially the flowers.

 

Atticus is the father of Scout and Jem. He brought Calpurnia to the family as a cook but considers him as a family. His occupation is a lawyer. He is described as an integrated and honest person who will fight for what he knows is right. His belief was challenged when a man named Tom Robinson was accused of rape.

 

Boo Radley is the most intriguing character in the story. Because of his mysterious side for the reason that he doesn’t go out of his house, he was considered by his neighbors as a man with a monstrous side and was rumored to eat cats and when the night comes, leaves his house to haunt his neighbors. Contrary to their belief, he is actually kind, innocent and shy, which is the reason for him not leaving the house. 

 

Dill is a friend of Scout and Jem. He is a year older than Scout. He is a friend who visits them each summer from Alabama. He is described as a person with a broad imagination. He uses his imagination to make up stories and keep Scout and Jem interested in the mysterious Radley Place.

 

Based on the book, ”he was of the very dark type which his blond-peopled country not seldom produces,and his already nut-brown skin was tanned almost to bronze. With his large, black eyes and small, dark mustache over the full, well-shaped mouth, he would have been distinctly handsome of his ears had not stood out”. He likes to smoke a lot and he was entitled as “Quicksilver cigar”. He cannot live without cigarette for him smoking deprives a man of the best part of life. He also likes music. In this story, he travelled from hamburg to Davos platz in the canton of Grisons to visit his cousin Joachim Ziemssen in the sanatorium. He seems to be an observant man because he noticed every single thing while he’s on his way to sanatorium. I believe that he is a thoughtful man because he travelled very far just to see his cousin but they are not really that close for they call each other by their last names. His mother dies because of cardiac arrest while his father cannot cope up with grief so he got depressed and died 5 days later. This epoch on his life doesn’t affect him at all but looking deeper in actions, he seems sad about it but he doesn’t want to show it. 

 

 

He is the cousin of Hans Castorp. He is taller and broader than Hans Castorp. He lives in the sanatorium because he showed a symptoms of having tuberculosis pulmonum. He is an anemic person. Hans Castorp said the he was queer in speaking. He knows a lot of people in the sanatorium because he lived there for quite a long time. Joachim and Hans become closer as the time passed by. 

Alice 

- Alice is the 7year old child protagonist of Lewis Carroll’s children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She is a very bright, young girl who is very observant about her surroundings. She is also described as innocent and imaginative. She has a sister and a pet cat named Dinah. In the book, she followed a rabbit out of boredom and curiosity that lead her to Wonderland. Her curiosity leads to something wherein she wants to discover everything that surrounds her. Though she might be curious to the things around her, she is very fond of doing and showing what she knows through her very wide array of imagination. 

 

Cheshire Cat 

- It is the cat of the Duchess popularized by Carroll for having a striped fur and a mischievous grin. It appears and disappear whenever it likes and somehow show signs of insanity. 

 

White Rabbit 

- This character is one of the first mind boggling character in the novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is the very first character that Alice met in the story. White Rabbit wears a waistcoat and could talk just like us, humans. And when Alice saw him, it seemed that White Rabbit is catching up onto something as he is saying that he might be late as he hurries to his errand. He's always aware of his time and he could be considered as paranoid when it comes to his schedule. He always wanted to be punctual in every way and in everything. 

 

Mad Hatter 

-He is a small and rude man with a hat who is a member of the Mad Tea Party. When he met Alice, he explains why they are always having tea and stuck in time and that is because they try to sing for the Queen and she sentenced him to death for murdering time. 

 

Queen of Hearts
 -She is the primary antagonist of the story. She is the Queen of Wonderland and was married to King of Hearts wherein they rule Wonderland together. Queen of Hearts is a small queen with an enlarged head. She's a cruel, tyrannical, and a powerful queen. She only wanted to make Wonderland as if it was only hers and she wants to maintain it under her control. She controls most of the characters in the novel through slavery wherein Alice tried to stop her villainous acts. She’s also famous with her line “Off with their heads!” 
 
 King of Hearts
 -He is a small, coward man and the spouse of the Queen of Hearts. The King of Hearts is merely a king whose goal is to please his Queen which most of the Kings wanted to do but at the same time, he is also the one who can make her change her mind about anything.  So he supports her in every way that he can. Although the fact that the queen is very cruel, the King somehow has a kind heart though he is kind of coward. 

 

Captain Ahab 

The narrator of this story is also a character of the story, Ishmael, the only surviving crewmember of the Pequod. Captain Ahab thought of going back to the ocean to get a revenge on Moby-dick because on a previous voyage the white whale Moby Dick bit off Captain Ahab’s leg leaving him with an artificial foot made out of whalebone. As the whaling voyage continue to sail, when the Whale is finally sighted, he entangles by the line of his own harpoon and fall overboard and  that cause to drag him to the bottom of the sea by the white whale. Some of the people on his period calls him “ungodly god-like man”.  Captain Ahab is a captain which Sail just to capture a white whale. He is an American and his religion is Quaker. He married a young sweet girl, and they had a son. 

Victor Frankenstein is the eldest child of a wealthy and respected couple from Geneva. He is described to be an intelligent and hardworking man, but his perseverance lead him to his downfall when he he combined the principles of old and new sciences to create a new form of a living being. Despite his vision for greatness, he remains a protective and loving companion for his family and friends. After the deaths of his loved ones, which were caused by the monster he created, he vowed to  seize the fiend, even if it would cost him his life. In the end, he learned that being content with what you have is better than taking risks, because your aspirations will bring you down. 

 

The Monster 

Although the creature has always been referred to as “Frankenstein”, he was not actually given a name in the novel. He started out as a bizarre-looking man, confused as to why his creator abandoned him so suddenly. He found refuge in the hovel of a German family’s cottage in Paris, where he learned how to speak and understand the vices and virtues of human beings. He became attached to the family, and hoped to have a good relationship with them, but when he revealed himself a few years later, they screamed in terror and left the cottage. This incident filled his heart with anger, especially towards Victor, who made him hideous. Still, he longed for love and tried to compromise with his creator by begging him to create a female version of himself, so that he can finally receive mutual affection with a being of his own kind. When Victor disagreed to his proposal, he thought of inflicting endless pain to the man, and he did it by executing all of his loved ones one by one.

-He is a man with nut-brown skin that is tanned and almost bronze and he has large black eyes and a small dark moustache over the full, well shaped mouth.He also has a number of gold fillings in his teeth. He comfortably carries the weight of their culture and loves and respects his work so much. He made it easy for other people to understand and respect his reserve. He smokes cigars and cigarettes. He went to Davos to visit his cousin Joachim that lives in a sanatorium and also to get some rest. Hans and his cousin call each other by their last names because they are afraid of showing too much feelings. He got sick while staying in the sanatorium and while he was sick he had full of troubled, involved, dubious not quite ingenuous thoughts.

-He is the cousin of Hans that lives in a sanatorium and was visited by Hans. He was taller and broader than Hans and has a youthful vigour, and is made for a uniform. He helped Hans all throughout his stay in the sanatorium. He would tell Hans stories about his stay in the sanatorium. He has a queer way of talking. He is always worried for Hans

 
Jay Gatsby

 Jay Gatsby is the title character and protagonist of the novel that bears his name. He is the man who ordered his life from poverty and became a very wealthy man for one desire, which is to reunite with Daisy Buchanan, the love that he had lost for five years. Gatsby is very charming, gracious, and a bit mysterious for he do not want people who come to his parties to know him much and so he does to them, but only cares if they know Daisy. 

 

He is admirable for all his positive traits but there are some aspects where he shows another side of him that is not quite pleasant. His desire to recapture the past he had with Daisy, is the actual reason why he built a friendship with Nick Carraway. It has also blinded him from keeping away the reality from his most unrealistic dreams. He is very obsessed with the idea of getting her back, that he couldn’t even love her, herself, and made himself a reason of self-destruction and death. 

 

 

 Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful and mesmerizing socialite, she is a wife to Tom Buchanan, cousin to Nick Carraway, and a friend to Jordan Baker. She is the past lover of Gatsby and the object of his desire. Daisy captivates men with her sheer in nature and sultry voice. She is described with purity and innocence, yet she is also very mysterious. 

 

Daisy seemed to found love in her reunion with Gatsby, as well. She is completely aware of Tom’s affairs with other woman for years, so she thinks that she might consider the fact that it could motivate her from having an affair of her own to get back at Tom. 

 

Despite of her beauty and charm, she is merely selfish and shallow. She is a symbolic representation of elite women, she cries with the satisfaction of how Gatsby’s material wealth brings her. Another thing that calls to question to her character is how she speaks of her daughter, Pammy Buchanan, "I hope she'll be a fool," she says, "that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." It shows her perspective of how women should be in this world, that beauty is more beneficial rather than having brains to survive.


Nick Carraway
He is the narrator and the story is being told in his point of view. He has a little effect on the story or a bit passive. According to this line “When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” He has a good relationship with Gatsby which may be the reason why he helped Gatsby to have a connection again with his cousin Daisy. There are no things mentioned about how Nick looks like.


Tom Buchanan
He is the husband of Daisy, he has an ongoing affair with Myrtle, the wife of Wilson. Tom is the antagonist of the story, as he took the love of Gatsby’s life, Daisy. They both seem not head-over-heels for each other but they do not show any intention of leaving. He is an abusive partner with Myrtle as he broke her nose the night when he brought Nick to New York to introduce him to Myrtle.
“ Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." According to these lines, he is a racist and he believes that the white race is the most powerful race.
“He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.” This lines tell us about Tom's looks, as told earlier in the story he was one of the best to play football in the New Haven, but as time passed by, his body became weaker and now his age is slowly affecting the way he looks. His eyes tend to make him aggressive and manipulative.

by
GEROME CANGCO &
EDWARD AQUINO

Gabe or Gabriel is a baby who was taken care by Jonas' family because of some problems, Gabe has the same pale eyes of Jonas, Lily (sibling) also said that maybe Jonas and Gabe has the same birthmother because they are the only ones who has the pale eyes in their community.

Jonas' bestfriend is Asher, he is the type of boy that doesn't take all things seriously but he is a friendly and cheerful boy who made a promise with Jonas that even when they grow up they won't forget their relationship. Jonas' crush is Fiona who is a gorgeous girl and also sensitive like Jonas but she is a quiet, polite, and intelligent girl.

Is the protagonist of Franz Kafka’s short story, The Metamorphosis, who is just a normal traveling salesman that suddenly finds himself turned into a bug or "a monstrous vermin" according to the book-- Expertly hidden behind a monotonous narrative, his character was always thought of as complicated, indifferent, and naive. But overall, Gregor is simply a child and a brother who cares for his family more than anything. In the first few chapters it is seen that this hard-working young man has only one purpose, it is to provide for his family. Basing on that fact, his family’s dependence on him is the reason for why it seemed hopeless and why everything in their household rapidly fell apart. With no way of communicating, he had become an unwelcome guest.

Grete Samsa
Starting out with naivety and finishing as an independent young woman, there is no denying that Grete Samsa changed the most in the narrative. 
Directly stated in context, Grete is an observant and intelligent young girl. Her traits are seen in the first few paragraphs of the second chapter where she gave Gregor an assortment of food to taste after disliking his favorite drink, milk. As the youngest, she has taken it upon herself to take care of Gregor by giving him food and cleaning his room. Overtime, her perspective in helping Gregor had changed from being helpful to a tedious chore because after the incident of her mother walking in on him while they were taking the furniture out of his room she had shown deep resentment towards her brother. Going along the plot, she had taken a job as a salesgirl in the day to support her family in her brother’s place and to her second job—taking care of Gregor. Grete, while maturing, started despising Gregor and thought of him as a pest. She even suggested that they get rid of him so when her brother had died, she felt nothing. For the death of an insect, is not to grief for.

 

Mr. Darcy is a tall, handsome, wealthy, proud man who has a very mysterious personality. When he was forced by Mr. Bingley to dance with Elizabeth he told him that she is not beautiful enough to attract him, which Elizabeth heard. In the first ten chapters Mr. Darcy seems to show excessive pride and self-satisfaction. At first, Mr. Darcy doesn’t like Elizabeth, but as the time passed he is having an interest in her and he wants to know more of her. 

 

Ms. Bennet (Jane Bennet) is the eldest of the Bennet daughters. She is a gentle and kind-hearted young woman, and is Elizabeth’s confidant. She tends to be their mother’s favorite because she is in the words of Mr. Bingley. But on the other side, her father seems to find her as too generous and is easily taken advantage of. In the story it is obvious that Ms. Bennet is hopelessly in love with Mr. Bingley. 

 

Elizabeth Bennet is Jane’s sister who is also considered as her bestfriend. She is an intelligent and spirited young woman, and her father’s favorite and is described by him by having ‘quickness of mind’ than her sisters. As she overheard the conversation of Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley at the party, she started to dislike Mr. Darcy. At another party Sir Lucas offered Mr. Darcy to dance with Elizabeth but she declined it. As Mr. Darcy is starting to have interest in her, little did she know that Ms. Bingley (Mr. Bingley’s sister) is jealous of her because she likes Mr. Darcy, and she is starting to notice that Mr. Darcy’s attention is going towards Elizabeth. 

Old Major 
On Major is an old boar whose speech about the evils perpetrated by humans, Old Major tells the animals that their lives would be much better if they could overthrow man and find freedom. Then he once said that  "Why should we care what happens after we are dead?” or “If this Rebellion is to happen anyway, what difference does it make whether we work for it or not?" Old major claims to understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal is now living. Maybe, the effect is the animals believed on him. He was a wise Old Boar.  But then Old Major dies and the animals begin to prepare for the rebellion. The preparations are led by the pigs. 

 Mr. Jones 
He is the Antagonist in the story, The often-drunk owner of Manor Farm, He led to his neglect of both the animals and buildings of Manor Farm.  Mr. Jones forces the animals to overworked and then steals the products of their labor. But the animals all know that Mr. Jones does not value their lives and will mercilessly murder each and every one of them once they have outlived their usefulness. 

-He is the protagonist in the story. He is a office working guy with a descent job and has a simple living. In the book Meursault is different from the people surrounding him, there’s no extraordinary about his looks, yet his lack of emotions or attachment towards other are hardly to understand because it was so indifferent from others. On the day he received the telegram that indicates his mother’s death, he doesn’t even shed a tear or show emotional affection towards the situation for he doesn’t feel that it’s real, that’s reality, “...it’s almost as if Mother weren’t really dead. The funeral will bring it home to me, put an official seal on it...”. He has a affair with a girl named Marie Cardona, Meursault was attracted to her, yet he wasn’t sure if he was inlove with her or what is his real feeling towards her. Despite of him being indifference about their relationship, Marie still loves him. “... she murmured something about my being “a queer fellow.” “And I daresay that’s why I love you”...”. Meursault also killed a arab man, without reason. 

-He is a short tempered guy who is also violent specially to his mistress. He is a friend/neighbor  of Meursault. By The help of Meursault, his plans to get his arab mistress punished was fulfilled. He planned it out for he thinks she was unfaithful to her. Yet he doesn’t know that the brothers or “arab mans” are about to get revenge too by the time they were on the beach.

-He is one of the neighbor of Meursault, He is an old man with a dog as his companion. He is a little snobbish for when Meursault tries to have a conversation he merely answers. His attention was on his dog only. At first it doesn’t appear that he love his dog and he cared for him because he always shout things to his dog “Then he beats his dog and calls it names.”, but later on as his dog went missing he realized how much that dog means to him. “One of his mates on the railway whose bitch had just had pups had offered him one, and he had taken it, as a companion. He’d had to feed it from the bottle at first. But, as a dog’s life is shorter than a man’s, they’d grown old together...” ““Now and then we had some proper set-tos, he and I. But he was a good mutt all the same.”

-He was Raymond’s friend who invited him to go in his beach house. Raymond, together with Meursault and Marie, went to beach house to have fun and enjoys the Sunday with “heavenly weather” as per marie and stunning beach view, yet the tragic part of the story starts when the Meursault kills an arab man in that beach.

-He is known as “fiancé” of the mother of Meursault inside the Home. He is the only one of her friends in the Home that came with Meursault on his funeral in the cemetery. According to the staff of the aged Perez is the lover of his mother. He cried so hard by the time they were in the cemetery. 

Robinson Crusoe – Robinson Crusoe as a child he always dreams of his being a sailor, he didn’t listen to his family, who wanted him to pursue law. He then goes on a journey, which was shipwrecked, and was enslaved by a Moor. He escapes the place with Xury and Moely. Only Moely is the one who separated himself to them. Xury wants to be with Robinson. 

His personality in the story is rather dull but there are some that portrays it. He is being generous as he give gifts to other people. He is not even interested to portray himself as the hero of the story and he never boast about his courage rather he portrays himself as an ordinary sensible man. He expresses more love to Friday than his own family.

 

Xury – Xury is a slave Robinson met before they escape from the Moor. He is an Arab or black slave boy, who is loyal to Robinson. Robinson save him from the slavery but he sells Xury to the Portuguese Captain. 

 

Friday - Friday represents all native American. When Robinson Crusoe teaches Friday to call him “Master” Friday becomes the symbol of racial injustice in the modern. He and Robinson contrasts each other when he had his reunion with his father. Robinson never mentions about his family in the story like how he misses them. Crusoe is the one who may bring Christianity and clothing to him but he brings emotional joy and warmth to him.

 

Portuguese Captain – The Portuguese captain is more of an honest, loyal and generous man. As portrayed in the story, He informed Crusoe of the money he has borrowed against Crusoe’s investments and immediately repaying it even though he don’t enough money to do so. He served Crusoe for more than 28 years. Finally, he is extremely generous, giving Crusoe gifts when leaving Brazil.