Who is your favorite storybook character?
Favorite Storybook Character
I’m devoted to storybooks. In my free time, I love to read stories and poems. Well, you can’t be bored in the company of a good book. I love to read books in my mother tongue, Bengali. So, I’m a great fan of Bengal novels. My favourite writers are Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. There are so many characters in storybooks that inspired me. But the storybook character who inspires me the most is Devi Chaudhurani aka Prafulla. The character is from the famous Bengali novel of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhya, “Devi Chaudhurani”. The character Prafulla’s transformation from a fearful rural girl to the fearless bandit Queen is so intriguing. She was born to a very poor family. She has seen her father since childhood. She was raised by her mother. From her childhood, she faced discrimination and humiliation for her background. But never dare to speak against it. Her fortune turned when she was married to a very wealthy son of a zamindar. But her happiness didn’t last long. Soon, she left the house of her in-laws for her evil father-in-law. And she lost her mother too. After facing so many adversities in life, she became as strong as a rock. And ready to accept her Destiny. But in a forest, she became acquainted with a revolutionist and impressed him with her intelligence. After hard training, she became their leader. Her strong transformation fascinates me. I also love the way she overcomes the obstacles in her life. The transformation from a furious rural girl to the rescuer of the needy people is amazing.
– Written By Ishita Gupta
Every Twilight fan can feel that Edward, apart from being handsome, is the best character that Stephanie Meyer has written. For me, Edward is everything. He is the kindest, helpful, lovable, and supportive person(well, actually a vampire) I know. The way he loved Bella(his lover) is a dream for many girls to find someone who can love them the way he did. Sacrificing himself just by thinking he lost Bella shows how much he loved her. He thought of leaving Bella just to make sure she lives a happy human life because of what his brother(Jasper) did shows the level of compromise. Trying to be a good person just to live with his love makes me love this character more. All the things he did for Bella were mind-blowing. He will forever be one of my favorite characters.
– Written By Bhashwatee
I adore Snape, Severus Snape from Harry Potter
I can already hear you yelling, “Snape was awful!l” “He didn’t love Lily; he was creepily obsessed with her!” “He hugged her dead body while her crying baby was in the room!” (That was only in the movie, but I’ll rant about that another day.) “He was no martyr; he deserved everything he got!” “So what if he had a bad childhood? So did Harry!”
And you know what? You’re right. Every single reason that was listed there is another reason that I love him. Here is a character that managed to commit heroic acts all while committing horrific crimes, and he never had a dramatic character arc to switch from one persona to another. Snape continually acts on both sides of heroism. Everything ‘good’ that he did was for a ‘bad’ reason, and everything ‘bad’ that he did was for a ‘good’ reason. Potterheads have gone in circles arguing with one another about the virtuousness of his actions. Which other character could have had a heroic reason for killing beloved Dumbledore? Quite frankly, this accounts for most of my love for Snape. This wizard has done truly awful things, and yet he manages to justify it all to himself. Crazily enough, he’s obsessed with events that happened years ago and uses these obsolete events as reasoning for everything he does. I can just imagine Snape lying awake at night, going through everything he’s done that day, and reassuring himself that Lily would be proud or something. In my opinion, the man was insane for focusing on a girl so much, and yet it was this insanity that played a major role in helping win the war for Harry and co.
Rowling even did what most good authors do: she gave her ‘villain’ a pretty tragic background to make him understandable. She gave him a pretty decent chunk of emotional luggage to justify his actions, and yet everything she wrote for him doesn’t even come close to rationalizing the lump sum of his sins. It could be argued that he took his backstory and managed to use it to make himself even more detestable. I have more pity for Thanos than I do for this guy. How does a man manage to be presented with chances to change his life on multiple occasions and continually choose the most self-centred option every single time, until pretty much the very end? I don’t know, and I love it.
Thus, to end off, Snape, in my opinion, is one of the most relatable characters in Harry Potter. Humanity is, at its core, inexplicably talented at reasoning away our actions, even though they seem horrific to outsiders. In my honest opinion, out of all her characters, Snape was Rowling’s masterpiece. We may not end up a Voldemort, intent on taking over the world and purifying it, but we could very well end up as a person prepared to do anything, all based on irrelevant information and past events.
– Written By Chaitanya Gunda
