Eponym In Literature Quotes

Eponymous Clent- Wanted for thirty-nine cases of fraud, counterfeiting, selling, and circulating lewd and unlicensed literature, claiming to be the impecunious son of a duke, impersonating a magistrate, impersonating a horse doctor, breach of promise, forty-seven moonlit flits without payment of debts, robbing shrines, fleeing from justice before trial, stealing pies from windows and small furniture from inns, fabricating the Great Palthrop Horse Plague for purposes of profit, operating a hurdy-gurdy without a license. The public is advised against lending him money, buying anything from him, letting him rooms, or believing a word he says. Contrary to his professions, he will not pay you the day after tomorrow.

Vietnam's most famous work of literature, 'Kim Vân Kiều', written by Nguyễn Du (1766–1820) at the beginning of the nineteenth century, has a prostitute as its eponymous heroine. Thuý Kiều is a beautiful and talented young woman who, in order to help her family, willingly sells herself into prostitution.

The characters were lambasted by her classmates as suffering too tragically, or being tragically insufferable. But Darlene was dedicated to tragedy, because wasn’t that what great literature was about? What kind of novel would Madame Bovary be if the eponymous character simply had accepted life at her station, cheerily raised her child in the countryside, and died of old age surrounded by loved ones? Why read stories at all if living the small tragedies of our own lives suffices? “And that’s what art, and life, is about, isn’t it?” she said,