Looking at book, TV and film characters is harder than just reading up on portraits of religious figures as characters from media can be far more complex and are allowed to go of the righteous path to be redeemed later on. Luckily children's books have a variety of characters who come in different forms and are virtuous; so by looking into these different types of characters I thought it would give be more inspiration to do less humanoid characters and look at other types of shapes.
Here are a few example of what I found:
Charlotte's web- Wilbur is a character who shows kindness and humility towards his friends especially his loyalty in charlotte
the Clangers- patience and chastity.
Luke Skywalker- Chastity
and the tin man from (Oz) who also shows chastity
but not forgetting Fozzie bear who shows diligence and kindness to his friends.
all these character come in different shapes and sizes and show there virtues in a variety of degrees.
On the other hand I did have a look at characters from adult novels to see if there was proof of virtuous characters, the list is very much compact compared to the children's list but I found this character rather interesting:
Kari Buhl- from "The Difficult Man"- she embodies the creators ideals of decency, modesty, intelligence and immense sensitivity to the feeling of others through out the novel.
On a different note while researching these virtuous characters I thought about the creator of these ideals and if he also followed them correctly and I found that "god" is a mixture of right and wrong for example he is unpredictable, unaccountable, omnipotent yet negligent, kind yet vicious.
So this lead me on to thinking about the devil if he was in the right and wrong as well.
which I will talk about next.
sources:
http://www.mypersonality.info/awomanshaven/
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-100-favourite-fictional-characters-as-chosen-by-100-literary-luminaries-526971.html
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