Through the looking glass, Lewis Carroll's Alice stumbles upon an enormous egg-shaped figure celebrating his un-birthday. She tries to introduce herself:
"It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
"Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
"Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "My name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
Dare you use something symbolic as a name for your character?
Symbolic names occur so often in real life.
Dirty twitter pics by Rep. Weiner.
Financial rape by Ken Lay.
Bernie Made-off with your money.
Martha Stewart = steward, someone who runs a household.
Shakespeare used Proteus for a changeable character (2 Gents of V), Malvolio as an ethically challenged Puritan (12th Night, and then J.K. Rowling used "Marvolo" for Tom Riddle/Voldemort's middle name), the narrator Rumor (2 Henry 4), and Falstaff as his base alter ego (Fall-staff = Shake-spear, both are moving sticks.)
Dare you!
Thanks for reading!
Here’s two interesting 99c short stories for you to read: (More fiction coming soon.)
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