GCSE English Literature Characters Ambitious Vocabulary.
An Inspector Calls.
Eric: dissolute, addictive, misogynistic, remorseful, agitated, degenerate, erratic, antagonistic
Gerald: composed, hypocritical, sexually predatory/opportunistic, dissatisfied, complacent, irredeemable, contradictory
Sheila: immature, petty, penitent, imaginative, strait-jacketed, contrite, epiphany, suppressed, revelation, liberated, gaining agency or autonomy, voiceless.
Mr Birling: Self-regarding, unimaginative, complacent, ignorant, uninformed, morally limited, conceited, compensatory, provincial, his life unexamined, defensive, unempathic
Mrs Birling: callous, vengeful, lacking in nurture, unimaginative, monstrously complacent, petty, trivial, un/maternal, sterile, elitist, class conscious, superior, defensive, self-obsessed,
Inspector: incisive, destabilising, antagonistic, confrontational, humane, vigorous, dynamic, subverting, penetrating, perceptive, hostile,
Macbeth
Malevolent maternity
Macbeth: gruesome, unpredictable, volatile, depraved, dependent, contradictory, reflective, introspective, susceptible, submissive, volatile, suggestible, duplicitous, insincere, wantonly violent, hypocritical, predatory, conflicted, divisive, credulous, resigned, dissolute, volatile, sadistic, voracious, impotent, irrational, lacking humanity or benevolence, sinister, macabre, envious, vulnerable.
Lady Macbeth: grandiose, predatory, infantile, lacking self-awareness, unfulfilled, indulged, remorseful, lacking in self-awareness, pandered to, ghoulish, unstable, unhinged, unfulfilled, envious, resentful, immature, simplistic
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Utterson: repressed, introspective, composed, self-contained, wilfully blind, myopic, secretive, inhibited, self-denying, intellectual, mute, defensive, outraged, incredulous, avoidance, loyal, rejected, jealous.
Dr Jekyll: hypocritical, self-indulgent, wanton, deceitful, charlatan, licentiousness, addictive, furtive, depraved, degenerate, a veneer of respectability, decadent, patronising, conniving, sly, cunning
Hyde: depraved, addiction, mesmerism, duplicitous, wanton rage, incendiary, agitated, inhuman, monstrous, violently expressive, sadistic, conniving, disturbed, malformed, illegible, monstrous, anti-social, physically repulsive, repugnant
Lord of the Flies.
Jack: opportunistic, unpredictable, unemphatic, conniving, depraved, wantonly violent, self-hatred, monstrous, egotistic, fragile, reckless, morally myopic, defiant. Callous, independent, reactive, volatile,
Ralph: physically expressive, charismatic, insensitive, self-regarding, transformation, self-realisation, epiphany, ironic victim, enthusiastic, fervent, finally authentic.
Piggy: natural victim, dependent, cloying, intellectual, reflective, introspective, distressed, anxious, physically vulnerable, perceptive.
Simon: outsider, inspired, perceptive, transcendent, vulnerable, messianic, visionary, morally independent.
Roger: psychopathic, sadistic, morally depraved. Hench man. Licensed brute.
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge: isolated, secretly desolate, profoundly anti-social, parsimonious, heartless, defensive, withdrawn, self-deceiving, self-protective, compensatory, malevolent, insightful, witty, resurrected, transformed, remorseful, regretful, epiphany, self-realisation, contrite, despairing, exuberant, elated, ecstatic, repentant. Teasing.
