Literary Freepers...

[devilgrrl]

Hey everyone we should come up with a list of Freepers in literature.

I'll start with Bob Ewell from'To Kill a Mockingbird'

[HEyHEY]

1. The way things ought to be

no explanation required

[devilgrrl]

3. Freeper characters in books silly!

:silly:

[Fixated]

2. ....

What was his name...Tom? In the Great Gatsby.

[Dogmudgeon]

14. Tom Buchanan

--bkl

[mitchum]

4. Flem Snopes

Pap Finn

[supernova]

5. Miss Havasham

from Great Expectations. She's an elderly od miser lader who once got jilted at the alter. Used it as an excuse to not only harden her heart for the rest of her life, but also ruin the lives of two perfectly normal kids.

[nomaco-10]

6. "Literary Freepers" is an oxymoron

they don't read books, they look at pictures in NASCAR magazines and consider themselves well read. BUWAHHAHA

[nomaco-10]

13. I guess I'm the "moran"

on this thread, I thought it was about readers, not writers of literature. I just can't get O'Reilly, Coulter and Limbaugh out of my head now, but am racking my brain to come up with a winger writer from the past. I'd have to google that one and I'm too tired and drunk tonight. Do they have to be acclaimed?

[pretzel4gore]

19. In George Orwell's' Burmese days'

there's a perfect description of a freeper....the new calvary officer who shows up in 2nd half of book. He's a rich heartless aristocrat, whose only interest is horses and horsemanship etc....he gets away with brutal acts all the time; the system can't deal with him so the army ships him here there etc....
james michener is a freeper writer imo, so is zane grey ...they're hardly literary though

[alphafemale]

7. Javert (Les Miz.) Perfect example of Freepdom in all its hateful "glory"

Also Ebenezer Scrooge...pre conversion.

[Swede]

8. Dark Helmet in Spaceballs

What? Oh that was a movie.

[alphafemale]

9. Everything Atticus Finch stood boldly against - mad dogs included

Atticus Finch is the ultimate literary Anti-Freeper.

[La_Serpiente]

10. Howabout....

Howabout Uncle Tom

[alphafemale]

11. oww. That one hurts.

But he was a freeper out of necessity...imho.

[devilgrrl]

12. I haven't read 'The Scarlet Letter' yet but...

wasn't that book crawling with freepers? What about Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' and Stanley Kowalski from 'Street Car Named Desire?"

[tishaLA]

17. yes, Chillingsworth from SL is a freeper

but he's nothing compared to House of the Seven Gables. I think Ahab in Moby Dick is a freeper too.

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. No, Ahab is not a freeper

not in my opinion, anyway. Has some republican tendancies, yes, but not a freeper.

[FlemingsGhost]

15. The ultimate Freeper, folks: Rev. Parris, (The Crucible)

A character based on McCarthy? Ain't no bigger Freep than McCarthy...

[blondeatlast]

27. Rumor has it that that is exactly right.

[pretzel4gore]

16. many of the characters in 'Babbitt'

including Babbitt's airhead daughter and the 'gee willikers mr babbitt!' new boyfriend, a tucker carlson type...
if you want a good look at freeperville, visit Zenith in Sinclair Lewis' classic, still shocking for its insight into the emptiness of the rightwing ideal...
another good one is from Dicken's 'Dombey and Son' where one guy's widow is always whining that her hubby died 'pumping out the mines in Peru' but at a dinner party repeats the lament so often to so many that the guests start to suspect that maybe the idiot 'died at the handle'as Dickens put it! hahaha
freepers are a constant source of horrified fun throughout literary history, all over the world!

[mitchum]

24. Great call on "Babbitt"...Zenith was filled with them

[FlemingsGhost]

18. How about O'Brien from "1984"?

Think Ashcroft.

[Friar]

22. yup

O'Brien = Ashcroft. These guys are so Orwellian it's scary.

[Richardo]

20. Catch 22 is loaded with freeps...

...pretty much everyone in General HQ who was not on a bomber crew. Except for the Chaplain and Major Major.
Colonel Cathcart (kept raising the number of missions for his own glory)
Colonel Korn (Catchcart's aide-de-camp)
Lieutenant/Colonel/General Sheisskopf (Empty head interested only in parades)
Colonel Black

[Wolfman 11]

21. don't forget Milo Minderbinder

bombed his own troops for a profit

[curse10]

23. Joseph from Wuthering Heights

Bible thumping freeper!

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. Raban Harkonnen

from "Dune" - the mismanager of Arrakis. Totally a freep: sadistic, stupid, unclever, unimaginative, greedy.

Vladamir - not a freeper. Feyd Ruatha - not a freeper. Both too intelligent and clever. Greedy and brutal, yes, but with restraint and understanding.

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. The Priest from "Chocolat"

(which in the movie was more represented by the mayor guy)

[SiobhanClancy]

29. Ebenezer Scrooge

Compassionate conservatism,Victorian style!:)

[Cat Atomic]

30. Saruman the White

He was more of a NeoCon, I suppose. An imperialist, genocidal creep with a passion for destroying the environment. He even based his society around a war machine.

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Good response! Yes, a freep - complete disregard for the environment,

total love of money and power, let his ideology destroy him, yada yada yada. Yes, a freeper. Though smart and clever, he did have that thuggish quality that lead freeps to their own doom.

[scarlet_owl]

32. The Once-ler from the Lorax

But he comes to a realization at the end, so maybe he isn't so republican after all.

[RandomKoolzip]

33. Any of the bad witches in the Wizard of Oz books.

No explanation necessary.

Lets not forget the Yahoos from Gulliver's Travels, either, or Machiavelli's "The Prince...."

[Iris]

34. Robert Ackley - Catcher in the Rye

A big jerk who was alleged to have never brushed his teeth!