Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish.
Top Ten Rebels in Literature (characters or authors) in no particular order:
• Romeo and Juliet from “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare were probably the fist lovers in the history of literature to rebel against their family and to follow their hearts.
• John Galt from “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand the character who led a revolt against leaches, people who do not create anything and what to live off creators such as John Galt himself, shaming them in the process
• Bilbo Baggins from “The Hobbit or There and Back Again” by J.R.R. Tolkien was the first hobbit ever to go on adventure, a rebel against the tradition of his people.
• D-503 from “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin involuntary rebel that quite accidently “have developed a soul.”
• Lisbeth Salander from “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson, the girl that shaked the whole Sweden, their bureaucrats and SAPO, fighting for her freedom and a chance to be herself.
• The Narrator from “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk was a rebel against a desolate consumer society.
• Planet Pyrrus from “Deathworld” by Harry Harrison, the planet that revolts against its colonists.
• Peter Pan from “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie, the boy who refuse to grow up, a rebel against human nature.
• Holden Caulfield from “The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger, a typical at least to me, but so carefully drawn by Salinger teen rebel against whole adult society.
• Betty Friedan with her “The Feminine Mystique” a rebel for the freedom of the half of human population. The person who described “the problem that has no name.” And a author of one of the most influential nonfiction books that started the second-wave feminism in the United States.
