Characters in Literature III

Can you name these characters in Literature?

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Detective Inspector from Scotland Yard appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories
Narrator and protagonist of a series of short stories as a pious Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia with six troublesome daughters, best known from 'Fiddler on the Roof'
Main charachter in an eponymous novel by Virginia Woolf, that details a day in the life of a housewife, a high-society woman in post-First World War England
The main antagonists in 'David Copperfield. Notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and insincerity, making frequent references to his own ''umbleness'
The dead court jester in Hamlet whose skull is central throughout the play
One of the Knights of the Round Table, and typically Arthur's greatest companion, the lord of Joyous Gard and the greatest swordsman and jouster of the age
Ebenezer Scrooge’s deceased business partner in 'A Christmas Carol', now a chained and tormented ghost, doomed to wander the earth forever as punishment for his greed
Nickname of a overweight, bespectacled boy in 'Lord of the Flies'
Dutch-American villager in colonial America who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution in a eponymous book
Bengal tiger that is stranded on the lifeboat with Pi when the ship sinks in 'Life of Pi'
The main antagonist in 'Beowulf' together with his mother and a dragon. He is feared by all but Beowulf, and is usually depicted as a monster or a giant
The protagonist in 'Around the World in Eighty Days'
Acts as a donkey-riding squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos
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The eldest of the four children in 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'. As High King, he had supreme authority over all subsequent monarchs which were his siblings
Venetian Jewish moneylender in 'The Merchant of Venice', and the play's principal antagonist
Member of the Fellowship of the Ring and brother of Faramir in 'Lord of the Rings'
Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, and James Bond's superior
Chinese drug syndicate villain, who disdains guns, and are rather using his triad network armed with knifes or natural chemical weapons
Psychotic motel owner and main antagonist in 'Psycho'
The central charachter in 'Heart of Darkness', an ivory trader and a demigod to the natives in Africa and a commander of a trading post
Pig in 'Animal Farm', an early leader of the animals who later came in opposition the oppressive regime of Napoleon, based on Leon Trotsky
The main antagonist of 'Treasure Island'. This charachter has greatly influenced the modern iconography of the pirate, with the parrot and the wooden leg
A classic example of anti-Semitism in literature because he is Jewish, and seduces, dominates and exploits Trilby in the George du Maurier novel
Runaway black slave who follows Huckleberry Finns raft journey down the Mississippi River
Barbaric career criminal associated with Fagin in 'Oliver Twist'

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