* Estella Havisham, a character in Charles Dickens ' novel Great Expectations

Estella Havisham ( best known in literature simply as Estella ) is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations.

In a way, Estella is a character to be pitied, and even through her actions, we can see that she is still a victim of Miss Havisham's cruel vengeance.

" A line in this song mentions the character by name, reading " And I never had a good time, I sat my bedside, with papers and poetry about Estella.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

Illustration by Gilbert Wilkinson of Miss Marple from the December 1927 issue of The Royal Magazine and the first-known image of the character ( See The Thirteen Problems # First publication of stories | The Thirteen Problems )

The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

In 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by Inge Langen in a West German television adaptation of The Murder at the Vicarage ( Mord im Pfarrhaus ).

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

* Miss Madrigal, a character in the play The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold

Writer Damon Runyon allegedly based the character Sky Masterson, the gambler-hero of " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " ( on which the musical " Guys and Dolls " is based ), on Thompson.

Both treat their own lives like those of heroines in fantastical works of fiction, with Miss Morland likening herself to a character in a Gothic novel and young Briony Tallis writing her own melodramatic stories and plays with central characters such as " spontaneous Arabella " based on herself.

* Miss Brahms, a fictional character from the British comedy show, Are You Being Served?

* Little Miss Quick, a Little Miss character

This reading is based on a connection between Y. T., a major character in Snow Crash, and the aged neo-Victorian Miss Matheson in The Diamond Age, who drops oblique references to her past as a hard-edged skateboarder.

In the 1985 film adaptation of the board game Clue, the character of Miss Scarlet cites Perry Mason to highlight Wadsworth's ( played by Tim Curry ) crime-solving capabilities.

The only unusually coated kitten in the litter was ultimately placed with breeder, Jeri Newman, who named her Miss DePesto ( after a curly-haired character in the TV series Moonlighting played by Allyce Beasley ).

In early 2003, Lady Miss Kier, formerly of the band Deee-Lite, initiated a lawsuit against Sega corporation for allegedly stealing her former persona and using it as the basis of a video game character.

Miss Havisham's Fire ( 1979, revised 2001 ) is an opera composed by Dominick Argento with a libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour, based on Dickens ' character.

Initially, the character follows the role of her literary counterpart fairly closely ( aside from her constant, unnecessarily vulgar epithets ) until the story finally deviates from Dickens ' original, revealing Miss Havisham's intent to use the " Genesis device "- a machine that will transfer her mind into Estella's body so that she might continue to break hearts for another generation.

How explicit such factors have been historically is evident in any chronology of restrictive covenant cases or in a review of NAREB's Code of Ethics Article 34 in the Code, adopted in 1924, states that `` a Realtor should never be instrumental in introducing into a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy, members of any race or nationality or any individuals whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values in that neighborhood ''.

The proposed encoding does not use the lexical encoding model used in the existing ISO-IR / 169 registered character set, but instead applies the Unicode and ISO character-glyph model to the Bliss-character model already adopted by BCI, since this would significantly reduce the number of needed characters.

Chaplin adopted the character permanently, and attempted to make suggestions for the films he appeared in.

The character of Don Quixote became so well known in its time that the word quixotic was quickly adopted by many languages.

Though Fascism adopted a number of positions designed to appeal to reactionaries, the Fascists sought to maintain Fascism's revolutionary character, with Angelo Oliviero Olivetti saying " Fascism would like to be conservative, but it will by being revolutionary.

On the other hand, Mesa designers adopted the left-pointing arrow '←' character, which took the place of underscore in the Alto keyboard, for the assignment operator.

After losing the rights to Oswald, Disney felt the need to develop a new character to replace him, which was based on a mouse he had adopted as a pet while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas City.

Besides arguing that Arlequin be a character of Sufi origins, Idries Shah also wrote a chapter of The Sufis on the sufi influence over Saint Francis, arguing him having adopted the patched robe as his only garment was a clear example of a sufi influence ( Shah, I.

Shakespeare was either unaware of or indifferent to this, and adopted, then adapted some of their features, including the five act structure and the aforementioned train of bad decisions, culminating in an eventual ' stoic calm ' of the protagonist, in which the character virtuously accepts the consequences of their error ( s )-" Lay on, Macduff ," in " Macbeth ".

Galvanized sheet fixed to wooden or steel members are mostly adopted in works of temporary character.

Even after its elementary character had been settled by Davy, he persisted in using the atomic weights he himself had adopted, even when they had been superseded by the more accurate determinations of other chemists.

Michif emerged in the early 19th century as a mixed language ( not to be confused with a creole ), and adopted a consistent character between about 1820 and 1840.

In some forms of fiction, the pen name adopted is the name of the lead character, to suggest to the reader that the book is a ( fictional ) autobiography.

For the first time in Dutch history, the constitution that was adopted in 1798 had a genuinely democratic character ( despite the fact that it was pushed through after a coup d ' état ).

* Dean McDermott as Brent Michaels ( season 5 recurring ; McDermott also guest starred in season 2 as the ' real ' Liam Kincaid, the man whose name the series ' main character had adopted )

A character reports the fate of the generation ship Vanguard, from Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky, whereby it was found derelict in space, but the survivors ( descendants of the characters from Orphans ) have adopted a hunter-gatherer lifestyle on another planet.

English singer Julia Gilbert adopted the name of the film's main character when recording for the London-based él record label in the late 1980s.

For instance, Govannon, one of the names with which Garner addresses Nastrond, has been adopted from the mythological character of Govannon ap Dun.

It was made using modern computer animation, and adopted the French approach of each character having its own voice rather than using a narrator.

It tells the story of a young pool hustler, Edward " Fast Eddie " Felson, who challenges the legendary Minnesota Fats ( a fictional character, not to be confused with Rudolf " Minnesota Fats " Wanderone, who later adopted the nickname as his own ).

VME was viewed as primarily competing with the System / 360 IBM mainframe as a commercial operating system, and adopted the EBCDIC character encoding.

Freed both adopted this name and used a recorded howl to give his early broadcasts a unique character.

Freed not only adopted the name but used the recording of a howl to give his early broadcasts a unique character since he was featuring African-American music that was getting a great reception from America's White teenagers.

The character was adopted to comics of Italian artists in the 1950s and has since then appeared in various European Disney comic book stories, especially in Italy.

In his first appearance he was voiced by Mel Blanc who gave him a nasal-like voice, but later, Mel adopted an accent resembling Received Pronunciation for the character.