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Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).
Howard created Conan the Barbarian, in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales, a character whose pop-culture impact has been compared to such icons as Tarzan, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
Count Ladislaus de Almásy is the title character.
* Count Paris, character in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Count Dooku is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe.
A spectacle play by the Count of Villamediana and thirteen dramas by Calderon de la Barca introduce a character named Astraea to the foreground of political and astrological concerns.
* In the BBC Radio show The Goon Show, Spike Milligan plays a character called Count Jim Moriarty.
Another character, Count Riccardo Bianco, is based on the real-life count and academic, Roberto Weiss.
Lon Chaney, Jr. ( February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973 ), born Creighton Tull Chaney, son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney He was an American character actor known for playing monsters such as The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster and Count Alucard in the universal monster films.
Grimley became a cartoon character in Hanna-Barbera's 1988 animated series The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, featuring Second City colleagues Joe Flaherty ( also reprising his SCTV character, Count Floyd ), Catherine O ' Hara and Andrea Martin as series regulars.
The character M. Noirtier de Villefort in Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo apparently suffers from locked-in syndrome.
* In Chapter 60 (" The Telegraph ") of Alexandre Dumas ' The Count of Monte Cristo, the title character describes with fascination the semaphore line's moving arms.
A fictional Count Paris is a character in William Shakespeare's famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
Removing the action from Europe, the location became Boston during the British colonial period and the leading character became Riccardo, the Count ( or Earl ) of Warwick.
* Count Alucard ( character ), the title character in the 1943 film Son of Dracula and other works.
In the book, the main character Edmond Dantès ( a commoner who later purchases the noble title of Count ) and his mentor, Abbé Faria, were both imprisoned in it.
The 1963 Bugs Bunny short Transylvania 6-5000 features a brief, silent cameo appearance from Witch Hazel ( or a character very similar to her ), as Bugs transforms Count Bloodcount, the cartoon's vampire antagonist, into her through the use of a magic spell.
Count Dracula is based on the character of the same name in from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The Count was performed by Jerry Nelson, who brought the character to life.
* The Count was interviewed in character on the BBC Radio 4 economics programme More or Less on December 11, 2009, where he mentioned his favorite number, 34969.
* Australian rugby league football international Anthony Minichiello has been nicknamed ' The Count ' due to his striking resemblance to the character.
The Count of Egmont is the main character in a play by Goethe, Egmont.

character and Dracula
The descriptions of Carmilla and the character of Lucy in Dracula are similar, and have become archetypes for the appearance of the waif-like victims and seducers in vampire stories as being tall, slender, languid, and with large eyes, full lips and soft voices.
There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).
* The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova purports to be a book by the main character, and further contains a number of other letters, books, and maps relating to Dracula and the main character's friends and family.
In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
* Vincent the Vegetable Vampire: A send-up of the Bram Stoker literary character Dracula ( or of Blacula ), played by Morgan Freeman.
The character was a film noir antihero in every sense ; Gibson himself claimed the literary inspirations were Bram Stoker's Dracula and Edward Bulwer-Lytton's " The House and the Brain ".
He also played the title character in Son of Dracula ( 1943 ).
* Alucard ( Castlevania ), a character in Castlevania media and the half-human / half-vampire son of Dracula
* Alucard ( Hellsing ), the main character in Hellsing media and an alias of Dracula
* Johnny Alucard, a character in the film Dracula AD 1972
While Dracula is a central figure in the events of the series, he is a minor character in the books themselves, and usually appears in only a few climactic pages of each book.
It includes references to Taxi Driver, Ms. 45, Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Deathmaster, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, The Light at the End, Death Wish, Convoy, Vampirella, Natural Born Killers, Badlands, Nocturna, Cruising, Vampire Junction, The Addiction, and The Lost Boys, as well as taking its title from a character in the film Dracula AD 1972.
Welles also appeared as a minor character in Dracula Cha Cha Cha.
A character named Marie Laveau, based loosely on the real Marie Laveau, figures into the Marvel Universe, first appearing in Dracula Lives # 2 from 1973.
They invite him to join them, and begin to question Schreck ( in what they still believe is his vampire ' character ',) about the accuracy of the Dracula novel.
St Michael's Mount was used in the 1979 film Dracula as Castle Dracula and also in the 2003 film Johnny English as the exterior of the character Pascal Sauvage's French chateau.
( Saberhagen depicts Dracula as the historical figure Vlad Ţepeş, who as woiwode of Wallachia was known as Drakulya, who in Saberhagen's stories became a vampire by simply refusing to die, " by a transcendent act of will " as the character describes it in the book.

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Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;
But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.
For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.
Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.
This is what necessitates the nonsystematic character of his astronomy.
One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.
Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.
I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.
Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.
I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.
For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.
The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.
The theory behind this is, of course, fundamentalist in character.
The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.
The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.
A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:
The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.
He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.
No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.

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