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brief character sketch of all the characters of the novel ' Canterville Ghost ' by Oscar Wilde ??

LORD CANTERVILLE:A member of the English aristocracy, he is a descendant of Sir Simon de Canterville—the old ghost of Canterville Chase. He is described as a man of the most punctilious honour. This becomes evident when he confesses to Mr. Otis about the presence of a ghost in Canterville Chase. He considers it his duty to warn the American about the ghost in the house that he wishes to buy. This sense of honour is on display once again when he refuses to accept the jewels gifted to Virginia Otis by the ghost.SIR SIMON THE CANTERVILLE:He is a sixteenth-century ancestor of Lord Canterville. When alive, he murders his wife, Lady Eleanore, for being a poor housekeeper. Later, he is starved to death by his wifes brothers in retribution for his crime. His skeleton, chained in a little room, is discovered in the late nineteenth century by the American residents of the house. For three hundred years, the disembodied spirit of Sir Simon roams Canterville Chase, haunting and terrorising its inhabitants. He takes especial pleasure in frightening his relations. He goes about his nocturnal expeditions with a strong sense of duty. It is the sole reason for his existence. He takes pride in scaring people to insanity and death. He delights in recalling his long list of victims and his different ghostly attires such as the Blood-Sucker of Bexley Moor, the Headless Earl and Jonas the Graveless.Mr. HIRAM B. OTIS:He is the American ambassador to the royal court of England. He is a rational and pragmatic American Republican. He comes from a modern country which has everything that can be bought. He refuses to believe that Canterville Chase is haunted despite what his acquaintances say. Later, however, after the constant reappearance of the bloodstain in the library, he has to accept the existence of the disembodied spirit.MRS. LUCRETIA OTIS:She is the wife of the American ambassador to the royal court of England. Before marriage, she was called Miss Lucretia R. Tappan and was well known for her beauty. She is described as a very handsome, middle-aged woman, with fine eyes, and a superb profile. The author praises her for having a magnificent constitution and a really wonderful amount of animal spirits. He says that on this account she was more English than American.WASHINGTON OTIS:He is the eldest of the Otis children. We are told that Washington, named after the first President of the United States, does not like his name very much. He is described as fair-haired, good-looking and an excellent dancer. He is said to display an excessive fondness towards the nobility. This sets him apart from his father who does not approve of titles and the enfeebling influences of the pleasure-loving aristocracyVIRGINIA OTIS:She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis. She was born in a London suburb shortly after Mrs. Otis returned from a trip to Athens. She is athletic and free-spirited, with golden hair and large blue eyes. She is a good rider who once raced and beat Lord Bilton. Virginia is shown to have a sense of right and wrong. She censures the ghost for murdering his poor wife. She has a great regard for her family. So, she takes offence when the ghost calls her family horrid, rude, vulgar, dishonest.THE OTIS TWINS:They are the youngest members of the Otis family. They study at Eton, an English boarding school. We are told that The Star and Stripes—a reference to the American flag—is the nickname for the twin brothers. They prove to be the Canterville ghosts nemeses. They attack him with pillows and pea shooters. They dress up as ghosts to scare him off his wits. They set trip wires and butter slides in different parts of the house to make him fall.
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Sir Simon Canterville--The Canterville Ghost The titular character has at various times in history engaged in the act of haunting his ancestral home—Canterville Chase—under a selection of different sobriquets over the centuries from the relatively innocuous The Headless Earl to the downright wicked-sound Gaunt Gibeon, the Blood-sucker of Bexley Moor. Whatever the name applies to his spectral resurrection, it always comes back to the spirit of the same non-ethereal personage of Sir Simon Canterville who met a violent death at the hands of his brothers-in-law as retributive justice for murdering their sister. Virginia Otis Yes, Virginia Otis is an American. A fifteen year old American girl who rather astonishingly combines extraordinary physical beauty with extraordinarily puritanical character. The former attribute thoroughly charms the Duke of Cheshire while the latter is the source of frustration. Virginia is a bit of out an outlier at first compared to the rest of her family’s reaction to the ghost. She is rather content to simply try helping Sir Simon overcome the rattle of his chains and the unpleasantness of his scratchy manner of speaking. Virginia is the redemptive spirit in this ghostly tale with the ghost taking on the role of the cranky old man in need of purification. Duke of Cheshire Ultimately the lovesick puppy-like Cecil, Duke of Cheshire, wins the heart of the object of his affection. Upon hearing that Virginia has vanished without a trace, he races back to Canterville Chase from the campus of Eton to join the desperate search. Such devotion is assuredly deserving of a reward and he and Virginia marry. Though rewarded with her heart, he is now allowed access to her one great secret and must live without ever knowing exactly what happened during her disappearance with the Canterville Ghost. Horace B. Otis Horace is Virginia’s dad and he fits the British stereotype of the loud, pragmatic and rather unimaginative American which was the predominant image among Britons at the time. Wilde’s novel exists more to satirize certain stereotypes than to scare readers and Horace Otis fills that bill to a tee, especially when his reaction to a traditional Victorian ghost is the suggestion that invest in some lubricant to keep those chains quite at night. Lucretia Tappan Otis Sir Simon’s take Mrs. Otis is that she is representative of the crass materialism that differentiates an American of means from the refinement that characters member of the British aristocracy. He’s right, of course, but his means of arriving at this particular definition of her character is as misplaced as those that other Britons use to stereotype Americans…and vice versa. What is most frustrating to the ghost, of course, is that Lucretia seems remarkably unaffected by his best attempts to scare the crude interlopers from across the pond out of his distinctly British domicile. Stars and Stripes The rather peculiar appellation applied to the youngest members of the Otis household: the twins. These twins are not nearly as frightening as those in The Shining, but infinitely more irritating. They are the ultimate personification of the image of the American child raised without benefit of proper English discipline. Hellions, they are, who regularly assault the ghost with weapons like peashooters and nuts lobbed in his direction. The Stars and Stripes also represent the flip side of the American character; their wildness directly allows them to express the creative spark within by actually creating their own ghost using things found around the castle.
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LORD CANTERVILLE:A member of the English aristocracy, he is a descendant of Sir Simon de Canterville—the old ghost of Canterville Chase. He is described as a man of the most punctilious honour. This becomes evident when he confesses to Mr. Otis about the presence of a ghost in Canterville Chase. He considers it his duty to warn the American about the ghost in the house that he wishes to buy. This sense of honour is on display once again when he refuses to accept the jewels gifted to Virginia Otis by the ghost.SIR SIMON THE CANTERVILLE:He is a sixteenth-century ancestor of Lord Canterville. When alive, he murders his wife, Lady Eleanore, for being a poor housekeeper. Later, he is starved to death by his wifes brothers in retribution for his crime. His skeleton, chained in a little room, is discovered in the late nineteenth century by the American residents of the house. For three hundred years, the disembodied spirit of Sir Simon roams Canterville Chase, haunting and terrorising its inhabitants. He takes especial pleasure in frightening his relations. He goes about his nocturnal expeditions with a strong sense of duty. It is the sole reason for his existence. He takes pride in scaring people to insanity and death. He delights in recalling his long list of victims and his different ghostly attires such as the Blood-Sucker of Bexley Moor, the Headless Earl and Jonas the Graveless.Mr. HIRAM B. OTIS:He is the American ambassador to the royal court of England. He is a rational and pragmatic American Republican. He comes from a modern country which has everything that can be bought. He refuses to believe that Canterville Chase is haunted despite what his acquaintances say. Later, however, after the constant reappearance of the bloodstain in the library, he has to accept the existence of the disembodied spirit.MRS. LUCRETIA OTIS:She is the wife of the American ambassador to the royal court of England. Before marriage, she was called Miss Lucretia R. Tappan and was well known for her beauty. She is described as a very handsome, middle-aged woman, with fine eyes, and a superb profile. The author praises her for having a magnificent constitution and a really wonderful amount of animal spirits. He says that on this account she was more English than American.WASHINGTON OTIS:He is the eldest of the Otis children. We are told that Washington, named after the first President of the United States, does not like his name very much. He is described as fair-haired, good-looking and an excellent dancer. He is said to display an excessive fondness towards the nobility. This sets him apart from his father who does not approve of titles and the enfeebling influences of the pleasure-loving aristocracyVIRGINIA OTIS:She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis. She was born in a London suburb shortly after Mrs. Otis returned from a trip to Athens. She is athletic and free-spirited, with golden hair and large blue eyes. She is a good rider who once raced and beat Lord Bilton. Virginia is shown to have a sense of right and wrong. She censures the ghost for murdering his poor wife. She has a great regard for her family. So, she takes offence when the ghost calls her family horrid, rude, vulgar, dishonest.THE OTIS TWINS:They are the youngest members of the Otis family. They study at Eton, an English boarding school. We are told that The Star and Stripes—a reference to the American flag—is the nickname for the twin brothers. They prove to be the Canterville ghosts nemeses. They attack him with pillows and pea shooters. They dress up as ghosts to scare him off his wits. They set trip wires and butter slides in different parts of the house to make him fall.
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