What is the first name of the Dickens character Micawber?
"(2007), Justice Souter criticized the court for an approach to pleading that ""would dispense with any showing of a reasonably founded hope that a plaintiff would be able to make a case; Mr. Micawber's optimism would be enough."" The character of Wilkins Micawber has given rise to the English noun ""Micawber"" and the adjectives ""Micawberish"" and ""Micawberesque."" The ""Merriam-Webster Dictionary"" defines a Micawber as ""one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune."" Judge David Halpern described Craig Whyte's legal arguments in a case heard in 2013 as ""pure Micawberism."" Besides the Micawber Principle, Micawber is notable"
"Richards is known to be a fan of Dickens. Of the unusual moniker attached to the instrument, Richards said, ""There's no reason for my guitar being called Micawber, apart from the fact that it's such an unlikely name. There's no one around me called Micawber, so when I scream for Micawber everyone knows what I'm talking about."" In addition, the character formed the basis of ""Micawber"", a 2001 ITV drama series written by John Sullivan and starring David Jason in the title leading role. In the U.S. Supreme Court opinion of Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 562"
"wrongly that Micawber's debts arise from dishonesty. But working for Heep allows Micawber to expose his boss as a forger and a cheat. To start anew, Micawber and his family emigrate to Australia with Daniel Peggotty and Little Em'ly, where Micawber becomes manager of the Port Middlebay Bank and a successful government magistrate. In Hablot Knight Browne's illustrations for the first edition, Micawber is shown wearing knee-breeches, a top hat, and a monocle. Micawber was modelled on Dickens' father, John Dickens. Micawber is known for asserting his faith that ""something will turn up."" His name has become synonymous with someone"
"who lives in hopeful expectation. This has formed the basis for the Micawber Principle, based upon his observation in Chapter 12: The amounts quoted are equivalent to £20, £19 97½p and £20 2½p, in the United Kingdom's present currency. The character was played by W.C. Fields in the 1935 screen classic, ""Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger"". Bob Hoskins took the role in a 1999 BBC serial. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones named one of his guitars (an early 1950s Fender Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucking pickup installed in the neck position) ""Micawber."""
"undo his mental conditioning. Bendt Micawber (the CEO of Acme Corporation and the descendant of Mr. Micawber from ""David Copperfield"") cites his survival as dereliction of duty. Receiving a plastic prosthetic leg as well as his pension as compensation, Greatheart is fired from Acme. During his recovery, Greatheart's fiancee breaks up with him and his Sioux grandmother sends him a birdcage with two ravens inside. He names them Huginn and Muninn after the Norse god Odin's all-seeing ravens. Using his skills with computers to alter his records and receive a glowing reference from Micawber, Greatheart is soon employed by the"
"wrote them incorrectly through negligence; however, it is later revealed he was drugged by his father-in-law who deliberately altered the numbers on Micawber's accounts to frame him. The rest of the series follows Micawber attempting a series of different careers. These include working for a newspaper and later as butler until the lady of the house seduces him and he is challenged to a duel by her husband. Micawber escapes this by faking his own death. In a subplot, the Micawbers adopt a now orphaned workhouse girl, Alice, despite struggling to support their own family. However, this virtue is rewarded"
"the stationmaster at Strensall, he lived for a time in York where he was visited by his elder brother Charles in December 1847. His Micawber and family are no literary invention. Dickens found the prototype for this larger than life eccentric in York on one of his visits to see his younger brother. After Birkinshaw was appointed Consulting Engineer to the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway, authorised in 1846, the younger Dickens moved to Derwent Cottage, Norton, to be nearer to the work site and his office in the Market Place at Malton, from which he provided the local supervision"
"to ""Doom."" Ikkemotubbe Ikkemotubbe is a fictional Chickasaw Indian chief living in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. He appears in novels and short stories of William Faulkner, such as in the collection of stories titled ""III The Wilderness"": ""Red Leaves,"" ""A Justice,"" and ""A Courtship"". He is referenced extensively in Faulkner's popular classic 'The Bear"" as the original owner of the land that was sold to Carothers McCaslin, the first white landowner of the woods in which the story takes place. After a steamboat trip to New Orleans, his name is ""Frenchified"" to ""L'Homme"" or ""De l'Homme"" ('The Man'), which he himself"
"Ikkemotubbe Ikkemotubbe is a fictional Chickasaw Indian chief living in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. He appears in novels and short stories of William Faulkner, such as in the collection of stories titled ""III The Wilderness"": ""Red Leaves,"" ""A Justice,"" and ""A Courtship"". He is referenced extensively in Faulkner's popular classic 'The Bear"" as the original owner of the land that was sold to Carothers McCaslin, the first white landowner of the woods in which the story takes place. After a steamboat trip to New Orleans, his name is ""Frenchified"" to ""L'Homme"" or ""De l'Homme"" ('The Man'), which he himself later re-Anglicizes"
"project and would eventually move with Jason to ITV, producing a loose four-part series called ""Micawber"" in 2001 with Jason in the title role. Lyndhurst remained with the production to play Uriah Heep and the role of Micawber was taken up by Bob Hoskins. David Copperfield is a posthumous child. He was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, six months after the death of his father, who was also called David Copperfield. On the night of David's birth, his Great-Aunt Betsey Trotwood arrives at the ""Rookery"" - the Copperfield family home - and eagerly anticipates the birth of a baby girl. She"
"John Dickens John Dickens (21 August 1785 – 31 March 1851) was the father of English novelist Charles Dickens and was the model for Mr Micawber in his son's semi-autobiographical novel ""David Copperfield"". The son of William Dickens (1719–1785) and Elizabeth Ball (1745–1824), John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth in Hampshire. On 13 June 1809 at St Mary le Strand, London, he married Elizabeth Barrow, with whom he had eight children. He was later transferred to London and then to Chatham, returning to live in Camden Town in London in 1822 to work"
"Elizabeth Dickens Elizabeth Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 13 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son's novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and for Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"". One of eight children of Mary Culliford (1771–1851) and Charles Barrow (1759–1826), Elizabeth Barrow was introduced to John Dickens by her brother, Thomas Culliford Barrow, when the two men were working at the Navy Pay Office in nearby Somerset House. When John Dickens first met Elizabeth she was ""a small pretty girl"
"landlord, Wilkins Micawber, is arrested for debt and sent to the King's Bench Prison, where he remains for several months, before being released and moving to Plymouth. No one remains to care for David in London, so he decides to run away. He walks from London to Dover, to his only relative, his eccentric yet kind-hearted great-aunt Betsey Trotwood. She had come to Blunderstone at his birth, only to depart in ire upon learning that he was not a girl. However, she takes pity on him and agrees to raise him, despite Murdstone's attempt to regain custody of David, on"
"Young Siward Young Siward is a character in William Shakespeare’s play ""Macbeth"" (1606). He is the son of Siward, general of the English forces in the battle against Macbeth. Macbeth kills him in the final battle, shortly before his swordfight with Lord Macduff. He is based on the real-life historical figure of Osbeorn Bulax. He first appears in scene 5.2, as the English forces join with the Scottish. Lennox refers to him as one of many “unrough youths” who “protest their first of manhood.” If he is an “unrough” youth, then he is too young to grow a beard and"
"""scrooge"", for example, is a miser – or someone who dislikes Christmas festivity. His characters were often so memorable that they took on a life of their own outside his books. ""Gamp"" became a slang expression for an umbrella from the character Mrs Gamp, and ""Pickwickian"", ""Pecksniffian"", and ""Gradgrind"" all entered dictionaries due to Dickens's original portraits of such characters who were, respectively, quixotic, hypocritical, and vapidly factual. Many were drawn from real life: Mrs Nickleby is based on his mother, though she didn't recognise herself in the portrait, just as Mr Micawber is constructed from aspects of his father's"
"As the events unfold, Bradley falls in love with Eleanor Mowbray but she is in love with her cousin, Ranulph Rookwood. At his grandfather's promptings, Bradley ditches his love, a gypsy named Sybil Lovel, to pursue and try to force Mowbray into marriage. While this happens, the character Dick Turpin, a highwayman and thief, is introduced at the manor, under the pseudonym Palmer. While there, he makes a bet with one of the guests that he could capture himself. Eventually, Turpin is forced to escape upon his horse, Black Bess. The horse, though fast enough to keep ahead of all"
"to see great distances in the dark, even further than Elves. Tuck Underbank Tuckerby Underbank is the main character in Dennis L. McKiernan's Mithgar novel ""The Iron Tower"". Tuckerby Underbank was born to an ordinary Warrow family in the Boskydells, and apparently had the same carefree upbringing as any other Warrow child. He became fast friends with several other young Warrows, including Danner Bramblethorn and his dammia Merrilee. However, when an unnaturally bitter winter falls over all of Mithgar, Tuck began training as a Thornwalker and soon became one of the best archers. After being assigned to the Spindlethorn, Tuck"
"fictionalised as Young Siward in the tragedy ""Macbeth"" by William Shakespeare. Osbeorn Bulax Osbeorn (died c. 1054), given the nickname Bulax, was the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria (died 1055). He is one of two known sons — probably the older — of Siward. While it is normally assumed he was the son of Siward's Bamburgh wife Ælfflæd, it has been suggested by William Kapelle that Osbeorn's mother was not Ælfflæd. The nickname ""Bulax"" probably represents the Old Norse term for ""Poleaxe"". According to the most reliable sources, he died at the Battle of the Seven Sleepers, fought somewhere"
"WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 12TH 1863 AGED 73 YEARS"". Charles Dickens used his mother as the source for the vain, ineffectual and verbally comic Mrs. Nickleby in his novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and for Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"". Elizabeth Dickens Elizabeth Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 13 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son's novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and for Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"". One of eight children of Mary Culliford (1771–1851) and Charles Barrow (1759–1826), Elizabeth Barrow was"
"write ""Catão"", in 1821. The play was premiered on 29. September of the same year, celebrating the anniversary of the 1820 Liberal Revolution, in Portugal, by a group of Portuguese liberal intellectuals. It was staged a few times in Portugal, the following years, always by amateurs. In 1828, it had the British premiere, in Plymouth, by a group of exiled officers and intellectuals, reviewed by British newspapers. ""Catão"" had its first edition in 1822. There were four other editions, being one of them in London, in 1828. Wilkins Micawber, a character in the 1850 novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens,"
"Captain Ahab Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship ""Pequod"". On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone. The whaling voyage of the ""Pequod"" ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags Ahab to the bottom of"
"Abel Magwitch Abel Magwitch is a fictional character from Charles Dickens's 1861 novel, ""Great Expectations"". Charles Dickens set his story in about 1800, setting his character Abel Magwitch to meet a man called Compeyson at the Epsom Races. Compeyson, Dickens wrote, had been brought up in a boarding school and was an attractive, charming gentleman. Magwitch, at the same time, began a relationship with a mentally unstable woman named Molly, who later stood trial for murder. Jaggers, her defense attorney, convinced the jury that she was too weak to have strangled the woman. Molly was acquitted and became (unknown to"
"to Freddie Bartholomew after an extensive talent search in Canada and Great Britain by Selznick and George Cukor. Cedric Gibbons designed a recreation of 19th century London on the MGM backlot. The scenes set outside Aunt Betsey's house atop the white cliffs of Dover were filmed at Malibu. MGM even filmed the exterior of Canterbury Cathedral, which only appears in the film for less than a minute. Special effects, including many matte shots, were by Slavko Vorkapić. Charles Laughton was originally cast in the role of Mr. Micawber, and was authentically made-up with a bald cap, since Dickens describes the"
"morning Ishmael and Queequeg head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up for a voyage on the whaler ""Pequod"", under Captain Ahab. Ahab is obsessed by the white whale, Moby Dick, who on a previous voyage has severed his leg. In his quest for revenge Ahab has lost all sense of responsibility, and when the whale sinks the ship, all crewmembers drown, with the exception of Ishmael: “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” (Job) says the epigraph. Ishmael keeps himself afloat on a coffin until he is picked up by another whaling ship, the ""Rachel"". The name Ishmael is"
"Ebenezer Scrooge Ebenezer Scrooge () is the protagonist of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella, ""A Christmas Carol"". At the beginning of the novella, Scrooge is a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas. Dickens describes him thus: ""The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice."" His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy. The tale of his redemption by the three Ghosts of Christmas (Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost"
"Moby Dick (whale) Moby Dick is a fictional sperm whale who is the main antagonist in Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. Melville based the fictional whale partially on a real albino whale of that period called Mocha Dick. Ishmael describes Moby Dick as having two prominent white areas around “a peculiar snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump,” the rest of his body being of stripes and patches between white and gray. The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of ninety feet"
"Tom Sawyer and Andrew Jackson, better than they know George F. Babbitt, and any amount better than they know such world figures as Mr. Micawber and Don Quixote. They know him, in fact, almost as well as they know their own weaknesses."" Because of the popularity of Webster's character, the term ""milquetoast"" came into general usage in American English to mean ""weak and ineffectual"" or ""plain and unadventurous"". When the term is used to describe a person, it typically indicates someone of an unusually meek, bland, soft or submissive nature, who is easily overlooked, written off, and who may also"
"long dead. But Arthur Lowe's Micawber is better than anything. He follows W. C. Fields in certain respects, but is graciously spoken; and his gestures are as delicate as Oliver Hardy's. Not that his performance is eclectic - it is a subtle unity like everything he attempts."" David Copperfield (1974 TV serial) David Copperfield is a British six-part television serial of the Charles Dickens novel adapted by Hugh Whitemore, directed by Joan Craft and first shown on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974. It was a co-production with Time-Life Television Productions. This version was generally well received."
"leads the people in peace and prosperity, until he is murdered by agents of Ptolemy, son of Abubus, who had been named governor of the region by the Macedonian Greeks. He is succeeded by his son, John Hyrcanus. The name ""Maccabee"" in Hebrew, means ""hammer"". This is properly applied to the first leader of the revolt, Judas, third son of Mattathias, whose attacks were ""hammer-like"". The name came to be used for his brothers as well, which accounts for the title of the book. The Name ""Maccabee"" can also be derived from the first letters of each word מי כמוכה"
"Ishmael (Moby-Dick) Ishmael is a fictional character in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"" (1851). Ishmael, the only surviving crewmember of the ""Pequod"", is the narrator of the book. His importance relies on his role as narrator; as a character, he is only a minor participant in the action and the main protagonist is Captain Ahab. The Biblical name has come to symbolize orphans, exiles, and social outcasts. Because he was the first person narrator, most of the criticism of ""Moby-Dick"" either confused Ishmael with the author himself or overlooked him. From the mid-twentieth century onward, critics distinguished Ishmael from Melville, establishing the"
"Dennis, Gnasher, Minnie the Minx and Roger the Dodger. 'Erbert, whose real name is Herbert Henry Hoover is a short-sighted boy, who struggles to see even with his spectacles. Except for Cuthbert, the rest of the class have fun swapping his thick-rimmed glasses with others and seeing the resultant mayhem. In older strips, the character is sometimes called Herbert instead of 'Erbert. 'Erbert is considered the least-mischievous student, Beano Top Trumps – Erbert is least menacing of all Bash Street Kids and is said to resemble a human mole. His short-sightedness is shared by his parents, who have ended up"
"the subject. His grandfather, Harry Jackson, calls him ""Bud"" or ""Buddy"". Most of his friends and colleagues call him by his last name MacGyver or simply ""Mac"". In the final season his first name is canonically revealed to be Angus when, while knocked unconscious and hallucinating, he meets a 7th-century man named Angus M'Iver (""son of Ingmarr"") and admits that they share their first name. This revelation is repeated in the series finale, which introduces MacGyver's son as having the middle name Angus, as well as on the packaging of the ""MacGyver"" DVD season sets. MacGyver's birthdate is given as"
"Macduff's son Macduff's son is a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy ""Macbeth"" (1606). His name and age are not established in the text, however he is estimated to be 7–10 years of age, and is often named as Andrew, for ease. He follows Shakespeare's typical child character; cute and clever. While Lady Macduff and her children are mentioned in ""Holinshed's Chronicles"" as the innocent victims of Macbeth's cruelty, Shakespeare is completely responsible for developing Macduff's son as a character. The boy appears in only one scene (4.2), in which he briefly banters with his mother and is then murdered by"