Boredom

Boredom

See also Futility.

Aldegonde, Lord St.

bored nobleman, empty of pursuits. [Br. Lit.: Lothair]

Baudelaire, Charles

(1821–1867) French poet whose dissipated lifestyle led to inner despair. [Fr. Lit.: NCE, 248]

Bovary, Emma

housewife suffers from ennui. [Fr. Lit.: Madame Bovary]

Des Esseintes, Jean

in dissipation and isolation, develops morbid ennui. [Fr. Lit.: Against the Grain]

Harthouse, James

thorough gentleman, weary of everything. [Br. Lit.: Hard Times]

Oblomov, Ilya

Russian landowner; embodiment of physical and mental sloth. [Russ. Lit.: Oblomov]

Povey, Constance Baines

uneventful thoughts, marriage best described as routine. [Br. Lit.: The Old Wives’ Tale, Magill I, 684–686]

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