Words derived from characters in popular literature

• Quixotic : Don Quixote, hero of a romance by Miguel de Cervantes [Meaning :  Capricious, impulsive]
• Panglossian : After Pangloss, an optimist in Candide, a satire by Voltaire. [Meaning : Blindly or naively optimistic]
• Uncle tom :  After Uncle Tom, a character in Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe [Meaning :  to be excessively obedient or servile]
• Sheherazade : (the legendary Persian queen and gifted storyteller of The One Thousand and One Nights – the word is used to mean a person gifted with the art of storytelling). [meaning : a good story teller]
• Quasimodo : (the main character in Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Quasimodo is a deformed and ugly hunchback under whose grotesque exterior lies a heart of gold – the word is used to mean a person who, though ugly to look at, is of good and courageous character).
• Walter Mitty : (the fictional character in James Thurber's short story "The secret life of Walter Mitty", a henpecked husband who copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airplane pilot, a brilliant doctor, and other dashing figures – the term is used to mean one who is prone to daydream, of being in fantastic situations).