Characters of Agrippine

The characters of the series of Cartoon Agrippine of Claire Bretécher are caricatures of the adolescent and adults of our time. The character of the adults can be also interpreted as a caricature of mentality " soixante-huitarde ".

Characters

Agrippine : it is heroin éponyme of the series. It is an young girl in full crisis of adolescence, with all that implies: existential questions about the direction of the life, curiosity with respect to sexuality, curiosity about the boys, chatterings interminable with the girlfriends, the rumors, the quarrels with the parents,… It does not have any precise project for the future and is not interested in large-thing. She regrets that his/her parents did not divorce when they on the occasion of it because that would have given him 2 times more gifts with Christmas and the birthdays. Agrippine would have been baptized thus by reference to the historical character of Agrippine the Young person, celebrates empoisonneuse.

Shepherdess Leprince : it is the best friend of Agrippine, which calls it " Cod-sauce-verte". Both swore of all to be said, especially about the boys. Shepherdess invests herself enormously in the humanitarian, although in unusual sections like the reintegration of the old delinquents. She complexes enormously on her little of chest. It is it, which, the first of both, " conclut" with a boy, Mirtil Galère, which causes the jealousy of Agrippine ( Agrippine takes vapor )

Modern Mesclun : this boy is the eternal in love readjusted with Agrippine, with the reason which he dribbles. He hopelessly tries to point out himself whole world and plays the philosophers (" Nothing serious was thought between Plato and Modern Mesclun"). Its way of speaking in Agrippine is sometimes with double agreement (" You know that you can count on me the day when you want to be given to fond" while speaking about data-processing courses). He and Agrippine failed " conclure" once.

Robin of Thimble-Balzac : " Insane mytho megalomaniac nympho" as his/her classmates define it, it is an young girl obsessed by her physique. She wants to become signal-model in spite of her body later frankly… rondouillet. She is particularly lying and tells with everyone that she knows the stars most famous who are, of course, all in love with her. She also believes that any boy who looks at it even puts at fantasmer on her in tomb in love. She was made inflate the lips with collagen.

Psyché Shit : second better friend of Agrippine

Morose the Mince : 1st boy with whom Agrippine leaves, it affects the nonconformism until the absurdity. He learns in Agrippine with " non-être".

Mirtil Galère : he leaves with Bergère ( Agrippine takes vapor ), then with Agripinne at the end of the same album.

Muflée Madredios : young girl anorexic of the age of Agrippine. She integrates the sect into Raymonde in the album of the same name and finishes crushed by a bronze drainer after a very severe fast.

Canaan Linchbage : data processing specialist appeared in Agrippine and the ancestor . He and Agrippine have the love at first sight at the point of " conclure" without waiting on the bed of Zonzon. In Agrippine and the sect with Raymonde , it integrates a sect and tries to make there enter Agrippine whereas she has just left it.

Hen : it is the mother of Agrippine, therefore it is it which must face the crisis of adolescence of his/her daughter. She endeavors to stoically take the various bizarreries of her offspring but arrives there only thanks to one good daily amount of calming. It is lawyer.

Whiting : husband of Hen and thus father of Agrippine. He and Hen failed to divorce when Agrippine was small but Merlan did not remain with the woman with whom it had left. Since, him and Hen do not address any more the word, except in the event of urgency (of the Agrippine kind which is obliging). Whiting is writer; its works often have as a subject molluscs. It is very protective for his daughter and has evil to see it growing and becoming a woman.

Biron : little brother and pet peeve of Agrippine. He and his/her sister is typed mutually on the nerves, Agrippine not supporting its humor " wee-caca" and Biron adoring to cause it. Biron must be approximately 8 years old, but is already very gifted to earn money, for example by organizing paying visits with its very old great-grandmother.

Granny : hen mother, it is a grandmother dynamic, always ready to leave on a journey and to discover new horizons. One knows that she was married with a Communist, which his/her own mother did not forgive him.

Zonzon : great-grandmother of Agrippine, appeared in Agrippine and the ancestor . She has 95 years and half, forgets the first names of the members of her family, but remains very gifted in calculation mental and open on the computing world. She does not love the animals.

Uncle Jean-Semi : of its true name Jean-Million, it is the Hen brother. He hates his first name and wants that it is called Scott. He is mathematics professor.

The vocabulary of Agrippine

gnolgui : boy
to conclude: to have sexual relationships
biomanes: parents
penitentiary: college
slaughter-house: old people's home
dwarf: Biron, by extension any child
nuigrav: cigarette (" harms the santé" seriously;)
pouffe: girl
half: half-brother or double half-sister
: brother or sister
to be in heap: to be in couple

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