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Clara
Clara Clara resonates with the Latin ideal of claritas — brightness, renown, and moral transparency — a name that Saint Clare of Assisi charged with the additional meaning of radical clarity of purpose. In Victorian literature the name was frequently given to characters of uncomplicated goodness whose clarity of feeling cuts through the hypocrisies of the social world. It suits heroines who are underestimated precisely because their virtues read as simplicity.
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Famous characters named Clara
Clara
The Nutcracker — E.T.A. Hoffmann
The young girl whose Christmas gift of a nutcracker comes to life in Hoffmann's original fantasy tale, journeying into a world of magic and wonder.
Clara Peggotty
David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
The warm and devoted nurse who is David's earliest source of unconditional love and protection in Dickens's autobiographical novel.
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