Because you like Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited
CIA operative Carrie Mathison is on a self-assigned mission to follow a lead, whether it be the truth or just her delusions playing tricks. See them in Homeland.
This beautiful aesthete wins the hearts of both ladies and men. But Dorian Gray also happens to have his soul sealed in a painting. See them in Dorian Gray.
Kathy is a natural caretaker who strives to find hope in even the darkest of times. See them in Never Let Me Go.
White Witch's heart is as frozen as the land she rules. See them in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Gregor Samsa is an ordinary man in an abnormal predicament. See them in The Metamorphosis.
Romantic, tortured, and at times cruel, Heathcliff is an intense man. See them in Wuthering Heights.
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace will beat you in cards, drink you under the table, then fly circles around you in her fighter plane. See them in Battlestar Galactica.
Just because Dracula wants to suck your blood doesn't mean he's not a gentleman. See them in Dracula.
Maya Lambert is an obsessive intelligence officer with tunnel vision leading toward Osama bin Laden. See them in Zero Dark Thirty.
Anna Karenina doesn't want to be a respectable woman any more. She thinks respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. See them in Anna Karenina.
Good-natured, sensitive, and introspective, Mason is on a lifelong path to finding himself. See them in Boyhood.