Fw: TRTR Almost heroically, (Or actually boringly) I post more on The Hero post

[Mark Kohut]

>  It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji"[11] that the hero or 
>more
> generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the
> person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching; 
thus
> the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much
> similarity there is between the two. The most compelling[citation needed] 
>reason
> for the hero-as-self interpretation of stories and myths is the human 
inability
> to view the world from any perspective but a personal one. The almost 
universal
> notion of the hero or protagonist and its resulting hero identification allows
> us to experience stories in the only[citation needed] way we know how: as
> ourselves.

One of the classic humanist rationales for the experience of a good novel, of 
reading
it is that it ENLARGES our understanding, our mental ability to empathize
outside ourselves...........right, Alice?

Discuss. Use the above and The Recognitions in your answer.    
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