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

[Richard Ryan]

It certainly reasonable to claim that is the personalized agency of the hero
that makes catharsis possible.  Does this agency imply the development of
the reader's or audience's powers of empathy across unfamiliar psychological
types?  No doubt.

It will be impossible for me, only a third of the way through TR, to draw
any final conclusions about the heroic or sympathetic qualities of its
various characters.  But I'll take a provisional chance and describe Wyatt
as a sympathetic (tragic?) hero.  Not sure I could say the same for Otto -
I'll have to see where we go with him....

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >  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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