Examples
The most familiar example of an everyman character is Christian, the protagonist of The Pilgrim's Progress. Other figures often characterized as everymen include:
- Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead franchise
- Jim Halpert in the comedy series The Office
- Stan Marsh in South Park
- Ted Mosby in the comedy series How I Met Your Mother
- Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest
- Rhys Williams in Torchwood
- The narrator of the novel Fight Club and its film adaptation
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“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)