Hero As Self
It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji" 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. One 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.
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Famous quotes containing the words hero as and/or hero:
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)