The ideal image of the epic hero continues to live in valuable memory of a novelistic genre. ... The reader of the novel intuitively waits from the uncompleted and consequently, the imperfect novelistic hero, the acts, which on forces only to the person who has been given birth by the epic condition of the world. That is why the new aesthetic reality, which is giving birth in epic dialogue to the novelistic hero, - is not mutual relation and not symbiosis, but epiko-novelistic quality, endowing with epic weightiness the historically passing novelistic event and problematizing epic inte...

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Many of history's epics revolve around the classic struggle and journey of one man's destiny. ... Without the archetype a hero is simply a man struggling as means to an end. ... When regarding the archetype of hero in an epic tale, key elements arise from the subconscious to the conscious regarding the behavior and storyline of the hero. ... For example most heroes' face an event that causes them to leave their family on an uncanny adventure, where the hero usually finds help along the way from the supernatural. ... The pretense that a hero typically follows a profile doesn'...

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The works must be dramatized and evoke feelings of pity and fear from the audience, for the main character or tragic hero as he or she moves toward a destructive end, eventually leading the audience to "explode" at the ultimate downfall of the hero. ... He goes through a series of unfortunate events that ultimately prove that he is, in fact, the tragic hero in the play. ... Although he made many attempts to change it, it went well beyond his reach, arousing pity and fear from the audience as they await his epic downfall as the tragic hero. ... Marjorie Barstow, however, believes th...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate