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No More Cyranos?

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Stray Cat
 
Reply Sat 10 Sep, 2005 11:40 pm
Cyrano de Bergerac is one of my all time favorite literary characters. He was a romantic idealist. I am too.

I don't think there are a lot of us left these days. I love the story of Cyrano.


Who are some of your favorite literary heros/heroines?
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 02:31 am
Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person before becoming a romantic character.

He was, at least, as bright as his eponym.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 09:01 am
This is harder to answer than I expected. I automatically go to my favorite books, but they seem to often have flawed protagonists.

Maybe someone from "A Suitable Boy"?
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AngeliqueEast
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 09:28 am
Jean Valjean From Les Misérables
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 09:53 am
Odysseus.
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Stray Cat
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 12:17 pm
Good answers, everybody.

One of my father's favorites was Don Quixote.

Francis wrote:

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Cyrano de Bergerac was a real person before becoming a romantic character.


Really, Francis? I never knew Cyrano was a real person. I'll have to check that out.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 01:35 pm
Check Savinien Cyrano the Bergerac...
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 03:32 pm
Perhaps the age of literate swashbucklers has passed?

The present heroes are all hairy realists.
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Stray Cat
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 03:44 pm
Hee! True, Noddy!
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Sun 11 Sep, 2005 05:25 pm
I'm old fashioned. I don't mind punching out the occasional villain, but every so often I'd like to flutter my eye lashes, brandish my fan and swoon when afflicted by brutal reality.

One of the reasons I'm partial to science fiction and fantasy is that in other realms heroes can still be larger than life and not need deodorant.
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Ray
 
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Reply Mon 12 Sep, 2005 10:20 pm
Literary... does that include graphic novels? Laughing

Anyways, some of my heroes or heroines are:

Richard Shelton (a.k.a. Dick, the protagonist) from "The Black Arrow" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Adam (inspirational hero), from "I am Adam"

Sherlock Holmes (despite his arrogance)
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kickycan
 
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Reply Mon 12 Sep, 2005 10:43 pm
Who says a good protaganist has to be without flaw?

T.S. Garp
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kickycan
 
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Reply Mon 12 Sep, 2005 10:45 pm
Oooh, now that I gave a John Irving character I have to add another one....Owen Meany.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 13 Sep, 2005 06:56 am
Henry Fleming, I believe the name is, from Red Badge of Courage.
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