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Episode 156: The “Best of” Series – Why Read Fairy Tales, Ep. 70

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The Every Man

In a myth your your your mythical heroes are often demigods they are somebody who stands above humanity in some way right. And so I think that's about the every man as much like if you read English literature if you go back and Boswell and Samuel Johnson there's a lot of talk about the everyman. But we don't hear that term a lot I don't know if we've replaced it with something else we like protagonist isn't that just such a like us? So these are ordinary people who are working through overcoming obstacles and being transformed in a story in a fairy land which is an other world to see.

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