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Book 7, Ep. 1 | Chosen One Narratives Revisited

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The Role of the Hero in Fiction

Marcel surely this is wrong. Listen, I have written some grossly reductive notes here but what you are reading is correct straight up quoted from anatomy of criticism arguably the second most boring book in the world. For Fry and hence for our cis-heteronormative patriarchal white supremacist culture the hero is the one who does the things in the literature. According to Fry the hero's power of action by which I think he just means abilities. This is doing something, that's... The hero’s power of action can be greater than the readers,. less than the readers, or roughly the same as the readers. Okay so we've got these these three different relationalities we can say

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