The protagonist, Glaucus, represents the Greeks who have been subordinated by Rome, and his nemesis Arbaces the still older culture of Egypt.

* Glaucus, The protagonist, a handsome Athenian nobleman and Ione's betrothed.

He played a number of other characters on screen, including Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Glaucus of Pompeii ; Goliath, the bane of the barbarians ( actually called " Emiliano " in the Italian version ); Tatar hero Hadji Murad ; Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome ( opposite Gordon Scott as his twin brother Remus ); Pheidippides, the famous war-time messenger of the Battle of Marathon ; pirate and self-proclaimed governor of Jamaica, Captain Henry Morgan ; and Karim, the fabled Thief of Baghdad.

The adventure novel exhibits these " protagonist on adventurous journey " characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an ( literally ) underground matriarchal society.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

* Christian, the protagonist in John Bunyan's novel The Pilgrim's Progress

The stories are the diaries of protagonist Claudine, which outline the education and growing up of the young girl, who is aged fifteen at the beginning of the first novel Claudine à l ' école.

Despite condemning the ' Mahometans ' as infidels, he viewed the protagonist of the novel, Hayy, as a model for his ideal Christian philosopher and monotheistic scientist '.

An example of silicon based life forms takes place in the Alan Dean Foster novel Sentenced to Prism in which the protagonist Evan Orgell is trapped on a planet whose entire ecosystem is mostly silicon-based.

Alonso Quijano, the protagonist of the novel, is a retired country gentleman nearing fifty years of age, living in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and housekeeper.

Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

* The protagonist of Stephen King's novel Duma Key exhibited symptoms of a condition similar to receptive aphasia after suffering brain damage in an industrial accident.

* Haki Stërmilli's novel If I Were a Boy ( 1936 ) is written in the form of diary entries which documents the life of the main protagonist.

Saga's grandson, Minamoto no Tōru, is thought to be an inspiration for the protagonist of the novel The Tale of Genji.

A prime example is Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ); based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, the best-selling of all the hardboiled authors, here the protagonist is a private eye, Mike Hammer.

* Douglass is the protagonist of the novel Riversmeet ( Richard Bradbury, Muswell Press, 2007 ), a fictionalized account of his 1845 speaking tour of the British Isles.

Coming Up for Air, his last novel before World War II is the most ' English ' of his novels ; alarums of war mingle with images of idyllic Thames-side Edwardian childhood of protagonist George Bowling.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.

) The literary technique applied in telling the story is Bildungsroman, which is a type of novel concerned with the moral and psychological growth of the protagonist.

* Katie Scarlett ( O ' Hara ) Hamilton Kennedy Butler: The protagonist of the novel, Scarlett's forthright Irish blood is always at variance with the French teachings of style from her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

In the Mouth of Madness took a more literal approach, as its protagonist actually hopped from the real world into a novel created by the madman he was hired to track down.

* In A. J. Cronin's novel, A Pocketful of Rye, the protagonist Carroll reads the poem as a young man, forgets it, and suffers from a recurring nightmare that finally leads to his conversion.

* Joshua is a main protagonist in Matthew Woodring Stover's novel Jericho Moon.

Typically but not always, the protagonist of a wuxia novel will become this leader and command the actions of wulin.

La Malinche is the main protagonist in such works as the novel Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest by Colin Falconer, and The Golden Princess by Alexander Baron.

Brandon Routh himself stated, in an HBO First Look interview that he was playing three characters ; Clark Kent, the reporter / farm boy ; Superman, the protagonist and savior of Metropolis ; and Kal-El, the Last Son of Krypton.

Mary Stewart produced an influential quintet of Arthurian novels, with Merlin as the protagonist in the first three: The Crystal Cave ( 1970 ), The Hollow Hills ( 1973 ) and The Last Enchantment ( 1979 ).

" In Tennessee Williams's 1958 play, Suddenly, Last Summer, the protagonist is threatened with a lobotomy to stop her from telling the truth about her cousin Sebastian.

Desire the Kingdom: A Story of the Last Plantagenets ( 2002 ), by Paula Simonds Zabka, features Anne as the protagonist in a story set towards the end of the Wars of the Roses.

* Harvey Shine, the protagonist of the 2008 motion picture Last Chance Harvey

The Last of the Mohicans ( 1992 ) features a British officer being burnt at the stake by a Huron tribe, though he is put out of his misery with a bullet fired by the protagonist before the flames could do further harm.

* Yorick Brown, the protagonist of the comic Y: The Last Man

In October 1939, American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald began writing The Last Tycoon, a fictionalized biography of Thalberg, naming the protagonist Monroe Stahr to represent Thalberg.

Santayana's one novel, The Last Puritan, is a bildungsroman — that is, a novel that centers on the personal growth of the protagonist.

* Nathan Algren, protagonist of the film The Last Samurai

* Curley is considered the inspiration for the protagonist Frank Skeffington in the novel and film The Last Hurrah by Edwin O ' Connor.

In the 1990s-era Superman: The Animated Series, Jor-El is the main protagonist of Part 1 of the series ' triple-length premiere episode, " The Last Son of Krypton ".

In addition, he is depicted in the 1999 live-action film Gohatto ( sometimes known as Taboo ), the 2003 Japanese film When the Last Sword Is Drawn, video game series Shinsengumi Gunrou-den ( as the protagonist ), video game series Fu-un Shinsengumi, video game series Bakumatsu Renka Shinsengumi, and video game Chaos Wars.

The Last Tycoons protagonist, Monroe Stahr, is a character full of associations to Irving Thalberg, the production chief at M-G-M in the period between the late 20's and 30's.

In Giles Foden's novel The Last King of Scotland it is mentioned that Nicholas Garrigan, the fictional protagonist, is a Raith Rovers fan.

Zack also appears in the Compilation titles Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and, most significantly, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, a prequel in which he is the protagonist.

The protagonist of The Last Ninja series is Armakuni, the sole survivor of a ninjutsu clan that was destroyed by an evil shogun named Kunitoki.

His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking ( 2004 ); William Pitt in the historical film Amazing Grace ( 2006 ); protagonist Stephen Ezard in the miniseries thriller The Last Enemy ( 2008 ); Paul Marshall in Atonement ( 2007 ); Bernard in Small Island ( 2009 ); Sherlock Holmes in the modern BBC adaptation series Sherlock ( 2010 ); and Peter Guillam in the spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( 2011 ).

Karl Vincent is the chief protagonist from the novel Last Rites: The Return of Sebastian Vasilis and is featured in the comic book Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter