The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

Each is still glorified as a national hero.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

As the hero, Mitchell Courtenay, explains before his conversion, the job of advertising is `` to convince people without letting them know that they're being convinced ''.

The private detective ( at least in the minds of listeners and readers all over the country ) is an individual hero fighting injustice.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

he is far from being a literary hero, yet is a creative artist.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

Marcellus, the hero, is beset from all sides by the problems of approaching manhood.

In this historic square are several statues, but the one that stands out over the others is that of Gen. Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

Their secondary hero is another pro, Willie Chisholm, who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock-strewn gully.

For the hero of this work by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton is a chap embittered by more than the lack of beer during a jam session.

Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where The Boys Are '', but I shall do nothing of the sort.

This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.

However, at the same time Montgomery selects as his hero De Gaulle, who is a militarist dominated by political ambitions.

With this derivation, the name would have a double meaning in the poem: When the hero is functioning rightly, his men bring grief to the enemy, but when wrongly, his men get the grief of war.

Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

The Jewish historian Artapanus of Alexandria ( 2nd century BCE ), portrayed Moses as a cultural hero, alien to the Pharaonic court.

He had a good instinct for what the " Arab street " demanded, following the decline in Egyptian leadership brought about by the trauma of Israel's six-day victory in the 1967 war, the death of the pan-Arabist hero, Gamal Abdul Nasser, in 1970, and the " traitorous " drive by his successor, Anwar Sadat, to sue for peace with the Jewish state.

Echoing the criticism of the House of Commons, on 14 May 1990 a leader in The Times described Irving as a " man for whom Hitler is something of a hero and almost everything of an innocent and for whom Auschwitz is a Jewish deception ".

In Philip Kerr's mystery novel, " If the Dead Rise Not " ( Penguin, 2009 ), set in 1934 early Nazi Germany, the hard-bitten detective hero, Bernhard Gunther falls in love with an American Jewish writer, Noreen Charalambides, ( who has an alcoholic but loving husband, Nick ).

Academics have interpreted Samson as a demi-god ( such as Hercules or Enkidu ) enfolded into Jewish religious lore, or as an archetypical folklore hero, among others.

In the film, she plays a young pro-Nazi who falls in love with the hero, Solomon Perel, not knowing that he is Jewish.

By contrast, in the U. S., Meili was largely regarded as a hero and whistleblower and received a particularly warm reception from the American Jewish community.

Sinding had made several remarks against the occupation, had fought for the rights of Jewish musicians during the early 1930s, was a close friend of the war hero Nordahl Grieg, and had suffered from severe senile dementia since the late 1930s.

Wingate became a hero of the Yishuv ( the Jewish Community ), and was loved by leaders such as Zvi Brenner and Moshe Dayan who had trained under him, and who claimed that Wingate had " taught us everything we know.

Sombart had many, indeed more than the typical proportion, of Jewish students, most of whom felt moderately positive about him after the war, although he clearly was no hero nor resistance fighter.

The hero of Jewish humor, Hershele Ostropoler, was from that town.

" He explains the " manly Jewish triumph " of characters like Jeff Goldblum's David Levinson in Independence Day and labels it as a " certain answer to America's yearnings for a new Jewish hero.

The fictional hero of the book, David Small, is the unconventional leader of the Conservative Jewish congregation in the fictional suburban Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing.

In 1934, he also began working on his film, Der ewige Traum / Der König vom Mont-Blanc, which not only starred a French hero in French mountains, but also had a Jewish producer, Gregor Rabinowitsch.

The origins of the narrator and the hero in the ( fictitious ) small town of Kaisersaschern on the ( Thuringian ) Saale, the name of Zeitblom's apothecary father ( Wohlgemut, ' welltempered '), and the description of Adrian Leverkühn as an old-fashioned German type, with a cast of features ' from a time before the Thirty Years War ', evoke the old post-medieval Germany: in their respective Catholic and Lutheran origins, and theological studies, they are heirs to the German Renaissance and the world of Dürer and Bach, but sympathetic to, and admired by, the ' keen-scented receptivity of Jewish circles.

" How Helena ’ s grandfather was finally recognised as a true hero " The Jewish Chronicle 8 February 2008, narrating how Eduardo Propper de Callejón was recognized as " Righteous Among Nations " recently.

Thus to France, the meaning of the verse is that Jesus fulfill the prophecies that the messiah will be abused and neglected, a prevalent current in Jewish messianic thinking that was just as active as the belief that the messiah would be an all conquering hero.

At first all went well for André since the post commandant Lieutenant Colonel John Jameson decided to send him to Arnold, never suspecting that a high-ranking hero of the Revolution could be a turncoat, but then Major Benjamin Tallmadge, head of Continental Army Intelligence, arrived and persuaded Jameson to bring the prisoner back.

The novel's hero vanishes into the Brazilian jungle and is held prisoner there.

The Spanish people rallied around the cause of Prince Ferdinand, who, even as a prisoner in France, was made into a national hero in what became a " war of independence " for Spain.

An uncredited Michael Caine plays the prisoner who leans forward and calls to Szabo for water ; in real life, that was the war hero F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas ( as recorded by Leo Marks in Chapter 76 of his book Between Silk and Cyanide ).

The prisoner Nemov, apparently the story's hero, is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58.

She frees their prisoner, the hero Mister Fantastic, who takes her to the Savage Land.