An exemplar post-colonial novel is Wide Sargasso Sea ( 1966 ), by Jean Rhys, a predecessor story to Jane Eyre ( 1847 ), by Charlotte Brontë, a literary variety wherein a familiar story is re-told from the perspective of a subaltern protagonist, Antoinette Cosway, who, within the story and the plot, is a socially oppressed minor character who is renamed and variously exploited.

This is the name of the castle of its protagonist, count Henry de Kehlmark, but it conveys the name ' Escaut ', French for the river Scheldt, and ' Vigor ', Latin for Power.

She explains the origin of mankind within the story to the game's main protagonist, Desmond Miles, through his ancestor, Ezio Auditore.

In Wyndham Lewis's The Wild Body ( 1927 ) the protagonist, Ker-Orr, in the first story, ' A Soldier of Humour ', takes the train from Paris and stays in the town of Bayonne before passing through into Spain.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

Usually in the beginning of the story there is an emotional loss which makes the protagonist leave on his journey.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

The stories are formulaic, usually focused on the everyday struggles of fifth grader Nobita, the protagonist of the story.

) 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.

Hero or heroine is sometimes used to simply describe the protagonist of a story, or the love interest, a usage which can conflict with the superhuman expectations of heroism.

It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji " that the hero or more generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching ; thus the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much similarity there is between the two.

Justin Martyr, in the early 2nd century, mentions the " memoirs of the apostles ", which Christians called " gospels " and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament, which was written in narrative form where " in the biblical story God is the protagonist, Satan ( or evil people / powers ) are the antagonists, and God ’ s people are the agonists ".

The story of Kid Icarus revolves around protagonist Pit's quest for three sacred treasures, which he must equip to rescue the Grecian fantasy world Angel Land and its ruler, the goddess Palutena.

An agent of the ARM, Gil Hamilton, is the protagonist of Niven's sci-fi detective stories, a series-within-a-series gathered in the collection Flatlander ( Confusingly, " Flatlander " is also the name of an unrelated Known Space story.

Eisenstein's solution was to shun narrative structure by eliminating the individual protagonist and tell stories where the action is moved by the group and the story is told through a clash of one image against the next ( whether in composition, motion, or idea ) so that the audience is never lulled into believing that they are watching something that has not been worked over.

A player character or playable character ( PC ) is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game.

The expansions pick up right where the first game left off, use all the same weapons and powerups, monsters and gothic atmosphere / architecture and continue / finish the story of the first game and its protagonist.

Chrono Cross borrowed certain thematic elements, story points, characters, music, and objects introduced in Radical Dreamers — including the infiltration of Viper Manor, the Frozen Flame, the name Radical Dreamers for Kid's thievery, and the characters of Kid, Lynx, and Serge ( who became a non-speaking protagonist ).

" After the protagonist wins the fight, Deathshead narrowly escapes in a rocket plane and goes into hiding, not to be seen again for the rest of the story.

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

The story begins with the protagonist, Simon, as an ordinary teenager.

The evolution and maturation of the protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is central to the story.

Sleep was also used for time travel in Faddey Bulgarin's story " Pravdopodobnie Nebylitsi " in which the protagonist wakes up in the 29th century.

Yu Hua is one of the more notable writers, writing a weird counter-genre short story titled Blood and Plum Blossoms, in which the protagonist goes on a quest to avenge his murdered father.

The protagonists of most wuxia stories usually have beautiful maidens to accompany them on their adventures and the story typically concludes like a fairy tale, in which the protagonist and his lover are married and live happily ever after.

A typical wuxia story features a young male protagonist who experiences a tragedy such as losing his loved ones.

At the end of the story, the protagonist emerges as a powerful fighter whom few can equal.

Included from Camilla are Sandra's ( the titular character ) ability to turn into a cat, and the nature of her first encounter ( and the resulting sexual relationship ) with the series ' second main protagonist, Isabelle von Karatstein.

* Letters In Cardboard Boxes ( 2011 ) by Abby Slovin is written as a narrative alongside a series of letters exchanged between an eccentric grandmother and her granddaughter as the protagonist experiences loss.

Mulvey posits in her notes to the Criterion Collection DVD of Michael Powell's controversial film Peeping Tom that the cinema spectator ’ s own voyeurism is made shockingly obvious and even more shockingly, the spectator identifies with the perverted protagonist.

2001 science fiction TV series Dark Angel featured a powerful female protagonist, with gender roles between her and the main male character generally reversed.

After her downfall, her affectations and excessive imaginations become eventually subdued by the voice of reason in the form of Stuart, a paternal figure, under whose guidance the protagonist receives a sound education and correction of her misguided taste

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.

* 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.

* Hera was featured in the video game God of War 3, she was seen as an evil, ungrateful drunk, and was eventually killed by the series protagonist Kratos, by him snapping her neck / spine.

* In Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth, the faun gives the protagonist, Ofelia, a mandrake root to hide under her pregnant mother's bed to cure her illness.

Instead of a world government, the above-mentioned " Shield " resolves the problem of an American-dominated world dictatorship in a truly libertarian manner: The protagonist, who is hunted by various power groups for the secret of a personal impregnable force field which he brought from Mars, finally decides to simply reveal it to the entire world, so that every individual could thumb his or her nose at each and every Authority.

* In Stephen King's 1980 novel Firestarter, the protagonist chooses Rolling Stone as an unbiased independent media source, through which she can expose the government agency hunting her.

The protagonist of " Molly and Poo ," Molly is a tortured writer who dreams of a mysterious muse (" Ma Malai ") and murders her husband with a butcher knife.

The Video game Velvet Assassin by Replay Studios is inspired by Szabo's life as an allied spy during WWII, with the protagonist sharing her first name.

Buffy is the protagonist of the story, and the series depicts her life and adventures as she grows up.

A poet, who is a pen friend of the protagonist, helps her gain confidence which enables her to start walking again.

" 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.

The one character who remains a constant throughout is Alita, the protagonist and title character, a young cyborg with amnesia struggling to uncover her forgotten past through the only thing she remembers from it: by fighting.

The book's protagonist is Friday Baldwin, an artificial person both mentally and physically superior in many ways to an ordinary human, but she faces great prejudice and will most likely be killed if her " non-human " status is discovered.

Near the end of Resident Evil, the protagonist Alice walks outside of her quarantine into a ravaged city street jammed with traffic.