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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.

Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).

The main protagonist, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel.

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.

In a Bildungsroman, the goal is maturity, and the protagonist achieves it gradually and with difficulty.

Typically, the values of society are gradually accepted by the protagonist and he is ultimately accepted into societythe protagonist's mistakes and disappointments are over.

In some works, the protagonist is able to reach out and help others after having achieved maturity.

Its protagonist is an exiled king, played by Chaplin, who arrives in New York with a plan to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

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.

" 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.

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, the protagonist Motoko Kusanagi is the fully prosthetic leader of an anti-terrorist force, who lives in a future Japan where the majority of adults are cyborgs and can connect wirelessly to the Internet for real-time communication and data research.

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.

Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

It is arguably more convincing if police, forensic experts or similar professionals are made the protagonist of a series of crime novels.

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.

Runyon's short stories are told in the first person by a protagonist who is never named, and whose role is unclear ; he knows many gangsters and does not appear to have a job, but he does not admit to any criminal involvement, and seems to be largely a bystander.

* Bruce Campbell as Ashley " Ash " Williams: Ash is the last survivor of the group and the main protagonist of the film.

The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist.

Ezekiel (;, Y ' ḥez ' qel, ), Arabic :< font size = 2 > حزقيال </ font > Hazqiyal, ' God will strengthen ' ( from, ḥazaq,, literally ' to fasten upon ,' figuratively ' strong ,' and, el,, literally ' God ', and so figuratively ' The Almighty ') is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.

* 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.

* The Kincaids, a 1999 novel by Matt Braun presents a detailed fictionalized account of Guthrie's founding, rapid growth, and fight to become the state capitol as seen through the eyes of the books protagonist.

Stickney's poem " Song " ( which describes the earth ebullient in late spring, and the cuckoo singing " not yet ") is plagiarized in the de Niro's 2006 film The Good Shepherd by a Yale professor of English in a failed attempt to seduce the protagonist, portrayed by Matt Damon.

* Matt ( short for Matteo ) is the protagonist in this story.

He appeared in The Adjustment Bureau, reporting a story for WNBC on the film's protagonist, David Norris ( Matt Damon ), and in two episodes of the NBC sitcom Veronica's Closet.

* In Anthony Horowitz's book Raven's Gate, the protagonist, Matt, is pursued through a forest by demonic canines, after being discovered eavesdropping on a witchcraft ritual.

In June 2011, Cassidy replaced actress Sienna Miller as the protagonist in the independent dark comedy film Freaky Deaky in which she will star alongside Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, and Craig Robinson.

He has now picked up the role of Matt Anderson in the science fiction TV show Primeval, taking the top billing and replacing both Nick Cutter ( Douglas Henshall ) and Danny Quinn ( Jason Flemyng ) as the series ' main protagonist.

* Matt Mattison – protagonist, a scientist

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

As the novel opens, its protagonist Ragle Gumm believes that he lives in the year 1959 in a quiet American suburb.

A nonfiction essay that is embedded in There Will Be Time and attributed to the book's fictional protagonist, but seems to reflect Anderson's own views, sharply criticizes the American Left of 1972 ( when it was written ) for two instances of a double standard: for neglecting to address human rights violations in the Soviet Union and for failing to notice Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

Sympathetic portrayals are few but notable, such as the comedic but tortured protagonist David Naughton in An American Werewolf in London, and a less anguished and more confident and charismatic Jack Nicholson in the 1994 film Wolf.

American novelist Thomas Berger created a modern version of the story in his 1994 novel Robert Crews, in which the protagonist is a middle-aged alcoholic who survives a plane crash at a rural lake, and eventually encounters his " Friday ," a young woman fleeing an abusive marriage.

The protagonist, Benjamin Martin, is a composite figure based on three real American Revolutionary War officers: Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan and Thomas Sumter.

The novel is based on his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, with an American protagonist named Robert Jordan who fights with Spanish soldiers for the Republicans.

Among James's masterpieces are Daisy Miller ( 1879 ); in which the eponymous protagonist, the young and innocent American Daisy Miller, finds her values in conflict with European sophistication ; and The Portrait of a Lady ( 1881 ), in which a young American woman finds that her upbringing has ill prepared her against two scheming American expatriates during her travels in Europe.

In many of his tales, characters seem to exemplify alternate futures and possibilities, as most markedly in " The Jolly Corner ", in which the protagonist and a ghost-doppelganger live alternate American and European lives ; and in others, like The Ambassadors, an older James seems fondly to regard his own younger self facing a crucial moment.

The " last Buchan " ( as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review ) was the 1941 novel Sick Heart River ( American title: Mountain Meadow ), in which a dying protagonist confronts the questions of the meaning of life in the Canadian wilderness.

The protagonist, a Native American studies professor at UCLA, is distracted by various memories of a previous life recalled constantly and involuntarily in the form of dreams whenever he falls asleep to the point where it begins to detract from his ability to function.

The protagonist is a British aristocrat who is captured by a Native American tribe.

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.

His other novels include Dispatches from the Cold ( 1998 ), and Over The Shoulder ( 2001 ), a mystery / noir, the first in a trilogy about his Korean American private-eye protagonist, Allen Choice.

Chang's experiments in crime fiction is related to this shift, since the stories revolve around solving a mystery or crime, and despite the fact that the protagonist is Korean American, the debt here is more to crime and noir writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.

* In the 1981 film by John Landis, An American Werewolf in London, the protagonist David Kessler ( played by David Naughton ) watches a News of the World television ad, while in Nurse Alex's apartment.

" Rip Van Winkle " is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist.

The movies were made into a series of sorts by splicing on the same opening and closing theme song and newly-designed voice-over narration that desperately attempted to link the protagonist of each film to the Hercules mythos, since few American viewers had a familiarity with Italian film heroes such as Maciste or Ursus.

* In the film Insomnia and its American remake, the protagonist suffers from insomnia partially brought on by the midnight sun while investigating a murder north of the Arctic Circle ( Norway in the original, and Alaska in the remake ).

The fashion and socializing aspects of being a fop are present in some interpretations of Batman's second identity Bruce Wayne and in the protagonist of the novel American Psycho, Patrick Bateman.

With her 1965 book Year of the Unicorn ( third in the High Hallack spinoff of her Witch World series ), she used a young woman as the protagonist, which was at the time uncommon for American works of fantasy.