In the first sentence of the first chapter of Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man the appearance of a fictional protagonist is compared to Cápac's appearance out of Lake Titicaca.

Ishmael is the narrator ( and arguably the protagonist ) of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by U. S. author Herman Melville.

In Herman Melville's Pierre, the image of Enceladus appears multiple times ; the protagonist identifies with Enceladus in a dream.

The protagonist, Herman, would have the same scenes play out in his head with characters playing his Anxiety, Sensitivity, Intellect, and Lust.

* Ishmael ( Moby-Dick ), the protagonist in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

There is always the protagonist, usually isolated either voluntarily or involuntarily.

His 2004 novel Aloft received mixed notices from the critics and featured Lee's first protagonist who is not Asian American, but a disengaged and isolated Italian-American suburbanite forced to deal with his world.

In the archetypical ( and eponymous ) robinsonade, the protagonist is suddenly isolated from the comforts of civilization, usually shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded and uninhabited island.

As night falls, the inhabitants of Borgo make their way to the village square where Fellini presents his comic characters: the blind accordion player ( Domenica Pertica ) relentlessly tormented by schoolboys ; Volpina ( Josiane Tanzilli ), the stringy blond nymphomaniac ; the stout and buxom tobacconist ( Maria Antonietta Beluzzi ); Titta ( Bruno Zanin ), the rosy-cheeked adolescent protagonist based on Fellini's childhood friend ; and Aurelio ( Armando Brancia ), Titta ’ s father, a construction foreman of working-class background.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

The Heldentenor is the German equivalent of the tenore drammatico, however with a more baritonal quality: the typical Wagnerian protagonist.

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend ; a highly successful scholar, but also one dissatisfied with his life, who therefore makes a deal with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

In a sense, the protagonist of the film is not the Tracy character but a humble German worker played by Hume Cronyn, who changes from Nazi sympathizer to active opponent of the regime as he aids Tracy.

The Middle Dutch Roman van Walewein by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, and the Middle High German romance Diu Crône by Heinrich von dem Türlin are both dedicated primarily to Gawain, and in Wirnt von Grafenberg ’ s Middle High German Wigalois he is the father of the protagonist.

During the period of national renaissance in the wake of the Napoleonic wars, he was seen as an early protagonist of German resistance to foreign rule and a symbol of national unity.

In 1970 Fritsch was one of the founders of the Feedback Studio of Cologne ( together with Rolf Gehlhaar and David Johnson ), and has been since 1975 active as the chief protagonist of the " Feedback Studio Verlag ," the first German composers ' publishing house: He is a producer of Compact Discs, editor of the " Feedback Studio Papers " ( one of the journals dedicated to electronic music ), a publisher of scores of contemporary music, and a concert manager.

The web site deals with arguments the author has had with his German girlfriend, Margret ; the novel is fiction, though it revolves around arguments the English protagonist has had with his German girlfriend.

Szpilman is widely known as the protagonist of the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which is based on his memoir of the same name recounting his survival of the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.

The novel's protagonist, Tod Hackett ( whose first name likely derives from the German word for death and whose last name refers to a common epithet for Hollywood screenwriters and artists, who were pejoratively called " hacks "), is a set painter who aspires to artistic greatness.

* Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim, protagonist in the Baroque German novel Simplicius Simplicissimus.

Von Lettow-Vorbeck is the protagonist of The Ghosts of Africa, a 1980 historical novel by Anglo-Canadian novelist William Stevenson about the East African Campaign which highlighted the long-distance resupply mission of the giant German rigid airship L. 59.

Sebastian Faust, or simply Faust, is a fictional character, a comic book superhero from DC Comics, loosely based on the protagonist of the German legend who sold his soul to the Devil.

* John Sinclair ( German fiction ), fictional protagonist of a popular German penny dreadful

On 26 March 2007, the German public television channel ZDF began broadcasting 15-minute episodes of Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot with Oliver Jahn as protagonist and Nora Tschirner as Analoge Halluzinelle.

* The adventure novel Biggles Defies the Swastika by Captain W. E. Johns portrays the protagonist Squadron Leader Bigglesworth's ( Biggles ) adventures while trying to escape from Norway after getting stuck in the country during the German invasion.

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship represents one of the important moments in the eighteenth-century German reception of the dramas of William Shakespeare: the protagonist is introduced to these by the character Jarno, and extensive discussion of Shakespeare's work occurs within the novel's dialogues.

* Ace Hart ( voiced by Ron White )-A German Shepherd who is the main protagonist of the series.

One of the first things protagonist Alex's friend Denis does is get tapes of old East German shows: " about 30 Aktuelle Kamera, 11 Der schwarze Kanal, six of Ein Kessel Buntes ( shown in subtitles as " that variety show you mentioned "), and three or four of Everyday Life in the West.

Stiffelio had provoked the censorship board because of “ the immoral and rough ” storylines of a Protestant minister deceived by his wife and also because making the characters German did not please an Italian audience, although, as Budden notes, the opera " enjoyed a limited circulation ( in Italy ), but with the title changed to Guglielmo Wellingrode, the main protagonist now a German minister of state ".

Gersonides is an important character in the novel The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears, where he is depicted as the mentor of the protagonist Olivier de Noyen, a non-Jewish poet and intellectual.

Like The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf tells the story of a soft, domesticated protagonist, in this novel's case an intellectual man named Humphrey van Weyden, forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality.

The novel takes place in ' Bouville ', a town similar to Le Havre, and it concerns a dejected historian, who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations encroach on his ability to define himself, on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, evoking in the protagonist a sense of nausea.

The Dj Chawala of the King de Rocha in the video, like part protagonist of this culture, is part of the Regional Hall Artists 2007 Bad Hall Eye, thanks to the intellectual support and of investigation titled the Polarization of the Champeta of the artist Rafael Escallón Miranda on this culture and its manifestations, who as much in this as in previous occasions has developed manifest champetudos plastics, related to the communication, the policy and the relation of this culture with the characteristic of weapon-like the transgressor or contestatario, it's important work but alludes to the tips and PIKÓ TOTEM is titled becoming in year 2005 leaves from the collection Permanent of the Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena and where, in 2006, she was awarded a spot in the Hall Art and Sport of the American Games Center and the Caribbean Cartagena of Indies.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll featured a widely noted female protagonist confronting eccentric characters and intellectual puzzles in surreal settings.

Most of the plot takes place on board an Italian ship, where the protagonist travels in company with his nemesis-a satanic yet believable German intellectual spymaster, accompanied by a Romanian hired killer-and with a rich cast of other characters, such as a Turkish secret agent, a Spanish courtesan and her pimp, and a French couple of which the husband is left-leaning and his wife is a staunch reactionary.

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.

Corvus, the protagonist of the first game, is forced to flee his hometown of Silverspring after the infected attack him, but not before he is infected himself.

Victor Meldrew ( Richard Wilson ) – Victor is the main protagonist of the sitcom and finds himself constantly battling against all that life throws at him as he becomes entangled, like the pawn he is, in machiavellian plots.

Dick himself is a major character, though fictitious protagonist Nicholas Brady serves as a vehicle for Dick's alleged gnostic theophany on February 11, 1974.

Fittingly enough Sabata is performed by Lee van Cleef himself, while John Garko plays the very similar Sartana protagonist.

The officer mocks the idea of foreboding dreams and tells the protagonist that he himself had a dream about a house with a courtyard and fountain in Baghdad where treasure is buried under the fountain.

It is never made clear if the book protagonist had ever used the name and forgotten his old alias ( or former life ), or if the film protagonist is using an assumed name to distance himself from his former illegal activities.

* In one episode of the science fiction novel Perelandra by C. S. Lewis, the protagonist ( a philologist from Cambridge transported to the planet Venus ) finds himself " shouting a line out of ' The Battle of Maldon '" as he fights the Un-Man, a demon-possessed scientist.

In Hilton's final novel, " Time and Time Again " ( 1953 ), protagonist Charles Anderson bears clear biographical similarities to Hilton himself.

" He suggests that because Allen's films blur the protagonist with " past and future protagonists as well as with the director himself ", it " makes a difference as to whether we are most responsive to the director's or the character's framing of events ".

The question is which side the protagonist has put himself on, and this may not be immediately clear to the audience.

Cal, the protagonist, compares himself to the seer, and has even played him in a production of Antigone.

Hudson's protagonist Abel, references Ahasuerus, as an archetype of someone, like himself, who prays for redemption and peace ; while condemned to walk the earth.

* In Patrick Skene Catling's " John Midas in the Dreamtime " the protagonist visits the site of sacred cave paintings in the middle of the Australian outback, slipping back thousands of years, ultimately finding himself among a prehistoric aboriginal tribe.

The film has also been compared to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol in that the protagonist is a greedy man who cares little about anyone except himself and then has his life outlook completely changed after a series of real-life " what if?

On page 449, the protagonist finds himself in Princeton at dusk.

The plot follows the protagonist, Duncan Makenzie, on a trip to Earth from his home on Titan, ostensibly for a diplomatic visit to the U. S. for its 500th birthday, but really in order to have a clone of himself produced.

The protagonist is a Technician named Andrew Harlan, who finds himself involved in an ontological paradox orchestrated by his superiors.

* At the conclusion of the novel " Auto da Fe " by Nobel-Prize winner Elias Canetti, the bibliophile protagonist immolates himself on a pile of his own library.

However, a third-person narrator does not need to be an omnipresent guide, but instead may merely be the protagonist referring to himself in the third person ( also known as third person limited narrator ).

The agon in The Knights results in the conventional victory for the protagonist but the anticlimax involves a highly comic variation-the only unwelcome visitor in this play is Cleon, who will not accept defeat and who thus inflicts upon himself a series of defeats that is conventionally reserved for a series of secondary characters.

* In the Japanese manga Homunculus, Susumu Nakoshi, the protagonist, has trepanation performed on himself for money.

The lyrics tell of a male protagonist ( usually identified as King Diamond himself by fans ) who lost the love of his life, who was a witch who was burnt at the stake by a Catholic priest.

Alan Moore in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen enlists The Pilgrim's Progress protagonist, Christian, as a member of the earliest version of this group, Prospero's Men, having become wayward on his journey during his visit in Vanity Fair, stepping down an alleyway and found himself in London in the 1670s, and unable to return to his homeland.