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 ).

Ibsen started thinking about the play around May 1878, although he did not begin its first draft until a year later, having reflected on the themes and characters in the intervening period ( he visualised its protagonist, Nora, for instance, as having approached him one day wearing " a blue woolen dress ").

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.

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.

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.

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.

" Early detective stories tended to follow an investigating protagonist from the first scene to the last, making the unraveling a practical rather than emotional matter.

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.

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

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.

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.

Sartre portrayed his own pre-war situation in the character Mathieu, chief protagonist in The Age of Reason, which was completed during Sartre's first year as a soldier in the Second World War.

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 1003 Pisa was the protagonist of the first communal war in Italy, against Lucca of course.

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.

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.

The concept was mentioned in a science fiction story by Julian Huxley, " The Tissue-Culture King ", first published in 1927, in which the protagonist discovers that " caps of metal foil " can be used to block the effects of telepathy.

The story's protagonist, Hamilton Felix ( surname first ) is the archetypal superman ; he possesses a superhuman physique, an intellect to match it, and can expect to live centuries without any form of medical assistance.

The protagonist was Gord the Rogue, and this first novel told of his rise from the Slum Quarters of the city of Greyhawk to become a world traveler and thief extraordinaire.

In the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, the protagonist William Thatcher ( played by Heath Ledger ) poses as a noble and competes in his first jousting tournament at Rouen.

The first book, Tarnsman of Gor, opens with scenes reminiscent of scenes in the first book of the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs ; both feature the protagonist narrating his adventures after being transported to another world.

The first track was entitled Ulrike and featured lyrics which directly involved Ulrike Meinhof as the protagonist and the final track was purely instrumental ( but unrelated to the first track ) and was entitled " Meinhof ".

* Sergeant Cortez, protagonist of the TimeSplitters video game series

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.

Other key members of the development team included Bill Trost, who created the history, lore and major characters of Norrath ( including Everquest protagonist Firiona Vie ), Geoffrey " GZ " Zatkin who implemented the spell system, and artist Milo D. Cooper, who did the original character modeling in the game.

* In the game series Splinter Cell there are numerous references to the Four Freedoms, with the commanding officer of protagonist Sam Fisher, stating at one point, " this is fifth freedom territory ", indicating that the situation ( in the game plot ) has gotten so grave that one or more of the Four Freedoms are threatened.

* 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.

" great god ") on the Japanese game cover, makes a play on words between the word for wolf ( 狼 ) and the word Kami, as 大神 and 狼 are pronounced the same way ; the pivotal protagonist is a statue of a wolf possessed by Amaterasu.

* In the 1980s computer game Accolade's Comics the protagonist Steve Keene is offered tickets to the Latverian Ballet.

* Nemo, the protagonist of the video game Ace Combat 3 ( 1999 )

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 nemesis of the protagonist in the Super NES game Demon's Crest

The game acts as a spiritual successor to the Space Quest series, including the use of a janitor as its protagonist.

The protagonist in each game is usually not the same incarnation of Link, but a few exceptions do exist.

It uses the same 3D game engine as the previous game, and added a time-based concept, in which Link, the protagonist, relives the events of three days as many times as needed to complete the game's objectives.

It beat the opening record for a film featuring a female protagonist ($ 40. 1 million for Charlie's Angels ), and is the second most successful video game adaptation to date ( after Prince of Persia ), grossing $ 274, 703, 340 worldwide.

* Venus, the female protagonist in the PSP video game Metal Gear Acid 2

The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were created by British writers Steve Jackson ( not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name ) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, and provide an original twist on traditional fiction in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, being required to make choices that will affect the outcome.

In the PS1 game Final Fantasy IX, the lead protagonist, Zidane, starts off travelling with a group of thieves called Tantalus.

* Leo Bloom is named for the protagonist of James Joyce's classic novel Ulysses, Leopold Bloom.

Bialystock at one point calls Leo " Prince Myshkin ", the titular protagonist in Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot.

Leo Bloom King is the protagonist and narrator of Pat Conroy's 2009 novel South of Broad.

* Leo ( Kimba ): The main protagonist of the story who, in the original manga, is followed from birth to death.

Leo Frankowski made glories a key plot element in his Conrad Stargard saga, where the protagonist and title character is sent back in time to the 13th century where he has to establish himself and cope with various crises including planning for the eventual Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe in 1241.

: The main protagonist of the game, Leo is a withdrawn youth who has difficulties getting along with others.

His novel In Reih ' und Glied, translated into Russian as Один в поле не воин v pole ne voin, " One man in the field is not a warrior " or " One man alone can't win a war " ( 1867 – 1868 ), with its revolutionary protagonist Leo ( based on Ferdinand Lassalle ), was extraordinarily popular in Russia, and virtually all his novels were subsequently translated there at least once, collected editions being brought out in 1895 ( 8 vols.