Who are the heroes of great literature? What makes them so? Is it possible even to answer such questions with a modicum of precision?
Literary analysis is not as clear-cut as, say, mathematics. In the latter, if you multiply four times four and get an answer other than sixteen, you are mistaken. There is no room for interpretation or preferences. But in …
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