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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (68552)	11/27/2002 10:31:31 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Actually, most fiction depends on our caring about the protagonist, a good person beset by obstacles, finding ways to overcome them. I love Elizabeth Bennett: is she evil? Is David Copperfield? Macawber is flawed, but good hearted. Tom Jones is good hearted but undisciplined; Blifil is utterly repellent. Lord Jim is a good man tormented by a moral failure, who redeems his honor. Or take films: we root for Dorothy and her friends, not the Wicked Witch. We adore Charlie and Rosie on the African Queen. We thrill to Sam Spade's integrity when he turns in the woman he loves in the Maltese Falcon. We are relieved when Louis decides to help Rick at the end of Casablanca, and they go off to Brazzaville to join the Free French forces. No, the rule is that goodness is more interesting to us. Even when the central character is bad, he is usually an anti- hero, with redeeming qualities that make us care about his fate.......