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An anti-hero is a hero who lacks the qualities that are normally found in heroic individuals. | An anti-hero is a hero who lacks the qualities that are normally found in heroic individuals. | ||
Anti-heroes normally share characteristics such as being "incompetent, unlucky, tactless, clumsy, cock-handed, stupid, buffoonish (Literary Terms & Literary Theory 42-43)." Even though the anti-hero has one or more of these characteristics, the reader is still drawn into feeling sympathetic for the anti-hero. | Anti-heroes normally share characteristics such as being "incompetent, unlucky, tactless, clumsy, cock-handed, stupid, buffoonish (Literary Terms & Literary Theory 42-43)." Even though the anti-hero normally has one or more of these characteristics, the reader is still drawn into feeling sympathetic for the anti-hero. | ||
In the early days of literature, the anti-hero was rarely seen, yet now the anti-hero is seen more and more frequently. Some of the earliest examples include "the endearing figure of the eponymous knight of ''Don Quixote'' (1605, 1615) (Literary Terms & Literary Theory 42-43)" and in "Hylas, in d'Urfe's very successful Astrée (1627) who is a contrast to the conventional hero Céladan (Literary Terms & Literary Theory 42-43)." | In the early days of literature, the anti-hero was rarely seen, yet now the anti-hero is seen more and more frequently. Some of the earliest examples include "the endearing figure of the eponymous knight of ''Don Quixote'' (1605, 1615) (Literary Terms & Literary Theory 42-43)" and in "Hylas, in d'Urfe's very successful Astrée (1627) who is a contrast to the conventional hero Céladan (Literary Terms & Literary Theory 42-43)." | ||