The phrase “there is a hero to every story” has been heard numerous times, but can this be true if the hero dies in the story? It all depends on the definition of a hero. According to the tragic hero definitions of Abram’s A Glossary of Literary Terms, Aristotle’s theory of a tragic hero, and a combination of Merriam Webster dictionaries, a person can be classified as a hero even if he does …showed first 75 words of 2656 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2656 total…own and his enemy’s, at stake. He will reconcile himself, as he is and all he is, with these now unveiled verities of this world and the next, if that may be. In which Promethean struggle towards the light he is beaten- as who has not been?- with havoc wr! ought not in him only, but by him, even to his own despite. It is none the less a heroic struggle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**