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Originally Posted by HarryT
The standard literary definition of an "epic" is a long work, with a hero as its protagonist, which narrates a series of achievements or events in an "elevated" style, ie not using normal everyday language.
The archetypal epic would be something like Homer's "Odyssey".
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That sounds pretty good to me. But I'd add that the hero's struggle goes beyond just his aims, but tends to encompass the fate of the world, or at least his country.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
GoT has several hero-type protagonists, as it is a parallel storylines narrative.
The "hero" of the overall story is up in the air as Martin has been steadily weeding out the protagonists. It may very well be that by the time he is done all the heroes are dead and the monsters win. 
Odds are the Daenerys, the mother of Dragons will be the last survivor but in this particular story it is dangerous to get too attached to any single character. |
Regarding Game of Thrones I must first say that I have never been interested in reading the book. I did watch the first few episodes of the television series though. I gave it up as it made The Lord of the Rings look like child's play in terms of difficulty in trying to follow all the characters and what was going on. As far as the end I figure it will be the "ice people" that will come out on top. Those ice people are cool.
