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Originally Posted by BlueMonkey
Reading your question I had to think of the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower
There are 13 books...I just read parts of one book for a literature essay so I don't really know if he dresses up as a bear ans sneaks through spain ;-) Sounds like funny plot though - and Hornblower at some points is kind of a anti-heroe; e.g. he is tonedeaf and at some point he confuses the french and britain national anthems or something like that :-) |
I am not sure I would ever have applied the concept of anti-hero to Hornblower. His word is his bond, he is merciful and his actions are almost always for the good of England and hardly ever for his own direct benefit. Shoot, he even gets married because he can't bear to tell a woman he doesn't really love her.
Heros can have flaws. What makes them an anti-hero is when their motives are seriously flawed or their actions step considerably outside the realm of what would be acceptable (at least inside the genre).
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Bill