In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory. |
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In the last inning, a home run can make you the hero, and a strikeout can make you the goat. |
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If the service is greater, the hero is made the target of outspoken praise, pulpit and press belaud him, applause greets him everywhere and processions form in his honor. |
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The hero of the turf accepted this bet, and on the day appointed, just a minute before starting, qualified his stallion to run for the purse. |
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He claims that he is a lineal descendent of a famous military hero. |
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The Rob Roy Way, named after Scottish folk hero and outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor, is a long distance footpath that runs for 92 miles. |
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An English monarchical hero is also glimpsed in the Play's handling of Caeser. |
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It has been commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship between the hero and his religious mentor, Quaker William Walters. |
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The tradition that developed with these titles focused on a hero and his life. |
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The titular hero realised how impossible it had become for him to integrate into the new conformist society. |
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The 2005 American Film Institute's '100 Years' series recognised the character of James Bond himself as the third greatest film hero. |
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In the novella, however, Cramer proves as deluded a romantic as any hero in one of Scott's novels. |
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The book was a retelling of the ancient Greek myth of the hero Jason and his quest to find the Golden Fleece. |
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Bellerophon attempts to become a mythic hero by perfectly imitating the actuarial program for mythic heroes. |
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No other fully historical hero has furnished such a perfect opportunity for the mythopoeic faculty. |
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Poseidon also had an affair with Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, his son and King of Eleusis, begetting the Attic hero Hippothoon. |
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When she was later beheaded by the hero Perseus, Chrysaor and Pegasus emerged from her neck. |
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He fought successfully during his reign to regain Scotland's place as an independent country and is today revered in Scotland as a national hero. |
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The epic poem transformed French King Henry IV into a national hero for his attempts at instituting tolerance with his Edict of Nantes. |
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Like the passive hero, she suffers in the thick of events but seldom moves them. |
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It has been suggested that some early myths surrounding the Welsh hero Culhwch involved the character being the son of a boar god. |
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He used no pyro or video backdrop, and the audience stood close enough to its hero that it could hold nonconversations with him. |
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Here the princely hero is a nondancing cavalier amid the many swan-maidens who resemble the one with whom he is falling in love. |
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At the beginning of the poem, he conflates three Bruces into the single person of the hero, probably by design. |
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He is now remembered as a national hero and numerous small groups have adopted his symbolism to advocate independence or nationalism for Wales. |
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In later stories he became a mythic hero, companion of Bran the Blessed and King Arthur. |
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Growing up, his football hero was fellow Welshman and Manchester United player Ryan Giggs. |
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Following his defeat of Louis in 1936, Schmeling had become a national hero in Germany. |
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Before the eyes of the nation, Joe Louis, an American hero if ever there was one, was going to get beaten up. |
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In 2003, the American Film Institute ranked him the second greatest film hero of all time. |
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The unlucky protagonist of this episode was Sampiero di Bastelica, who would later come to be considered a hero of the island. |
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Consequently, when Gustav Vasa or Gustav I broke the monopoly power of the Hanseatic League he was regarded as a hero by the Swedish people. |
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De With wrote some anonymous pamphlets painting Tromp as avaricious and himself as the real hero of the battle. |
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Others point to earlier myths from other cultures, showing the story of Heracles as a local adaptation of hero myths already well established. |
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Sending a hero to his presumed death is also a recurrent theme of this early heroic tradition, used in the cases of Perseus and Bellerophon. |
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It was a source of pride to be able to trace the descent of one's leaders from a mythological hero or a god. |
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The Trojans are routed by the sudden onslaught, and Patroclus begins his assault by killing the Trojan hero Sarpedon. |
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Said to border Cornwall, it is most notable as the home of the hero Tristan, whose father was king. |
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It was reputedly saved by local hero Peter de Heyno who shot the French commander. |
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Meanwhile, Marius was the hero of the hour, and his services would be needed in another emergency. |
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Consequently, when Gustav Vasa or Gustav I broke the monopoly power of the Hanseatic League he was regarded as a hero to the Swedish people. |
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Schlesinger made Jackson a hero for his successful attacks on the Second Bank of the United States. |
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Memories of his reign made him a hero of German legend as Dietrich von Bern. |
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If, for some reason, you're here and not feeling pizzalicious, then the manicotti and the meatball hero may be considered. |
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After the coup collapsed, Yeltsin was seen as a hero for his decisive actions, while Gorbachev's power was effectively ended. |
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I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide. |
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To Victorian bardolators, Shakespeare was so elevated a hero that he was virtually immobile. |
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And though he smiled, his eyes glowed proudly at the name of Louisiana's dashing hero. |
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Tintin, the comic strip hero with the button nose, poppy-seed eyes and blond flip hairdo, is now an institution. |
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Not every costumed crime-fighter is necessarily a hero, and not every one with superhuman powers is necessarily a superhero. |
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But when our hero, the beautiful, elemental McMurphy, was lobotomized after attacking the cuntly Nurse Ratched, CRY I DID. I sobbed. |
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A friendlike hero or protagonist emerges in the former condition, an enemylike villain or antagonist in the latter. |
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The American folk hero Woody Guthrie will be honored at the Kennedy Center, but rabble-rousing, not respectability, was his goal. |
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Myths and religions often ascribe natural forces to supernatural beings, as acts of god or hero shaking the earth, raising a storm or flood etc. |
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A younger hagiolater, Karl Heinz Ruppel, wrote of Karajan as an epic hero in much the same terms as Bernstein had spoken of Mahler. |
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In Jacob's Room, by Virginia Woolf, the hero and a friend of his sail around the islands. |
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The food stylists this day had spent inordinate amounts of time preparing the hero product for a close-up scene. |
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Togo. Japan's greatest previous naval hero, victor of Tsushima, humiliator of the Russians. |
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His exploits made him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards, to whom he was known as El Draque. |
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Drake was considered a hero in England and a pirate in Spain for his raids. |
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The plots of Shakespeare's tragedies often hinge on such fatal errors or flaws, which overturn order and destroy the hero and those he loves. |
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Broster wrote the Jacobite Trilogy of novels featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron. |
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These negotiations resulted in the Treaty of Campo Formio, and Bonaparte returned to Paris in December as a hero. |
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For English poet Lord Byron, Napoleon was the epitome of the Romantic hero, the persecuted, lonely, and flawed genius. |
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Nelson often found himself received as a hero and was the centre of celebrations and events held in his honour. |
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Officials are calling the woman a hero for keeping her head and finding the only way out amid the panic of the smoke and flames. |
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In the legends of Robin Hood, Nottingham Castle is the scene of the final showdown between the Sheriff and the hero outlaw. |
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Uzziah was the prophet's king, therefore his lord and master, and perhaps his hero too, in spite of his tragic end. |
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To her distorted fancy he was a man among men, a hero, all that was admirable and magnificent. |
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This battle was eventually settled when the hero Heracles decided to help the Olympians. |
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In these tales, Turpin was the hero, accompanied by his trusty colleagues Claude Duval, Tom King, and Jack Rann. |
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In painting Henry as an iconic hero, however, he also subtly conveyed the tyranny of his character. |
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On 11 February 1779 Keppel was acquitted of all charges and became a national hero. |
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Virgil told how the Trojan hero Aeneas became the ancestor of the Roman people. |
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Though commonly understood to be the antagonizing force in Paradise Lost, Satan may be best defined as a tragic or Hellenic hero. |
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Although his time there was marked by variable health from asthma attacks, he nevertheless became an intellectual hero of the Whigs. |
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Scoring the matchwinning goal in the county soccer derby made him the town's hero. |
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Later in his brief life, Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. |
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Byron's body was embalmed, but the Greeks wanted some part of their hero to stay with them. |
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Scott made the decision to switch Ellen Ripley from the standard male action hero to a heroine. |
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The 1966 World Cup had a rather unusual hero off the field, a dog called Pickles. |
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Finishing fourth, also using Renault power, was the Lotus 94T of future British hero, Nigel Mansell. |
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The local merchants and civilians had thought him invincible, and some considered him a hero. |
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Dyer was removed from duty but he became a celebrated hero in Britain among people with connections to the Raj. |
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Endymion, despite having a Whig as hero, is a last exposition of the author's economic policies and political beliefs. |
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He became a great hero to German conservatives, who erected many monuments to his memory and tried to emulate his policies. |
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Despite the Egyptian defeat, Nasser emerged as an enhanced hero in the Arab world. |
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The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. |
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The main protagonist Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel. |
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And thus, in carrying out her plan to kill him, Judith becomes a hero. |
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The adventures led to satirical encounters with the real world with the hero either becoming the pitiable victim or the rogue who exploited the vices of those he met. |
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Critics such as Charles Dibdin argued that Rosaline had been purposely included in the play to show how reckless the hero was and that this was the reason for his tragic end. |
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In the nineteenth century Ambiorix became a Belgian national hero because of his resistance against Julius Caesar, as written in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. |
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With his death Owain acquired a mythical status along with Cadwaladr, Cynan and Arthur as the hero awaiting the call to return and liberate his people. |
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Superman lives a double life as hero and as the reporter Clark Kent. |
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Still embittered by the perceived betrayal, Paine tried to ruin Washington's reputation by calling him a treacherous man unworthy of his fame as a military and political hero. |
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Tompkins is considered a hero in the deep ecology movement and works hand in hand with his wife Kris, the former CEO of the outdoor clothing and equipment company Patagonia. |
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This became celebrated and widely reported by correspondents, so that its inventor, Fisher, came to the attention of the public for the first time as a hero. |
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Known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad III Dracula, he immediately put to death the boyars who had conspired against his father and was characterized as both a hero and a villain. |
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In his description of the events in Milan in his Life of Constantine, Eusebius eliminated the role of Licinius, whom he portrayed as the evil foil to his hero Constantine. |
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Life is not to be conceived on the analogy of a melodrama in which the hero and heroine go through incredible misfortunes for which they are compensated by a happy ending. |
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The figure of the Byronic hero pervades much of his work, and Byron himself is considered to epitomise many of the characteristics of this literary figure. |
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Let's discuss how to play if the hero has KK, and there's an ace on board. |
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Reviewers and readers assumed that Percy Shelley was the author, since the book was published with his preface and dedicated to his political hero William Godwin. |
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The preparation of the hero food involves any number of specialized techniques food stylists have developed to deal with the demands of photographing food. |
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He became a hero to many of the youthful members of the New Left. |
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Rochester in Jane Eyre, who display the traits of a Byronic hero. |
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After the rise of the hero cult, gods and heroes constitute the sacral sphere and are invoked together in oaths and prayers which are addressed to them. |
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Italian revolutionary hero Giuseppe Garibaldi lived in exile at Tangier in late 1849 and the first half of 1850, following the fall of the revolutionary Roman Republic. |
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The other group were the followers of Lord Chatham, who, as the great political hero of the Seven Years' War, generally took a stance of opposition to party and faction. |
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By creating an account that portrays himself as a superb military hero, Caesar was able to clear all doubts in Rome about his abilities as a leader. |
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After his death the conservatives embraced him as a great patriotic hero. |
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One of MadWorld's minibosses is about to turn our hero into a flapjack. |
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The Germans' late attempt to blow the road bridge was possibly foiled by a local Dutch resistance hero, Jan van Hoof, who is said to have cut the wires to the bridge. |
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John Paul Jones became the first great American naval hero, capturing HMS Drake on April 24, 1778, the first victory for any American military vessel in British waters. |
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Arthurian literature differed from conventional version of the legend by treating Arthur as a villain and Mordred, the son of the king of the Picts, as a hero. |
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Slowly, the press began to eliminate its stereotypical racial references when covering Louis and instead treated him as an unqualified sports hero. |
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His escape made him a minor national hero for a time in Britain. |
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After Medea was abandoned by Jason and had become a murderer out of revenge, she fled to Athens and married king Aigeus there, and became the stepmother of the hero Theseus. |
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Odin has a particular association with Yule, and mankind's knowledge of both the runes and poetry is also attributed to him, giving Odin aspects of the culture hero. |
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Later that year, he claimed to have obtained further manuscripts and in 1761 he claimed to have found an epic on the subject of the hero Fingal, written by Ossian. |
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If this is not idolatry, then it is monarchical hero worship. |
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Hugh M Thomas argues that the Gesta is intended to be an entertaining story about an English hero, creating a fantasy of successful resistance to the Normans. |
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Others have identified Bendigeidfran with the Irish hero Bran mac Febal. |
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Charles Martel is especially celebrated as the hero of this battle. |
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The hero who speaks these words in Dryden's play is here denying the right of a prince to put him to death, on the grounds that he is not that prince's subject. |
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Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. |
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