... revealed through their actions rather than in the sphere of the innermost workings of their minds and hearts. The reader was expected to divine the hero's inner life from his actions, for it was not so much personal as universal traits that were stressed in the character's psychology. The characters ... investigated until the nineteenth century. In early realism empiricism in the portrayal of reality went hand in hand with a pronounced tendency to idealize the hero. This at first sight rather strange contradiction arose from the concept of freedom upheld by realism, which was based on En...

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... structure, a scaffold up which to claw his way in order to reach greater positions of power. This shows that he does not share Othello and Cassio's romanticised view of the epic hero and the glorious conquest, instead favouring a more practical approach, but the fact that he favours traditional views of progression rather than Othello's practical promotion of Cassio as the most appropriate ... ...

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