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| Babbitt |
the title character and protagonist of Sinclair Lewis's early twentieth-century novel, who is smug, conventional, and resolutely middle-class. [1/2 definitions] |
| Don Quixote |
the idealistic but impractical protagonist and title character of a seventeenth-century Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. |
| Huckleberry Finn |
the protagonist and title character of a late nineteenth-century novel by Mark Twain. |
| Jekyll and Hyde |
in the nineteenth-century novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, the protagonist, who changes from the benevolent Dr. Jekyll into the evil Mr. Hyde. [1/2 definitions] |
| King Lear |
the title character and protagonist of a tragedy by William Shakespeare. |
| Macbeth |
the title character and protagonist of a tragedy by William Shakespeare. |
| Odysseus |
the protagonist of The Odyssey, known for his cleverness and persuasive oratory; Ulysses. |
| Oedipus |
in an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles, the protagonist and title character, who unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother. |
| Orestes |
in the ancient Greek dramatic trilogy The Oresteia by Aeschylus, the protagonist, who avenges his father's death by killing his mother and her lover. |
| Tarzan |
the title character and protagonist of a series of twentieth-century jungle adventure stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. [1/2 definitions] |
| Tom Sawyer |
the boy protagonist of this novel. [1/2 definitions] |
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