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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-02-08 03:39 pm

[ SECRET POST #2594 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2594 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-02-08 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think the main character is necessarily the most important character to the plot, just the most important character to the work as a whole. Like, you could say (to reverse this example) that Long John Silver is the main character of Treasure Island even though Jim Hawkins is the intended main character.
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[personal profile] dreemyweird 2014-02-08 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I agree with that. I just don't understand the need to have one and only one main character. I'd say that in the Sherlock Holmes stories, both Holmes and Watson are main characters; as regards Treasure Island, it is my opinion that the role of John Silver is exaggerated by the later interpretations.

I agree that in theory, a work of fiction can have a narrator so significant and a "main hero" so insignificant that the narrator would be the real main hero, but it's not the case with SH and Treasure Island (IMO).