Three Male Protagonists in Literature

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This paper compares the great literary works of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis," and Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych" in terms of the lives of the male protagonists. The author writes the sign of the times is anxiety, these men are made more self-aware by sophisticated ways and inventions, everything instant and high-tech, but eliminating the soul and life?s meaning away from everything intrinsically natural.

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"The main protagonists of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis," and Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" are useful and successful social individuals before they fall into disillusionment, depression, rebellion and despair, even criminality in the case of the tragic character of "Things Fall Apart." Two things they share and lead them to elect their own moral and spiritual disintegration are their being accomplished leaders of their social and family situations and their being male."

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