🔬 Science 6h ago · Tim Brinkhof

4 literary masterpieces that make you despise the protagonist by the end

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4 literary masterpieces that make you despise the protagonist by the end
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Many of world literature’s most unlikable protagonists start unlikeable and end unlikeable. From the very beginning of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is clear that the titular Gray is a narcissist who’ll do anything to inflate his already monstrous ego. The same goes for Humbert Humbert from Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita, a pedophile with a silver tongue who conjures up excuses for his inexcusable actions.
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