Sentence examples similar to class protagonist from inspiring English sources

No one, however, will deny that once again Leigh has illuminated the lives of his working class protagonists with his special kind of baleful but essentially sympathetic understanding.

Day after day, I am forced to actively seek out texts with working class protagonists only to find that they are either leading an uprising in some post-apocalyptic war zone (The Hunger Games), a Victorian factory worker living in a Whitechapel slum (Sue Reid's Mill Girl) or members of a neighbourhood gang who terrorise others around them (Maria Farrer's A Flash of Blue).

The longest piece, "A Love Child," is a sprawl at the start, telling of the school days and army training of James, its middle-class protagonist.

He was more than just Lady Mary's love interest and the heir to Downton Abbey; as the middle-class protagonist new to the aristocratic lifestyle, he was also an important proxy for the modern-day audience.

Sentimental comedy, a dramatic genre of the 18th century, denoting plays in which middle-class protagonists triumphantly overcome a series of moral trials.

These usually featured working-class protagonists; dumb, larcenous ne'er-do-wells; piggish, sweaty villains; violent, out-of-control, sex-crazed brutes; and women in distress.

It is a theme that runs through black popular culture, from hip-hop to the growing number of films with black middle-class protagonists.

Movies like "Backroads" and Mr. Burstall's "Petersen" (1974), combining loose-jointed, turbulent stories, working-class protagonists and an acute consciousness of the politics of class and race, felt like those earlier American independents.

When he came to write The Making of the English Working Class (first commissioned as "Working Class Politics 1790-1921"), he wrote as a patriot and a political radical wanting to express a passionate engagement with the dissenting cultural traditions of his country whose proto-working-class protagonists he venerated.

I was horrified to hear that two of the projects mentioned resembled my own: short stories with working-class protagonists, full of joy under a blue spring sky, with none of those clouds or that damn rain that had characterized my earlier attempts.

As in the author's other fiction about life among the working class, the protagonist is a classic underachiever who is also a figure of some nobility.