Imagine a person that embodied everything essential about your country. Or your generation. Your profession. Your religion. Your social class. Anything can be personified. Fiction writers do it all the time.
“...when we get among masterpieces, we find that (the protagonist) tends to become no more than a function of his environment, a convenient symbol for representing and explaining that environment.” - HL Mencken
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Beams & Struts - Arts & Entertainment
