## Metadata - Author: [[Edward Mendelson]] - Full Title: Moral Agents - Category: #books ## Highlights - In the American novel, on the whole, the goal of the plot is the liberation of the hero (Natty Bumppo, Captain Ahab, Jake Barnes, Janie Crawford) from other people’s values and demands, an escape from all relations of the kind in which individual persons find some accommodation with each other. In the British novel, the goal, whether or not any character achieves it, is more often a liberation from loneliness into marriage and family, a triumph that the hero (Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Dorothea Brooke, Leopold Bloom) can achieve only with the help of others