صورة البطل الحديث في قصة لمحمد علي طه

Ibrahim Taha in his article "The image of the modern hero in a story by Muhammad 'Ali Taha" treats one type of heroism through Muhammad 'Ali Taha's short story "One night at Reiga's Train". Taha suggests a model of five components--motivation, will, ability, execution, and result--for defining the final status and position of the main character in any literary text. Applying this model, Taha discusses the psychic and the physical activities of Marwan, the main character of the story, on his way to his final target. Although his role in shaping and achieving his goal is extremely restrical, in comparison. with those of the text's chronotope and its other characters and data, Marwan's obvious and absolute success in his mission turns him into a hero. Yet, the absence of derious obstacles, which might have caused him to fail, reduces his heroism in classical literature, to a local, specific, personal, and to some extent, banal one.