These Characters Burn Brilliantly– Even if only Briefly
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Not all Power of Idealism stories are the same. There are three kinds — and each one breaks your heart in a different way.
The Power of Idealism Character Type believes life should be lived as a grand passion or heroic destiny. Intensity of feeling — good or bad — is what makes life worth living. Complacency is their enemy. Mediocrity is their nightmare.
But that core drive shows up in three very distinct story forms:
Coming of Age Stories — Think the title characters in Billy Elliot and Juno. Jess in Bend It Like Beckham. These are young rebels who don’t quite fit — outsiders, iconoclasts, passionate misfits wrestling with a world that prizes conformity over individuality. Their story is about losing innocence while gaining something harder and truer: a complex understanding of who they are and what it costs to become it.
Epic Hero Stories — Think William Wallace in Braveheart. King Leonidas in 300. Colonel Robert Shaw in Glory. These characters enter a battle they cannot win — and they know it. They fight anyway, for honor, for glory, for the immortality of story, song, and legend. They lose their lives. But they live on forever.
Separated Lovers Stories — Think Rick Blaine in Casablanca. Karen Blixen in Out of Africa. Doctor Zhivago. Love for these characters becomes something stronger than circumstance, stronger than time — stronger, even, than death. The separation doesn’t diminish the passion. It defines it.
Three stories. One Character Type. One unifying truth:
The Power of Idealism would rather burn brilliantly and briefly than settle for a long, comfortable, forgettable life.
Which of these three story forms moves you most?
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