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Everyman

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In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify easily and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances. [1]

77 relations: A Man for All Seasons, All My Children, Arthur Dent, Average Joe, Character (arts), Charlie Brown, Chuck Palahniuk, Commoner, Douglas Adams, Dustin Hoffman, Elckerlijc, England, Everyman (play), Evita (musical), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film), Fight Club, Fight Club (novel), Film Comment, Fourth wall, Franz Kafka, Freedom to roam, George Jetson, George Orwell, Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, Her (film), Hero, How I Met Your Mother, It's a Gift, James Joyce, James Thurber, Jim Halpert, Joe Martin (All My Children), John Bunyan, John Q. Public, Leopold Bloom, List of soap opera media outlets, List of The Lego Movie characters, Los Angeles Times, Man on the Bondi tram, Merriam-Webster, Morality play, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Peanuts, Person having ordinary skill in the art, Princeton University, Protagonist, Reasonable person, Rick Grimes, Robert Bolt, Robin Williams, ..., Salon (website), Sam Winchester, Slender Man, South Park, Stan Marsh, Supernatural (U.S. TV series), T.C. Mits, Ted Mosby, The Apartment, The Bank Dick, The Earth Day Special, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Jetsons, The Lego Movie, The man on the Clapham omnibus, The Narrator (Fight Club), The Office (U.S. TV series), The Paris Review, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Walking Dead (comic book), Ulysses (novel), W. C. Fields, Walter Mitty, Winston Smith, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Zé Povinho. Expand index (27 more) »

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More.

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All My Children

All My Children (often shortened to AMC) is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network (TOLN) from April 29 to September 2, 2013, via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.

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Arthur Dent

Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

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Average Joe

The terms average Joe, ordinary Joe, Joe Sixpack, Joe Lunchbucket, Joe Snuffy, '''Joe Schmo''' (for males) and ordinary Jane, average Jane, and plain Jane (for females), are used primarily in North America to refer to a completely average person, typically an average American.

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Character (arts)

A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).

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Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown is the central protagonist of the comic strip Peanuts, syndicated in daily and Sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction.

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Commoner

The common people, also known as the common man, commoners, or the masses, are the ordinary people in a community or nation who lack any significant social status, especially those who are members of neither royalty, nobility, the clergy, nor any member of the aristocracy.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and director, with a career in film, television, and theater since 1960.

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Elckerlijc

Elckerlijc (also known as Elckerlyc) is a morality play from the Low Countries which was written in Dutch somewhere around the year 1470.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Everyman (play)

The of Everyman (The Summoning of Everyman), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play.

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Evita (musical)

Evita is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics and book by Tim Rice.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates.

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Fight Club

Fight Club is a 1999 film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.

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Fight Club (novel)

Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.

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Film Comment

Film Comment is an arts and culture magazine now published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, of which it is the official publication.

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Fourth wall

The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Freedom to roam

The freedom to roam, or "everyman's right", is the general public's right to access certain public or privately owned land for recreation and exercise.

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George Jetson

George J. Jetson is a fictional character from the animated television series The Jetsons.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Greenwich Village townhouse explosion

The Greenwich Village townhouse explosion occurred on March 6, 1970, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Her (film)

Her is a 2013 American romantic science-fiction drama film written, directed, and produced by Spike Jonze.

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Hero

A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a real person or a main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength; the original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor.

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How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother (often abbreviated to HIMYM) is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014.

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It's a Gift

It's a Gift is a 1934 comedy film starring W. C. Fields.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit.

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Jim Halpert

James “Jim” Duncan Halpert (born October 1, 1978) is a fictional character in the U.S. version of the television sitcom The Office, portrayed by John Krasinski.

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Joe Martin (All My Children)

Joe Martin is a fictional character on the ABC Daytime and The Online Network soap opera All My Children.

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan (baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

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John Q. Public

John Q. Public (and several similar names; see the Variations section below) is a generic name in the United States, to denote a hypothetical member of society deemed a "common man." He is presumed to represent the randomly selected "man on the street." The equivalent term used in the United Kingdom is Joe Public.

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Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's Ulysses.

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List of soap opera media outlets

There are multiple media outlets which focus primarily on television soap operas and telenovelas.

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List of The Lego Movie characters

This is a list of characters from ''The Lego Movie'' franchise produced by Warner Animation Group and The Lego Group, which consists of the animated films, 4D film and TV series, The Lego Movie (2014), The Lego Movie: 4D - A New Adventure (2016), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), Unikitty! (2017–present) and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Man on the Bondi tram

The man on the Bondi tram is a fictional legal character used in civil law in New South Wales, Australia, representing an ordinary person.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam–Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books which is especially known for its dictionaries.

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Morality play

The morality play is a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.

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Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.

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Person having ordinary skill in the art

A person having ordinary skill in the art (abbreviated PHOSITA), a person of (ordinary) skill in the art (POSITA or PSITA), a person skilled in the art, a skilled addressee or simply a skilled person is a legal fiction found in many patent laws throughout the world.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Reasonable person

In law, a reasonable person, reasonable man, or the man on the Clapham omnibus is a hypothetical person of legal fiction crafted by the courts and communicated through case law and jury instructions.

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Rick Grimes

Rick Grimes is a fictional character and the protagonist in the comic book series The Walking Dead and the television series of the same name, portrayed by Andrew Lincoln.

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Robert Bolt

Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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Sam Winchester

Samuel "Sam" Winchester is a fictional character and one of the two protagonists of the American drama television series Supernatural along with his older brother Dean.

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Slender Man

The Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009.

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South Park

South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network.

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Stan Marsh

Stanley "Stan" Marsh is a main character of the animated television series South Park.

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Supernatural (U.S. TV series)

Supernatural is an American dark fantasy television series created by Eric Kripke.

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T.C. Mits

T.C. Mits (acronym for "the celebrated man in the street"), is a term coined by Lillian Rosanoff Lieber to refer to an everyman.

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Ted Mosby

Theodore Evelyn "Ted" Mosby is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the U.S. television sitcom How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Josh Radnor.

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The Apartment

The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I.A.L. Diamond, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

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The Bank Dick

The Bank Dick, released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom, is a 1940 comedy film starring W. C. Fields.

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The Earth Day Special

The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

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The Jetsons

The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in primetime from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, then later in syndication, with new episodes in 1985 to 1987 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block.

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The Lego Movie

The Lego Movie is a 2014 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film written for the screen and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller from a story by Lord, Miller and Dan and Kevin Hageman.

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The man on the Clapham omnibus

The man on the Clapham omnibus is a hypothetical ordinary and reasonable person, used by the courts in English law where it is necessary to decide whether a party has acted as a reasonable person would – for example, in a civil action for negligence.

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The Narrator (Fight Club)

The Narrator, also known as Tyler Durden, is a fictional character appearing as both the central protagonist and antagonist of the 1996 Chuck Palahniuk novel Fight Club, its 1999 film adaptation of the same name, and the comic book Fight Club 2.

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The Office (U.S. TV series)

The Office is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from March 24, 2005, to May 16, 2013, lasting nine seasons.

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The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) is a short story by James Thurber.

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The Walking Dead (comic book)

The Walking Dead is an ongoing black-and-white comic book series created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore.

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Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.

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W. C. Fields

William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.

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Walter Mitty

Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My World and Welcome to It in 1942.

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Winston Smith

Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is a 1939 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields.

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Zé Povinho

Zé Povinho is the cartoon character of a Portuguese everyman created in 1875 by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman

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