Out of all of the attributes any one person could have, courage should be considered to be the most important of them all. The reason courage is so important is because it drives a person to do things that not every average person would do. It is what usually separates the main character from the rest of the characters in a story and makes him seem like a hero. No real person is a hero they just have hero like attributes that make them seem that way. Courage is one of those, because again it drives people to do things they normally wouldn’t. Courage is having no fear, and courage is having the desire to do something despite the obstacles that may come before. Most of all, courage is the most important attribute because it gives a character …show more content…
Equality shows courage in a number of ways throughout the story. In fact he shows it in more ways than one, and is probably the most courageous character out of all of these stories. Equality lives in a time where everything has gone primitive and there is no room for innovation whatsoever. Equality however, despite being assigned the job of street sweeper wants to share his unique and intuitive ideas with his town. However, when he shows them his invention he is shot down and punished. Equality then takes this opportunity to leave the town forever. This takes more courage than just about anything else. Leaving everything he knows behind and going to start a new life of which he will not know what to do but will have to figure it out as he goes alongside someone he has hardly even met. And he succeeds. Because Equality is courageous he succeeds, and he has the confidence to know that he will do well in a very tough …show more content…
Rosalind faces a situation where her father has been exiled by her uncle due to past wars, and Rosalind is about to be exiled or otherwise killed by that same uncle. In spite of this terrible situation she takes the problem head on and goes out into the wilderness with her cousin Celia and meets a boy by the name of Orlando however she is dressed as a guy. Rosalind throughout most of this play shows courage because she is doing things that no traditional princess such as a herself would ever even dream of doing. And she does it like it is no big deal and she does it ease. “A gallant curtle-ax upon my thigh, A boar-spear in my hand, and in my heart Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will We'll have a swashing and a martial outside— As many other mannish cowards have That do outface it with their semblances” (1.3.115-119). This grouping of lines is when Rosalind is deciding to be Ganymede. This shows us that She is taking on a situation that would be tough for many other people, and yet she calls, those others mannish cowards. This shows she is courageous enough to take on a situation as rough as hers and she is going to make the best of