Where have all the heroes gone? Actually, literary heroes are out of style. In their place are the narrator who doesn’t even know his own mind and the other characters who are scenery. In drama, where several characters share in attempting to justify themselves, none are heroes—heroes don’t have much to say.
I don’t believe heros will ever go out of style. But that’s just my opinion.
A Hero is lifted from the mob. A hero lives a mundane existence as do we all, until circumstance blossoms the heroic out of the mundane. The successful story focuses upon the period when the heroic is rising, for it is boring to focus upon the mundane which is the greater temporal reality. However, the mundane must be sprinkled into the plot, to make a contrast. If a story is boring, perhaps it lacks focus upon the temporal span of the heroic period and gets lost in the mundane.