Personal identification with protagonists in nineteenth-century French and Russian literature

Lost illusions, by Honore de Balzac was meaningful to me because I identified with Lucien Chardon. He overcame and humiliation and provided life lessons about the world and human nature. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal touched me through the class struggle of Julien Sorel. He improved society during the Bourbon Restoration. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky influenced me through Raskolinkov. I identified with his conscience, notwithstanding that his applied only retrospectively.

(These were all the progressively shorter working drafts that were too many characters. I'm including them in case you want to make any changes on your end to the shorter version above using anything I had to delete to fit the character maximum.)

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Lost illusions, by Honore de Balzac was extremely meaningful to me because I identified with Lucien Chardon. A poet full of ambitions, he fought hard to succeed and to overcome the suffering attributable to humiliation inflicted by others. The author provides valuable life lessons about the working of our world and in dynamics of human nature, society, and media that transcend the centuries since the book was first published.

The Red and the Black, by Stendhal touched me because I identified with the struggle of the protagonist, Julien Sorel. As a member of the lower class, he developed his intellectual talents and tried to address the needs of his society during the era of the Bourbon Restoration. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky influenced me through the protagonist, Raskolinkov. I identified particularly with the significance of conscience in human life, notwithstanding that its role was limited to retrospective rather than the prospective view in the case of Dostoyevsky's principal character.

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Lost illusions, by Honore de Balzac was meaningful to me because I identified with Lucien Chardon. He fought to overcome suffering and humiliation, providing life lessons about the world, human nature, society, and media. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal touched me through the class struggle of Julien Sorel. He applied his talents to the needs of society during the Bourbon Restoration. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky influenced me through Raskolinkov. I identified with his conscience, notwithstanding that he applied it only retrospectively.

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Lost illusions, by Honore de Balzac was meaningful to me because I identified with Lucien Chardon. He overcame suffering and humiliation and provided life lessons about the world and human nature. The Red and the Black, by Stendhal touched me through the class struggle of Julien Sorel. He applied his talents to improve society during the Bourbon Restoration. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky influenced me through Raskolinkov. I identified with his conscience, notwithstanding that his applied only retrospectively.