Doubt operates as the central heroic value in the novel

Evidence

Yours is not a face that suggests an easy temper. Holbein shows us contained tension, willed constraint, subdued passion about to break out. Perplexed, you ask yourself, what should I do? How can I serve flesh and spirit? The point about our human nature is that we must go to work on it. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1156 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Reader trust in a fallible narrator is the story’s hardest task. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 533; Character emerges from unresolved inner contradiction — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1156; The modern novel shifts the hero’s dominant relation to reality from space to time — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 364

Related

• Character emerges from unresolved inner contradiction (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Character emerges from unresolved inner contradiction #corroborates (0.55) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1156