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But if Witt is ultimately an ethereal martyr, Welsh turns out to be a Bogart-like romantic who can't stop feeling pain in the face of an absent God.
Already isolated by temperament, he seems more vulnerable than a conventionally nice martyr.
Till his dying day, Ross continued to paint himself as a martyr.
Banks tells the story from the perspective of Brown's son, who joined his father in his famous 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry--a narrative choice that allows Banks to show "the familial repercussions of living with a visionary and martyr" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some critics complain that Banks sermonizes.
Lest one think I'm exaggerating Katz's martyr complex, check out Virtuous Reality 's Chapter 7, in which he chronicles the life and times of another political rebel who embraced a new technology to speak truth to power and suffered greatly for it: Thomas Paine.