Niche but topical (in a somewhat limited way admittedly): The question of whether Blake and Shelley were correct to say Milton made Satan the hero of Paradise Lost is not the whole question. What they (surely) recognised was that creating a protagonist, just by the mechanics of storytelling…

… necessarily produces empathy and identification. A story requires us to understand a protagonist’s motivation - and understanding requires some degree of identification. In effect the whole power of story-telling comes from its ability to allow us to imagine ourselves in someone else’s shoes.