Question 3 of five big questions.

Is Peter from the story, 'Cue For Treason,' a hero? Peter is a boy being force to run from his troubles due to the consequences he may face for a "Attempted Murder" of a service man for noble man and lord Sir Philip Morton. Peter went on a journey with a teathre group while keeping away and not being noticed by Sir Philip Morton on his new job. Peter later on in the story would end up saving Queen Elizabeth from her attempted assassination. This leads back to the question, is Peter a hero?

Lets clarify what a hero is. On dictionary.com a hero is described as a:

1.a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noblequalities.

2.a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed aheroic act and is regarded as a model orideal: He was a local hero when he savedthe drowning child.

3.the principal male character in a story, play, film, etc.

(I believe Dictionary.com is being sexist.)

Now, Peter did show courage and ability. He also showed how brave he is in the situation he was in with the possibly he may get noticed by Sir Philip. Peter does actually not have heroic qualities, because he was technically running away for most of the story which does not show he is a hero until his problem with 'The Yellow Gentleman' that lead to him unravelling the plan to kill Queen Elizabeth. Finally, Peter is the principal male character in a story (Cue For Treason) because he is the character with the problem. So now we can say that Peter is a hero for his actions of saving the queen.

Now is Peter an accidental of intentional hero? Well Peter was not involved with saving the Queen until Peter and Kit had told the Queen's secret service that their maybe a plot to assassinate the Queen. Peter also could have avoided the situation if he had not given the yellow gentleman the script he had to rehearse for one of Shakespeare's plays that he would preform in. Peter is a good example of the unsuspecting rescuers of the plane crash in Richmond a couple of days ago. If it wasn't for their good nature and timing those survivors may have not survived. (excluding the pilot who had died in the crash) We can now say that Peter Brownrigg is a Hero. An Accidental Hero!