Throughout history the idea of ​​the hero or heroine has changed, but some common attributes remain. The hero says Bill Butler: “he is an archetypal figure, a paradigm who carries with him the possibilities of life, of courage, of love – the indefinables that themselves define our human lives”. In his seminal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell states that the hero: “a character of exceptional gifts” is “the man or woman who has been able to fight beyond his personal and local historical limits with respect to the generally valid limits, normally human forms”. It is clear that heroism is an essential part of human behavior and endeavor, so the idea of ​​the hero is at the center of our cultural thinking. While we shouldn't be hero worshiping, Jenni Calder says that because the hero: "represents the best in ourselves," we should be open in our response to the hero. A good romance writer presents heroines who are strong and powerful and who demonstrate the possibilities of being a woman. It is only after they have made themselves happy and created a better life that they are able to find love. As readers we are able to identify with such a protagonist, and in a sense we enter into the book and see the heroine's world through her eyes. The Romanesque heroine we know today was born in the nineteenth century. While it is true that romantic novels had existed before, something was continually being done to the heroines of such books. They were so oppressed that it was almost impossible to identify with them. The first Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1704) by Horace Walpole tells the story of an unmarried bride who attempts to escape her father-in-law, prevented by super nature. ..... half of the paper ...... either behave or think. The term "anti-heroine" refers to those characters who display the heroine's positive or negative qualities, allowing the reader to identify with the heroine. In Austen's novels it is common for the anti-heroine to compete with the heroine for the hero's love, although this does not do what makes the anti-heroine a bad person. Quite the anti-heroine, she often possesses admiral qualities. However, with the arguable exception of Jane Fairfax in Emma, ​​the antiheroine lacks the essential moral core that ultimately characterizes an Austen heroine. By comparing and contrasting both the characters and actions of the heroines with the anti-heroines in the novel, the strong character of Austen's protagonists and the journey they undertake can be understood as she grows personally and rationally with others..