Heroes and VillainsHercules, Jesus, James Bond, Luke Skywalker, Gandalf, Frodo, Harry Potter, Buffy Summers, Spiderman, Batman, Captain Kirk, Dr. Who, Darth Vader, Sauron, Voldemort, Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, the Daleks, the Borg. Almost anybody living in the developed West would be able to group these individuals into two camps: the heroes and the villains. However, what criteria they may use to do this is less clear. Mike Alsford introduces us to a range of heroic and villainous archetypes on a journey through film, television, comic books, and literature. On the way, he addresses questions such as: What is a true hero? What is a true villain? Have we misunderstood these terms? What kind of societal values do our mythical heroes and villains represent? In trying to understand the extremes of hero and villain we are made more aware of our own ethical standards and given a space in which to explore contemporary concerns over notions of right and wrong, good and bad. |
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... Karl Barth , writing in The Christian Life , is quite adamant that ' the Fall ' was a fall not only away from God , but away from one another : ' In and with the sin of Adam , who wanted to be as God , there is already enclosed the sin ...
... Barth , Karl , The Christian Life , Church Dogmatics , Vol . IV / 4 , Lecture Fragments , trans . G.W. Bromiley , T & T Clark , 1981 , p.212 . 27. The original story has this happen in Vietnam during the 1960s and Stark being held by an ...
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
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