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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... develop- ment of the Freedom of Spirit as developing throughout history . Bertrand Russell makes this point when he writes of Hegel : In external relations ... the State is an individual , each State is independent as against others ...
... develop the notion of a social contract , a socio - political tool for maintaining social cohesion in the face of the natural freedom of humanity . Locke argues that in their natural state all human beings find themselves in a state of ...
... require power or ability or status or recognition or knowledge but simply that one exists fully in and as part of the world . This is something that we learn as we grow and develop social skills but it is equally something Conclusion 137.
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
Copyright | |
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