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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... identity , coping with a variety of emotions and handling success and failure . One of the most significant things Buffy ever does , in my view , is befriend the school ' losers ' Willow and Xander thus alienating herself from the ' in ...
... identity – is governed by rational principles and the rule of the will while the flesh is dominated by its lusts and passions . It is telling that whenever Plato talks about evil then animal imagery is not far away . What he has in mind ...
... to function in the everyday world in short , sketches of various types of madness . All Batman's most effective scripters and artists have understood that madness - is a part of Batman's special identity ... 4 Perhaps Conclusion 125.
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
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