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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... killing any number of their opponents with extreme preju- dice . Jenny Sparks , the team leader , has this to say as ... kill . And you're getting only what you deserve.49 This unrestrained power in the service of an uncompromising moral ...
... killed in battle , man to man ... but this is different . I always knew the danger of berserker rages ... what might ... kill ... 41 In one of the Batman's conflicts with the considerably more powerful Superman he makes this interesting ...
... kill ... today.5 This of course returns us to the Kantian notion of duty and ' ought ' referred to back in Chapter ... killed and the day he took bloody revenge upon her killers . Anakin's hatred and fear are seen as dominating him to ...
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
Copyright | |
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