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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 24
... mind games . No more mind . BUFFY : Tell me what happened . SPIKE : I tried to find it of course . BUFFY : Find what ? ... SPIKE : The spark , the missing the piece that fit ... that would make me fit ... because you didn't want ...
... mind an observation made by the Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill who makes the following point : All the grand sources , in short , of human suffering are in a great degree , many of them almost entirely , conquerable by human ...
... mind or spirit . Fichte , for example , absolutising the general will , the state , by virtue of its being a contractually limited finite manifestation of the absolute mind or will , effectively argues that there exists a metaphysical ...
Contents
Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
Copyright | |
2 other sections not shown