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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... sense experi- ence of the world . The interpretation of the world in which we find ourselves is the never - ending occupation of every human being , and the choice of tools we use to conduct this search for meaning is amongst the most ...
... sense : ' If I have sinned , what have I done to you , O watcher of men ? Why have you made me your target ? ' 5 Indeed Bildad , one of Job's now proverbial comforters , expresses similar confusion but where Job is confused over the ...
... sense God is often understood as both epistemologically and ontologically transcendent . This view , while not universally held even within the Christian tradition , 3 is a function of the view that God created the cosmos as an entity ...
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
Copyright | |
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