Similarities Between Aevar And Avatar

Satan’s character embodies the idea of a heroic figure because he questions what he feels to be true, even though his tragic fall is that he becomes easily misguided.

Satan was unwilling to back down, no matter how great God’s power. This mission stands out as an element of the epic hero. In almost all epics written the hero has to stifle past guarded boundaries in order to complete goals. Satan’s bravery in trying to learn answers concerning his existence in heaven and his damnation to Hell is noble. Determination to derive truth is an admirable quality. Though his bitterness creates negative characteristics, his core purpose is not entirely blasphemous. He considers all that is placed before him and says in book 1, “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven” (263). He knows that Hell is a place of doom and torture, but he is committed to living there with dignity and hopes to eventually rise above the creator and gain back what he feels he is entitled to as a living being. This acceptance of his conditions and determination to overcome makes him the underdog that an audience cannot help but root for. Everyone knows what it’s like to be in dark place with no visible escape. People want to be able to relate to a character that remains hopeful. In this sense Satan seems very heroic and critics have even gone as far as interpreting God as the villain.

Satan’s fall can be easily broken up into four steps: he came to think of himself too highly, putting himself equal to God; he made a following for himself; he plotted a rebellion with his fellow rebel angels; and he attempted to carry out the rebellion. His attempt to overthrow God and obtain power was, however, futile and easily thwarted. Satan was severely demoted and he spent the rest of the plot trying to pervert every good thing as if it would be to any avail to do so. He attempted to exert his own powers over creation and tried to get a foothold so that he could gain more power. His extreme arrogance led to his fall from grace. “This is the same willfulness which lies behind his rebellious claim in heaven that he is ‘self-begot’…What Satan the general refuses to give up here…is…individual glory, which he pursues at all costs.” (Loewenstein, 56-57). Considering that Satan was an angel in the presence of God at the beginning, he had no excuse such as ignorance to claim. Satan’s rebellion began within himself with little else to prompt him. Satan had the ambition to raise a rebel force, but army or no army, he surely would have thought himself more powerful than he ought have. His pride also got in the way of him ever being restored to his former position. “As part of his task of exculpating God…Satan explains that even if he could repent and get back to heaven ‘by act of grace’, it would do

Soo afterword, a shinigami named Yusuke used his zanpakuto on Rukia, which not only nearly wiped her existance from this world, but also nearly made her kill ichigo. His Zanpakuto was considered so terrifying that after the battle ichigo described it as one of the most savage and brutal fights he had ever been in.

But if Satan does only what God wants, there is no external proof that Satan indeed had exercised his will. Satan cannot be content with mere assent that looks like blind obedience. Dissent, on the other hand, is absolute proof of Satan's individual will being realized over against God's will. Satan's intent seems to be to prove the existence of his will rather than, as God wants, to prove the independently good content of his will. By dissent, Satan shows himself to be more concerned with himself than with God, with the appearance of free will than with its real content. Here is the second major constraint under which Satan lies: as a rule, he only recognizes that part of himself which is disobedient. This constraint, unlike the one natural to Satan's will, is self-imposed.

For example, Satan compares humans to sheep, and says that they mostly follow others and tend to follow the aggressive and pitiless minority, afraid to assert themselves. Man’s Moral Sense leads him to follow others since he has the preconceived notion that if everyone does it, then it must be the right thing to do. He explains that Man alone is “kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves.” He says that we go to war for no apparent reason and “it is unjust and dishonorable, as there is no necessity for it”, but Moral Sense drives us to it. Satan exclaims that “Man is to me as a red spider is to an elephant”.

John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, has been the subject of criticism and interpretation through many years; these interpretations concur in that Adam and Eve are the sufferers of the poem, and it is their blight to lose Paradise because of their disobedience; however, their exile is merely a plight brought by Satan, and it is he who suffers exile before any others. Satan changes from Book I of the poem to Book XII; his introduction is heroic and grand, appearing as a hero rebelling against an unjust God. But by the finalization of Milton’s poem, Satan is a burnt shell of himself and, though ruler of Pandemonium, he sits in a throne in the lowest pit from God’s light. Satan’s exile brings forth the salvation of mankind and his own regressive transformation; tying in with the theme of disobedience, Satan’s exile gives

As a teenager who’s looking at the next stage of my life, I find that there is not too much different between my current situation and Aang’s experiences. In his story, Aang first discovers he’s in charge of the fate of the world when he is twelve. He eventually runs away because of the inner conflict created by his desires and duties and is frozen in an iceberg for a hundred years. Once he is broken out, he is discovered as the Avatar and is forced on a journey - which he intends at first to be a trip to have fun and teach his friend how to waterbend.

Satan encourages his followers and reminds them of their original cause. He shows great leadership skills by re-emphasizing their ideas that at least when they are reigning in Hell, G-d doesn't interfere, and although it is Hell it is still worth ruling rather than serving in Heaven. Satan is dwelling on his power which could be seen as his tragic flaw. He is allowing his pride and ego to surface by glorifying Hell (calling it "profoundest") and declaring himself in possession of Hell. He starts to think of the idea of Heaven and Hell as a mindset. He starts to believe that the mind is what creates a place as Heaven and a place as Hell. Satan feels as though Heaven is Hell because he must serve G-d there, but in Hell, he has a true Heaven because he is served and worshipped. This could be determined as his tragic flaw.

“Satan is a portrait of rebellion gone wrong, but not of the wrongs of rebellion” (Bryson). Cromwell later diminished, and Charles II was bestowed to King of England, while Satan is still trying to destroy all of God’s creations, and diminish their good moral, and qualities.

He explains that “The quest consists of five things: (a) a quester, (b) a place to go, (c) a stated reason to go there, (d) challenges and trials en route, and (e) a real reason to go there.”(3) James Cameron’s Avatar includes all these factors. In the year 2154, Jake Sully(a) travels to Pandora(b) to fill the shoes of his late sibling Tom Sully. What once was Tom’s orders to befriend and earn the trust of the Na’vi became Jake’s(c). As he would gain their trust by fighting creatures and learning the culture(d), the military schemed to conquer and exploit Pandora’s rich minerals. However as the film progresses, Jake abandons the Military’s greedy plan. Instead he advocates and propels the protection for the Na’vi tribes and the environment(e). By way of this quest, Cameron successfully illustrates transformation of the main character. From an individual who follows an authoritative voice, Jake Sully becomes an individual who leads and creates imperative change. Cameron’s screenplay Avatar depicts not only a perfect example of Foster’s description of a ‘quest’, but also the positive transformation of an

The story formula or plot is the specific actions and events that filmmakers select, and the order in which they arrange those events and actions to effectively convey on-screen the movie’s narrative to a viewer. Avatar takes place in a futuristic mid-22nd century, a paraplegic marine, Jake Sully (Worthington), reports for duty, a mission meant for his now deceased brother, on the lush habitable moon in the Alpha Centauri star system, named Pandora. A greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge (Ribisi) has figured out that Pandora is home to a minable ore, unobtanium an expensive superconductor. Selfridge’s intentions are to drive the native humanoid tribe called the "Na 'vi" out of their homes in order to mine the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. Jake gathers information for Colonel Quaritch (Lang), the cooperating military unit, and Selfridge in exchange for a surgery to help him walk again. Jake does this by attempting to infiltrate the native tribe people with the use of an experimental "avatar" identity, a device that makes him sound and look like one of their own. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe, he

One of these obstacles is Satan’s insecurity; he encounters moments of weakness along the pathway to glory, but he recognizes them and grows stronger in his resolve, like a true classical hero. For example, when Satan enters Eden he is amazed by its beauty. Again he considers repenting to God but he justifies the bitterness he feels as foretelling of evil actions he intends to commit on humans (and snakes). Additionally, he has to justify the reason he rebelled once again and convince himself that he is hell and, “in the lowest deep a deeper deep / still threatening to devour me opens wide / to which the hell I suffer seems a heaven,” he is happier now than he was in Heaven (4.1-78). He goes on to say that he will feel no fear or shame in doing evil because evil is his good (4.104-113). Satan accomplishes his goal of tempting Eve to evil against God, and so slithers victoriously back to Hell. When he reaches Hell, he is treated like a king by his followers.

Satan comes to man with his temptations as an angel of light, as he came to Christ. He has been working to bring man into a condition of physical and moral weakness, that he may overcome him with his temptations, and then triumph over his ruin. ...He well knows that it is impossible for man to discharge his obligations to God and to his fellow-men, while he impairs the faculties God has given him. The brain is the capital of the body... pg. 236

As Satan later claims, “To reign is worth ambition .. /Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.” (PL, I: 262-63, p.156) His statement suggests that his fatal flaw might be his ambition, his desire to become even more powerful than he once was. This image of Satan having a 'fatal flaw', something that drives him into destruction, connects him with the idea of Aristotle's hamartia, and connects him to the imagery of the other a 'good person' who has fallen from grace, but is nonetheless a hero. Satan is also connected to Aristotle's idea that “heroic virtue is superhuman, godlike, and divine”5, when he is described to be “stretched out huge in length” (PL, I: 209, p.155) across the lake, further imprinting the image of his heroic status.