Tony Stark: Byronic Hero

The first Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr. came out in 2008 originally a comic book series and tv show remake. Iron Man starts off as Tony Stark a businessman on a trip for his job and being attacked and held captive until escaping by making the first version of the Iron Man suit. After there were many conflicts involving attacks with other robotic machines. American mythology writer Joseph Campbell suggests that most hero’s follow a specific pattern called the hero’s journey. In this pattern the hero leaves their regular life and plunges into the unknown with many challenges to overcome.

The character’s name was Anthony Stark, but was known as Tony (Admin1). Tony Stark was an engineer who suffered from a heart injury when he was kidnapped by a group of terrorists. He created a suit of armor that empowered his escape, and helps in protecting the world. Tony Stark is a very witty character. Tony uses sarcasm throughout many comic books, and all of his movies.

A hero can teach many life lessons, morals and various other things. A hero is someone who can be seen as a role model or hope to people. A view of a hero is different to everyone. A hero can save someone from a fire, they can be there to give support or even enlighten people. My heroes may differ from another person writing this same paper. The title hero is given to people for multiple reasons.

(26) he feels his soul grow under Ultima guidance. One of Tony’s obstacles in life is to become a man. His mother does not want him to become a man but his father argues saying “everything Tony sees and does makes him a man”(37) but Maria says that it is a sin for a boy to grow to be a man by saying that “life destroys the pureness God gives”. (36) but this is not the only diction Tony has to make. His first dream portrays his insecurity about his identity. He has to choose between the two is he a “fine vaquero” or a “farmer-priest”(9) He is confused, on one side its his mother and on the other its his father. Who should he become? He is also confused about which God to believe in. the golden Carp, who he marvels at the “bright golden-pagan God”(114) on the other side the catholic God “who could not forgive”(120) He does not understand why God cannot forgive Narcisio who is a good man while the Virgin Mary can forgive the evil Teronio. Tony is confused throughout most of the novel. Tony believes that the women always forgive, therefore in his child’s logic he thinks women in general do not judge but always forgive. He has a lot of decisions to make. He remembers his dream where he sees Andrew at Rosie’s and remembers what Andrew had told him in his dream that Andrew “will wait and not enter until (Tony) looses (his) innocence”.(85) Tony’s belief that

Nearly all heroes are faced with a variety of inconceivable tasks which in turn help to overcome obstacles that the character may face. In Spider-Man, Peter Parker is forced to overcome these impediments so that he can help protect the people in his city. The task that first illustrates this quest is Spider-Man’s revenge on the man who killed his uncle and committed robbery. To catch this criminal, though, Spider-Man has to learn how to use his mind: thinking quickly and on-the-spot. Not only does it take courage for Spider-Man to defeat this criminal, it takes quick reflexes that only his “spidey senses” can offer him. In the end, Spider-Man tricks the man and is successful in turning him into the police. Another example of a

Tony’s original perspective about the world changes when he meets Ultima, a wise woman who comes to live with him, for the first time and when Ultima teaches him about the world. When meeting Ultima, an old woman, Tony looks into her wise eyes and sees “for the first time the wild beauty of our hills and the magic of the green river” (Anaya 12). Ultima, a healer, comes to live with Tony’s family because his mother likes the old woman. With the old healer, Tony’s view on the world

In the beginning of Iron Man, the main protagonist, Tony Stark, was generally a bad person. He was an extreme example of the celebrity stereotype-- flashy, arrogant, self-absorbed, and rude. Stark took personal honors, as well as relationships with others, for granted. But that all changed when Stark was kidnapped by a terroristic rebel group. During his time as a prisoner, Tony saw what horrors his technology could be used for, and later escaped captivity humbled and changed. From the moment he returned, Stark’s character started growing into a caring and heroic figure. Specifically, Tony Stark emerged as a new man, actually caring for his assistant, Pepper Pots, being concerned about what

Lastly, a Byronic hero has genuine guilt. This requires more action than contemplating, and continuously reiterating that a tragedy by his hand occurred. Manfred possesses all of these traits; however, Victor lacks true remorse and retention of his independence.

Tony is an indian. In the beginning, you get the impression, that he is a sweet, innocent and caring boy. He’s very helpful but also very naive. Through the story, it gets more and more clear, that there is something mentally wrong with Tony. He keeps believing, that the cop is something that his parents warned him about in his childhood, wich he calls ‘a masked dancer’. His parents told him not to look into the eyes, so in Tony’s head, the cop’s sunglasses equals the masked dancer’s mask. And Tony ends up killing the cop, and telling Leon that everything is O.K., it’s killed, they somethimes take on strange forms. He also compares the cop’s raised billy club to the witch’s raised human-bone in his dream.

For the movie Iron Man, the whole movie focus on the life of Tony Stark, a billionaire, a technical geniuses, and he also own a weapon manufacturing company which was belonged his father. At the beginning of the film, his life can be describes as extravagant, but after he is kidnapped by the new-found troop, he has some changes on his character trait. After Tony survives from the new-found troop, he decides to shut down his weapon manufactory. Next, he tries to put his focus on the iron armor, he wants to make some useful products to benefit the society rather than keep his weapon business because his weapons in different hands will have different results, some of them bring disaster to the world. When Tony decides to attack the troop to save the innocent villagers in Gulmira, he shows he wants to become a better person. Tony tries to practice virtues in his life to become better human being, and these behaviors helps him to bring good life for his communities.

Byronic hero is said to be intelligent, cunning and able to adapt, mysterious as well as

In the book The Iliad, by Homer, the main character, Achilles, is a Greek warrior who is part divine and part human. During the story, Achilles undergoes the steps in becoming a hero. Each of these steps prepares him for the final moment, when he becomes a hero. Achilles is a hero because he goes through many of the steps necessary in the path to becoming a hero.

The elevated emotional state of the Byronic Hero leads him to be or appear egocentric and introverted “hating the world he had almost forgot”, characteristics which deter from the standardized hero who “fights for the good of man-kind.” Guilt from the past also plagues the Byronic Hero, “for he through Sin’s labyrinth had run, nor made atonement when he did amiss…” (Byron,C.H.181). The haunting illusion to past wrongs or sins taints the Hero and casts a shadow over his overall character and deeds. Due to his past the Hero often carries some form of defect (physical or physiological), a “ heart and harp have lost a string…” (Byron,C.H. 210) that further isolates him from society.

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From the beginning of human existence people have told stories that involve a hero saving the day. There are many archetypes that can be used to compare the heroes from then to now, but there are certain qualities in a hero that one should compare first. Starting with the classics from the past with Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and The Iliad, to more modern day heroes that include: Superman, Flash and Deadpool, there are numerous quantities of heroes that people have heard stories about and compared with. In the time-honored epic poem, The Iliad, Achilles is the hero that is able to win every battle he forges into. This story is about many extravagant obstacles that Achilles is able to surge over with ease while keeping his identity known. Compare