Our Twisted Hero

A twisted hero is someone who demonstrates great leadership skills, manipulation tactics, and can lead a group of people to success, but does it in a warped or unethical manner. This is because someone who is twisted is, by definition, warped or has an unhealthy way of thinking. However, a hero is defined as a person who is admired or idealized for their courage, noble qualities, and outstanding achievements. They are perceived as mighty protectors and great leaders who can do amazing acts. They

Webster defines the crooked word of twisted as mentally or emotionally unsound or disturbed, giving synonyms like sick and cruel-minded. Merriam Webster also explains the idea of a hero as a person admired for achievements and noble qualities, and/or one who shows great courage. While agreeing with these denotations, twisted can have several different interpretations based on a person’s perspective. Factors that may change a person’s views on who or what is “twisted” are often his or her ideology, cultural

When a person abandons his or her beliefs of principle and reason it leads to submission. The book “Our Twisted Hero” by Yi Munyol, takes place in South Korea. It focuses on a new student, Han Pyongt’ae, transitioning to a new school with a harsh class monitor, Om Sokdae. This harshness causes Han to breakdown after a night of rebellion against Om. Han’s abandonment allows him to start to see the rewards of submitting to Om's rule. These rewards included him getting a taste of power, and being included

can become a successful class president. That’s just not realistic. That’s like saying you need to eat your pet to own it. So with all this fantasy conceptualization, how am I supposed to envelope just how much this question is abused through Our Twisted Hero? Throughout the book, Om Sokdae, a class monitor, utilizes violence and scare tactics to maintain his power. Even with his aggressive take on things, rebellion is prominent in all societies, no matter how big or small. Not everyone is blind to

narrators and also their trustworthiness. It is also important to assess how the author has used the narrators within a novel and to what extent this use has on a readers view of reliability. The novels Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad and A Hero of Our Time By Mikhail Lermontov both contain more than one narrator. Heart of Darkness has two narrators, an anonymous passenger on a pleasure ship who listens to Marlow's story and Marlow himself. The first narrator speaks in the first person plural

Pechorin --- A Byronic Hero A Hero of Our Time, written by Mikhail Lermontov, consists of 5 stories that reflect the life, the idea and the personality of the main character named Pechorin. Pechorin is not a typical hero in romantic literature perspective; instead, he is a great representation of a pathetic Byronic hero that more commonly appears in the time of Lermontov. Different from a traditional hero and as a typical Byronic hero, Pechorin is reflected to be self-centered and manipulative in

Lermontov’s usage of chance and coincidence as the mode of expression of fate can be seen explicitly in “Princess Mary” and “The Fatalist,” both short stories from Pechorin’s journal. “Princess Mary” retells the story of the time that Pechorin spent in the town of Pyatigorsk, a spa town located in the Caucases. In Pyatigorsk, Pechorin encounters an old acquaintance of his, Grushnitsky, who Pechorin secretly dislikes despite his veil of friendship. Also present in the town are Princess Ligovskaya

Mikhail Lermontov’s ‘A Hero of our Time’ is set in the 1840s, a crucial time in Russian history. Pechorin was a revolutionary character in Russian literature due to his cynical and amoral personality that alienates him from all social strata. ‘A Hero of our Time’ generated a large amount of outrage from the public due to Lermontov, claiming Pechorin to be the ‘hero’ of our its time. ’Bela’ is a framed narrative portrayed from the views of an old friend, Maxim Maximych, however, the story told by

in A Hero of Our Time is challenging the archetype of the Byronic hero. Throughout the novel, Lermontov offers a commentary on the ideals of a Byronic hero in 19th century Russia and how it has become fashionable to imitate qualities that were once scorned, especially when compared to the age-old ideals of the classic hero. The classical hero exhibited more traditionally exalted traits: courage, sacrifice, bravery. This is in clear contrast with the contemporary traits the typical Byronic hero exhibited:

Gentlemen” by Tadeusz Borowski has been one of those types. A heart-wrenching short story and I hate that I love it. Why do we like reading about the past that’s gone? More importantly, a past so horrific and cruel, then created into a fiction to please our curiosity of what we will never understand? Facts and numbers can only go so far. If you can’t tell already, I’m big on quotes. Almost every class I take, I find myself writing down phrases or ideas people say. I have quite a handful from you and I