Our Twisted Hero

previously known as the New World. Also that Columbus was a hero and that is why every year the second Monday in October we celebrate Columbus Day for all the amazing things he did! Unfortunately, everything you have been taught has not been the truth. But do not worry kids; I am here to tell you the truth about our once known “hero” Christopher Columbus, and you will all come to discover that he is more like a villain rather than a hero. The story of Columbus goes a little something like this class…

other than they are” (Steer 639). Brecht accomplishes a desire for activism by alienating the audience from his characters, or by trying to “free socially conditioned phenomena from that stamp of familiarity which protects them against our grasp” (Brecht 192). The hero is more a creation of a social and political atmosphere than a living breathing character, and is therefore viewed as an object, something inhuman. Walker’s caricatures follow this structure, ranging from the slave men and women in Gone

entity or political unit from another. When I watched the movie “Crash”, I kept asking myself, what are the boundaries dividing people from each other which cause all crashes physically and morally. Ryan is a racist police officer, a nice son and a hero. During his work, he treated black people in a very disrespectful way, which hurt the feeling of lawful citizens, even his Caucasian partner, Hansen. However, in a life-threatening situation, he did his duty to save a black woman’s life. His mean attitude

they get started? Well, the second question is easy to answer, they were inspired by ancient heroes in the spirit of Beowulf and Achilles. Now, they were very similar to each other; but they had their differences too. No well written character is a hero “just because they are”, they need to have a motive for their actions, and it’s often a personal reason. Even back when Achilles was fighting for the Greek Empire, he initially wanted little to do with the

to mention the presence of gods, that influence the decisions of characters in the Trojan war. This is due to the belief that gods are non existant in modern society. Which completely contradicts the greek belief system where gods create our fate and influence our decisions. The greek society was so dependent on the gods that the very success of a human or a battle depended on the influence of the gods. The only god that was present in the movie is Achilles’s mother Thetis. Thetis had more significance

The Shining; A Modern Gothic Tale Television today serves as a method to confront our societal fears in a comfortable setting, like books and oral tales did hundreds of years ago. The film The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick, although a modern medium, still draws from the original gothic novel. Compared to The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, The Shining plays on the same classic and applicable anxiety of finding terror within the nuclear family. Kubrick uses the gothic theme to address

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there is an excellent example of a tragic hero. The main character, Macbeth, has a very long downward spiral throughout the drama, ultimately ending in his death and label of a tragic hero. Macbeth’s character development throughout the tragedy goes from a noble, loyal soldier to the king, all the way to a murdered villain. Macbeth’s character development in the first act is a very sudden downward spiral. At the beginning of act I, Macbeth is loyal and committed

masculine beings? When did such a broad term become so cliché and vague? Through analyzing a range of Greek epic poems and plays, I have realized that not all heroes are god-like or mighty: heroes can have fears, complicated adversities that only a true hero would ever overcome. With heroism, one should be morally in-tact, filled with courage and the will to do what is right. While each epic poem features its’ own heroic figure, they each possess different traits and attributes that truly form the quality

Rasnake English 1020 November 10, 2015 Paper 3~ Tragic Hero What is tragedy? What makes someone or something a tragic hero? A tragedy is “A serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior face and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion elicits the pity or terror” (Merriam-Webster). Tragedy can be a good or a bad thing in life. Also, depending on what the tragedy is, it should have a powerful impact on our lives. A tragedy can change someone into being a better

identifying with an audience dealing with the same sense of confusion. The system, at the time of the recession, was falling apart. Schools were closing; prisoners were being released due to overcrowding, yet it appeared as if people were more concerned with him and Swift. At the end of “Power,” West questions in plain voice, “Are you strong enough to let power go?” The incredibly deep and wondrous record revealed a darker side of West that showed his transformation and desire to once more speak