Antihero Figure Essay

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5 Antihero Figures With Precious Life Lesson

I am a fan of fiction story, the reason is that because it’s interesting, in which a fictional story represents the real problems in life made into a work of literature. Compounded with intrigues and dramaturgy that are actually somewhat exaggerated and the effect can be knowingly or unknowingly read by the readers. In fact, if we intend to explore more about fiction story, we can find many things and possibly useful in our daily lives. Therefore, in this article I want to share about 5 antihero figures with precious life lesson What Is Anti-Hero Character?
Anti-hero is included in protagonist and in fact many of them become the main characters. The anti-hero figures are not like the protagonist
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This movie is very popular and the story has a lot of life lessons. One of superhero-antihero in this movie is Dominic Toretto. He was the leader of the protagonist in the movie. He is a professional street racer and a mechanic.

In the story, he and his crew often stealing millions of dollars, performing illegal street racing, hijacking high speed truck and often escape from the law. Until then he became an ex-convict and helped the FBI uncover and arrest felons. Behind the bad habits of Dominic, in fact he is the protector, lover, religious people, strong, and always put family first.

4. Jack Sparrow
Jack Sparrow is the main protagonist figure in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Of his role, he is clearly the anti-hero character, because he was a pirate. In addition, he also has cunning nature, deceitful to achieve its objectives, particularly liked rum and also likes to escape from problem. He looks like a drunken man and has a strange hand movements, he also called himself a lady man.

But behind it all, in fact Jack is a great fighter, although he prefers to avoid fighting. Jack is a very good captain even too good to his crew, until his crew dare to rebel. He is also willing to sacrifice to save others, especially to save Will & Elizabeth.

5. Han

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