Compare And Contrast Essay On Hercules

Being a hero is not shown by who they are but what they do. Hercules and Heraclês showed he was a hero. He also showed that he had to progress to become the hero he wanted to be. Along the way of becoming a hero, he met people that he may have loved. There are many similarities and differences between the cultural values of love, progression, and being a hero in the movie Hercules and the myth, “Heraclês.” Hercules has the value of love in both, the myth as well as the movie. In the movie, Hercules, the main character has a love interest throughout the story. He falls in love with her in the beginning and instead of going to be a God, in the end, he stays with her thanks to the value of love. He loves her too much to go away from being with her. In the myth, Heraclês does not have someone that he truly loves. He is just there to do his 12 labors and is not there to have a relationship. In both, the movie and the myth, he has a relationship with someone who he cares about. There is a value of progression shown in the myth along with the movie, Hercules. At first, Hercules is displayed as being clumsy and not excellent at anything. He is like this due to being a partial God and is too strong to do anything without damaging something. When he realized he was partial God, he wanted to regain his full …show more content…
The movie shows how the cultural values of American is to be seen. Hercules was portrayed very different than Heraclês. Hercules appeared as a strong figure for American culture to demonstrate what things should be like or how they should change. Heraclês was displayed as a Greek individual to show the different values of Greek Culture. The myth teaches the values of the Greeks to help them understand their culture and the movie shows Americans how the culture should