Identity Of Hercules Essay

In today’s society, men are often stereotypically generalized to be powerful and strong figures. Men are usually expected to be masculine and seductive as it is evident with Disney’s Hercules action figure and the Dr. Pepper advertisement. Many people in life experience growing up differently and this person’s life is no different. Throughout their life, they start out having a feminine personality and lacked the body structure of a masculine boy when compared to others. So this person was often picked on and bullied and lowered his self-esteem about being a boy. Many go through phases to achieve what their true identity is and this boy did what he had to do to achieve that ‘Identity Achievement’. It will be unclear and confusing to his parents …show more content…
This allowed him to express for who he is as he was a talented dancer and actor where he showed potential and he even got sponsors from big companies like Disney. Anyone can achieve such glory if they put time and effort and prioritize it as their main goal in life. Letting others interfere with a person’s dream can just stress them out and break their vision of the future as this person had many obstacles but came across so many that he did not stop. The action figure of Hercules is a very nice physique of a healthy strong man. His muscles are vividly shown throughout his body has they are emphasized on his arms and thighs. Even his top clothing has his muscles are ‘showing’ through his chest armor where his pecks and abs are shown to have some build.
The makers of this action figure had the target audience of boys. Action figures usually have a realistic approach when using hard materials to replicate the human as opposed to a girls’ toy where they are ‘cartoony’ and not life-like. Action figures are meant to represent how men would look like in real-life such as a soldier or the character being