In Umberto Eco’s “The Myth of Superman”, he describes Superman as being a mythical character. Since he describes Superman as being mythical, he draws on this description to human beings. Unlike human beings Superman wasn’t born on earth, he was born on planet Krypton, already making himself unknown to the real world. In Eco’s essay he goes deeper in depth on creating an image for superman and the unrealism that people foreshadow him to be. Eco states in his essay that there are three main heroes – the mythic hero, the novel hero, and the comic hero. The ‘mythic hero’ is supposed to be strong and larger than life. For the mythic hero the adventures and ending of the hero are strong and larger than life. The ‘novel hero’ is the
