A Hero of Our Time

figure out who is who. A lot of times heroes are just people who take out the bad guy and has his or her own personal issues. Whatever the case may be when it comes to our villains and their stories they always have a few things in common. They want to either hurt the protagonist or some other innocent, they are hateful, mean, and typically start off psychotic or end psychotic. Whether or not they are any better than the hero they always have features that are ten times worse than the…

“I think a hero is a person really intent on making this a better place for all people.” –Maya Angelou. A hero is someone who does what’s right, no for the reward, but for the benefit of the positive outcome. Heroes are needed in many situations. A world full of villains and no heroes would be out of control. The action doesn’t need to be very big, but as long as they’re helping, they’re a hero. Heroes are NOT people who hurt you. Heroes do things for the better. Heroes are people who do the…

the Byronic hero celebrated by Lord Byron in many of his greatest works, including Manfred. Mary Shelley’s depiction of the life and actions of Frankenstein and his Monster, however, suggest that the Byronic hero is not to be lauded as a great and sympathetic character exuding true independence and courage, but rather as a self-centred and contemptible character with no regard for the way his actions affect others. According to Peter Thorslev, author of The Byronic Hero, the Byronic hero is one…

My Michigan Hero "Squeak, squeak, squeak," Kelly sighed while pushing the heavy breakfast cart down the hallways of the school. Her back will crack and ache as she pushes the big bulky cart, but she now she has to do her job in order to get paid. She will do anything to help make the school a better place for her children and other children who attend the school. That is why my mother is my Michigan hero because she helps everyone and everything. My mom is a kind hearted and funny woman,…

villain of everything. But Milton has used him as a hero who was doing something in which everyone thought was evil. Satan's actual attempt to defeat god was evil but all the qualities in which Satan showed us were not evil. All the leadership qualities and acts are showing us that he is in fact a hero. Another scholar which writes that Satan was in fact a hero was A.J.A Waldorle. He wrote: Dryden thought the Devil was Milton's hero, and we must agree that he was, if we are…

the status of hero. The first couple of stages he must go through is pulling the sword from the stone, a feat only accomplishable by those chosen to be king and he must emerge as a true king from a mere child. He will conquer many lands throughout Europe and defeat evil to return his people to a state of peace and order. Even after all King Arthur accomplishes he must return to nature, a stage that every hero must go through. In a time of need, Great Britain was in need of a hero. Mysteriously…

In Macbeth, William Shakespeare develops an illusion of Macbeth, the main character, who seems to have the characteristics of a kindhearted villain and a tragic hero. An illusion is defined as, “something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality” (Dictionary.com). Shakespeare 's specialty is catching the attention of his readers from the beginning to the end of his plays. At the beginning of Act 1 it is hard to tell where exactly Shakespeare is going with…

Martin Luther King Jr. show many times of him being a hero of dignity. One especially during his march where he and 50,000 other black and white protestors marched from Salem to Alabama’s capital Montgomery. This march was one of the most violent given the nickname, Bloody Sunday. The protesters were met by state troopers and were sprayed by fire hoses, attacked by vicious dogs and had poisonous gas thrown at them. While all of that was going on Martin Luther King Jr. still stayed calm and did…

This world we live in is darkness. We live bound in society for all of our breathing days; forcefully restricted and bogged down by its own rules and moralities. We are denied any semblance of choice of freedom while we bind ourselves with the rules and strictures we’ve set upon ourselves. We can wear this, we can’t consume that, don’t speak of such matters with others. The society has the capability to deem that each and everyone persisting within it be corrupt and coaxed by the abyss. A…

Odysseus What is a hero? A hero is a person who combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, strength or bravery. In The Odyssey written by Homer, the protagonist Odysseus has traits of a hero such as loyalty, courage, and cunningness. The king of Ithaca shows these traits multiple times throughout his twenty year journey home. One way Odysseus is a hero is because he is loyal to his wife, Penelope. On his journey home, Odysseus is held captive by Circe and Calypso but never…