Antihero

an epiphany. It is the job of the author to not only compose a stellar work of art through the use countless literary devices and narrative styles, but also to bring their characters to life through words. The husband is introduced as the flawed antihero. He is left without a name and identified as a regular, imperfect man. He seems uncaring, unfeeling, and pathetic to the reader after he makes jokes and rude comments regarding blind people. Carver is able to play with this flawed character…

queen, dressing into women's clothing. He then peers into another room and sees two people spitting a drink on each other, he notes that “The hotel was lousy with perverts. I was probably the only normal bastard in the place” ( Salinger 62 ). The antihero then proceeds to go to a bar with one goal in mind, to get drunk. The bartender there, unfortunately for Holden, checked for his ID. Since Holden couldn't drink, he “Started giving the three old witches at the next table the eye again.” ( 70 ).…

Heroes are typically associated as dauntless, valiant, and ingenious characters who are extraordinarily trustworthy. However, not all heroes can boast such reputations. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck, the main hero and protagonist, is often termed as an unreliable narrator due to his lies and exaggerations. After growing up with an abusive father and without a mother, Huck narrates the story of his and Jim’s adventure down the Mississippi. Twain cleverly contrives Huck…

Calling himself an "Antichrist Superstar," he became a mainstream antihero. According to allmusic.com, Manson ripped up a copy of the Book of Mormon on stage during a concert in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ultimately, his acts on stage and his dark lyrics received backlash from many people. After he received criticism for influencing…

The Role of Klytaimnestra’s Story in The Odyssey Being a hero can mean many things, but nothing defines a hero more clearly than an antihero. So often, being a hero is defined by “doing good deeds”, but good deeds cannot be understood without their bad equivalents. Good could not possibly exist without evil, otherwise there would be no way to define it. That is the role that the story of Klytaimnestra fulfills in The Odyssey. The story is used to express the scope of Penelope’s loyalty to…

Catch-22, published in 1961, is probably the best-known and most widely read novel of World War II. It examines the social relationships and pressures of the contemporary society. A darkly comic novel, it centers on the antihero Yossarian and draws upon Heller’s own experience as a bomber pilot stationed on Corsica, an island off the west coast of Italy, with the Army Air Forces in 1944 during World War II to provide a black humourish look at war, bureaucracy and the maddening…

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most eccentric and famous writers of the 19th century. Poe was tormented by the idea of death, not only physical but also spiritual. His anguish, mixed with the excessive use of alcohol, opium, and a marked obsession for women, projected him in a dark and travailed word of ghosts, fear, and visions. This darkness marked his entire life, and consequently all of his work as an artist. Proof of that are his famous short stories, in fact they are the real and only…

Sydney Carton is a very complex character who develops tremendously throughout the novel. As stated in an article regarding the novel, “Sydney Carton is an unlikely hero by any definition. If anything, we might be tempted to think of him as an antihero. He drinks himself to stupor on a regular basis, and he is generally depressive, apathetic, and irresponsible” (Gonzalez-Posse 1). This impression eventually changes when Lucie Manette enters into his life. The reader learns that Carton is truly…

don’t believe you” before leaving Cersei at King’s Landing. Jaime’s morals are now starting to become a hindrance to his relationship with Cersei. Jaime Lannister’s story so far has been a tale of character progression. He has evolved from this cocky Antihero into someone who could possibly be the hero of Westeros. As the final season of Game of Thrones approaches, it will be interesting to see how Jaime will fare without Cersei in his life. Will he go running back to her, or will he stand up…

In the novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Christopher McCandless is looked down upon, due to his lack of wisdom, maturity, and responsibility. McCandless ventured “into the wild” in order to follow his dream. Society criticized McCandless for being so foolish, but what they do not realize is that everyone has their own ambitions. McCandless will never be a hero in the eyes of society because they need to follow their own route to self-discovery. A hero is generally someone idealized for…