Antihero

Greene’s use of Bendrix as an antihero in The End of the Affair helps to portray a struggling moral character. Bendrix is another perfect example of an antihero. He even admits his own mediocrity when he says, “My words were overcharged. I could detect their insincerity” (19). Everything about Bendrix is repugnant: he is a complainer, a hypocrite, a narcicist, a pessimist, a paramour, and an atheist (which has a bad connotation attached in society). In other words he is everything a hero should…

The character is often confused or conflicted with ambiguous morals, or character defects and eccentricities, and lacks courage, honesty, or grace. The antihero can be tough yet sympathetic or display vulnerable and weak traits. Specifically, the antihero often functions outside the mainstream and challenges it. Carol Peletier is the main character and a survivor in the walking dead She is introverted and soft-spoken, though often meek, and defenseless…

ruthless and kill each other without any respect for each other. The reader is able to connect more with Grendel by seeing that he does have feelings. Due to the reverse role of the hero figure, Grendel is not exactly a hero, but is considered an antihero. For instance, in the story, Grendel is trapped in a tree being attacked by the humans for a miscommunication. Grendel says, “I shrieked at them, trying to scare them…

In a manner of speaking, the novel circulates around a kind of rebel-victim antihero whose sole purpose in life is to save his skin/neck in various successive attempts to evade the brutal atrocities and incongruities of a self-centered regime whose military commanders are in a constant pursuance to enslave him and victimize his…

taken. By looking at the surface of Macbeth, one can see that it is about a man, Macbeth, who is told a prophecy about his future: he will become king. Macbeth believes the only way for him to become king is to kill the existing king, Duncan, and claim the throne for himself. Macbeth is a tragedy, therefore it is not hard to guess that this play ends in Macbeth’s death as a result of his flaws. An example that would just scratch the surface of this play would be when the witches chant, “All…

for more than 75 years and has received many awards for her efforts. I think she would be very fun to have at a dinner party. I would love to hear stories of her past and how she feels about her life. My second choice is Deadpool. He is a Marvel antihero. He is disfigured and…

Justice, represented by Marge, prevails at the end of Fargo. Marge has her own agency as she is the chief of police in her home town of Brainerd, Minnesota. Her position as a woman in power is challenged by the film’s antihero, Jerry (William H. Macy). The screwball antihero is generally characterized by his leisurely lifestyle, childishness, and basic frustration, usually with the relationships he has with women (Renzi 9). While Jerry is highly stressed throughout the film, he never works hard…

thoughts. Blanche is able to keep her thoughts together, but “ critic Anca Vlasopolos interprets Blanche’s downfall as a demonstration of William’s sympathy for her circumstances and a condemnation of the society that destroys her” (Blanche Dubois An Antihero). Blanche herself says that she doesn’t want realism she wants magic,that shows forth in her character’s personality and her standard of living. Blanche is meant to be portrayed as a woman of fancy living, coming from a family of riches…

of [the antihero’s] transformation and reemergence as someone more than he once was, the ability to overcome” (Decker et al. xix). Decker et al. thus describe the antihero as a character who follows a typical hero’s journey, just through crude and violent means (Decker et al. xix). This then relates to Shafer and Raney’s study on antihero narratives where they found that viewers form story schemas, or “mental representations containing expectations about how a narrative is internally structured…

Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are both romantic stories one story is very gothic while the other is a traditional romantic story. “The Black Cat” displays many aspects of gothic romanticism including; a gloomy setting, using feeling over reason, and an antihero. An important aspect of setting in “The Black Cat” is the cellar. “One day she accompanied me, upon some household errand, into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit” (Poe 4). It is in this place that the…