Heroes and Villains
Hercules, Jesus, James Bond, Luke Skywalker, Gandalf, Frodo, Harry Potter, Buffy Summers, Spiderman, Batman, Captain Kirk, Dr. Who, Darth Vader, Sauron, Voldemort, Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, the Daleks, the Borg. Almost anybody living in the developed West would be able to group these individuals into two camps: the heroes and the villains. However, what criteria they may use to do this is less clear.
Mike Alsford introduces us to a range of heroic and villainous archetypes on a journey through film, television, comic books, and literature. On the way, he addresses questions such as: What is a true hero? What is a true villain? Have we misunderstood these terms? What kind of societal values do our mythical heroes and villains represent? In trying to understand the extremes of hero and villain we are made more aware of our own ethical standards and given a space in which to explore contemporary concerns over notions of right and wrong, good and bad.
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Of course our day - to - day experience of the stranger and our encounters with
other persons are by no means as formal as the preceding comments tend to
imply . However , despite this formalism , which is sadly unavoidable in any
attempt at ...
Attempting to help people who do not want to be helped or , perhaps worse , do
not even recognise that they need help , is a serious business indeed . While we
may , as has been discussed earlier , weep at the self - destructive lifestyles of ...
... to the social contract – for whatever reason - and a wilful attempt at exploiting
the fact that the rest of society chooses to ... peace delegations , government
officials attempting to negotiate and even a dove of peace released in their
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