Hero Theses Samples For Students

The 2000 M. Night Shyamalan film Unbreakable tells the story of David Dunne (Bruce Willis), an ordinary man who begins a journey of self-discovery after he learns that he is the sole, unharmed survivor of a devastating train crash. According to Joseph Campbell, the hero's journey, or monomyth, tells the same fundamental story: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man" (Campbell. 23). This essay will ...

Never judge culture by one man and never judge a man by popular culture.

- Anonymous

Abstract

In “The Death of the Author,” structuralist thinker Roland Barthes suggested the notion of the author as a distinct identity in the creation and interpretation of a text was a thing of the past. Instead, he preferred the use of the word “scriptor” to refer to the person writing or typing a work for the first time. The ideas in the scriptor's mind would have to travel through his or her semiotic filters to make it to the paper – those filters take the ideas and shape them – for ...

The Hero David:

Donatello's Bronze David and Michelangelo's Marble David

Created an estimated seventy years apart, Donatello and Michelangelo were commissioned to sculpt images of the hero David. While both became important cultural symbols of Florence in the Renaissance, they differ in symbolism and presentation.
Considered to be the first free-standing nude statue since Antiquity, Donatello was commissioned to create a sculpture of the Hero David by the patriarch of the powerful Medici family, Cosimo de'Medici. Placed in the Medici's Palazzo courtyard in Florence, the exact date of completion is not known, but the five foot bronze statute is estimated to have ...

This paper proposes to delineate the characteristics of Holden Caulfield, the adolescent protagonist hero of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and illuminate the reasons as to why this prototype of brooding adolescence, displaying a rather uber-cool style of disaffection, disenchantment and disillusionment became an indispensable figure of interest, in literary circles as well as popular culture. The paper seeks to take issue with the wider dimensions attached to the ‘incapacitation and debilitation’ Holden is often accused of and address Salinger’s vision behind etching Caulfield precisely the way he is. The paper also wishes to foreground the ...

About the Movie “Leon: The Professional."

The movie “Leon: The Professional” was released in 1994. It was the French crime thriller which was later dubbed in the English language. The story revolves around two characters ‘Leon’ a hitman and a 12 years old young girl ‘Mathilda’ who was a depressed child. The characters depict situations where they had gone through different mental stages. This paper analyzes ‘Leon’ and ‘Mathilda’ human behaviors in the film and relates them to psychoanalytical theories developed by theorists, i.e., Jung and Freud.

Describing the behavior of Movie Characters: Leon & Mathilda

In this film, the character of Leon was played by Jean Reno, who was a brutal hitman. Natalie ...

The superhero comic book genre, as it has existed for the past few decades, is rife with a variety of stories, many of which involve virtuous heroes who stand for Truth, Justice and the American Way while saving innocent children from a burning building while non-lethally taking down some robbers. However, as comic book audiences have matured, comic books themselves have matured with them, leading to characters that are far more unscrupulous and ambiguous in their morality.
Central to this line of morally-grey antiheroes is Marvel Comics’ the Punisher (aka Frank Castle), a man with no superpowers – just an arsenal of ...

This is a question that films like Raging Bull and The Godfather Part 1 attempt to answer. These films feature "bad" boys who resort to socially unapproved and criminal behavior and still seem to get away with it. In a world where societies make the rules, perhaps their appeal lies in their ability to bend and break those rules. Nevertheless, there are reasons why they seem so untouchable—reasons that have to do with their immediate context, their thinking and their values. This paper will attempt to analyze those reasons.
The film Raging Bull (1980) is arguably a film about lust, ...

Humanism is stated as a philosophy. The focus of this philosophy has been on human means to understand human reality. This philosophy is of science and reason in the knowledge pursuit. Followers of this philosophy reject arbitrary revelation, authority, faith and modified state of consciousness. It is also referred as a philosophy of concern and imagination. It is based on realistic beliefs and associated with those humans who love the life. People following this theory take the blame of the lives of other humans. Mulk Raj Anand provides a clear view of the philosophy. He defines it as a system of thinking in ...

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is the most well-known story by one of the renowned humorists in the United States, James Thurber. When the story was published, readers began to acknowledge and recognize Walter Mitty as an archetypal American figure. Walter Mitty has become a renowned character in American fiction as well. No doubt, the main reason that “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” became so popular was because Thurber made it possible for readers to identify with Mitty since most people often find their lives disappointing and ordinary, and so they enter a more interesting world by using daydreams. ...