The Modern and Anti- Hero

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The Modern and Anti- Hero
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• Often an Everyman
• Has human weakness
• Caught in the ironies of the human condition
• Struggles for insight
• Believes in the necessity of action yet the
  moral impulsions (urge) that lead him to believe
  in action, also render him unfit for action.

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• Knows that traditionally the hero is required to
  act out the part of bravery, but he discovers
  that his predicament (task) requires courage.

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Bravery vs. Courage

• Bravery is the ability to confront pain, danger
  or attempts of intimidation without any feeling
  of fear. It is strength in character that allows
  a person to always be seemingly bigger than the
  crisis, whether he is indeed more powerful or is
  lesser than what he is tackled with.

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Bravery vs. Courage

• Courage, on the other hand, is the ability to
  undertake an overwhelming difficulty or pain
  despite the eminent and unavoidable presence of
  fear. More than a quality, it is a state of mind
  driven by a cause that makes the struggle all
  worth it. Unlike in the case of bravery, a person
  fueled by courage may feel inevitably small in
  the face of peril, pain or problems. The essence
  of courage is not the feeling of being certainly
  capable of overcoming whats one is faced with,
  but rather is the willful choice to fight
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• Knows that the hero can act with full powers only
  if he commands.
• For his followers and himself, an implicit belief
  in the meaningfulness of life is required .
• But the more he commits himself to the gestures
  of heroism, the more he is persuaded of the
  absurdity (meaninglessness) of existence.

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• Often begins with the expectation of changing the
  world. But after a time his central question
  becomes can I change myself?
• If the modern hero decides the world is beyond
  changing, he may try to create a hermetic
  (closed) world of his own.

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• Often continues to believe in the quest, only he
  is no longer persuaded that a quest is
  necessarily undertaken through public action.
• Discovers that he cannot be a hero, yet only
  through his readiness to face the consequences of
  this discovery can he salvage a portion of the
  heroic power.

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• Moves from the heroic deed to the heroism of
  consciousness (awareness), a heroism often
  available only in defeat.

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Antihero

• Main character of a story who is flawed in some
  way and often does not display admirable
  qualities
• does not follow common conceptions of heroism

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The Anti-Hero

• An Anti-Hero relates to a reader because the
  Anti-Hero displays more humanity than a regular
  hero.

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The Anti-Hero

• Instead of a standard tragic flaw an Anti-Hero
  may try to do what is right by using questionable
  means.

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Anti-Hero Traits

• Anti-Heroes can be obnoxious.

• Anti-Heroes can be pitiful.

• Anti-Heroes can be awkward.

• Anti-Heroes can be passive.

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Types of Anti-Hero

• Some Anti-Heroes may be unable to commit to
  traditional values of society.

This type of Anti-Hero distrusts conventional
society.
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Types of Anti-Hero

• Another type of Anti-Hero cannot get a break in
  life.

He/she will move from one disappointment to
another, their efforts always ending in failure.
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Below are some examples of anti-heroes from
comics, film, television, and literature.

• Batman (D.C. Comics)
• Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
• Conan the Barbarian (Conan the Barbarian novels
  and film)
• Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)
• Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
• Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
• Scarlett OHara (Gone with the Wind)
• Vito and Michael Corleone (The Godfather)
• Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
• Why are flawed main characters sometimes more
  likable than ones who are not?