Finally on the one hand Antigone could be described by the Greek word “mythos” that means fantasy, she lives in her own world and believes in “phusis”, everything that is natural (including of course burying her dead brother); On the other hand, Creon lives for the “logos”, the reason, what is right. He does not want to do anything outside the law because he is the one to install and impose the laws. Creon could remind us of a Sophoclean hero; nevertheless it is not as blatant as Antigone. He is also a very headstrong character, the fact that he is ready to kill his own niece proves his yearn and thirst for the applications of laws. The difference between both of them is that they aspire to two very different aspects of life; She wants respect and he wants power, we see that those two principles do not always agree with each other.
Various examples of an official hero include Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. These heroes or legends are comfortable in society and willing to undertake those public duties demanding personal sacrifices (Ray 380). That’s why political figures are some of the best official heroes. An official hero believes in the law and abides by it. An outlaw hero is the opposite, they know right from wrong, but don’t follow the law.
(Defiant attitude. )” (Akutagawa 31). In the end Tajomaru believes that although his fate is in the hands of the law he will prevail even in death by challenging the system. Like the bandit Robin Hood who became an English folk hero thru the belief that even men whom have done wrong can become clean through the resistance of corrupt men. Tajomaru also believes that Takehiro was a greedily corrupt man whom deserved death.
Another major difference between the samurai and the ninja are their codes of ethics in fighting. Samurais are guided by an ancient code of ethics and form of combat known as Bushido (Japanese sword fighting). They make sure to enforce certain rules in the form of combat. In contrast, ninjas do not follow any ethical code when they fight, so their fighting style is considered to be unorthodox in Japanese culture. In fact, the way ninjas fight is the complete opposite of the samurai.
In Hamlet, the violence was centered around strong emotion and remorse for the lost. With more than one sibling of a governing family competing for the same role, one of the family members is not going to get his way and resort to mad revenge, which brings around a different type of violence. This is what separates the Germanic tribal society violence from the violence of the Renaissance. There is a major difference in the violence of each text, but it serves as an outline for both stories. The attempts to sustain peace are different in more than one way, but also similar in comparison.
Dogs and Demons Alex Kerr’s Dogs and Demons Tales from the dark side of Japan presents the cultural malaise that Japan faced during the Lost Decade as well as providing a background for many of the problems plaguing Japan today. Within the title of the book the author presents one of the “solutions” that the Japanese government has come up with to deal with some of the issues regarding Japan’s economy. Dogs and Demons, comes from an ancient Chinese philosophical treatise Han Feizi. Within the Treatise the emperor asks a painter “what are the hardest and easiest things to depict?” The artist replied, “Dogs and horses are difficult, demons and goblins are easy.” Essentially, simple, unobtrusive things in our immediate environment- like dogs and horses are hard to get right, while anyone can draw monsters. Kerr states that Japan is suffering from a severe case of this “dogs and demons.” Not limiting itself to just one field, Japanese bureaucracy spent money on unneeded, costly monuments rather than confronting the long-term problems that have been plaguing Japan.
Although they differ vastly in their approach and their path to heroism, their common link is the will to protect those who are unable to defend themselves. Beowulf’s Norse lineage is of a proud, brawny people who pride themselves on physical strength and duty to their liege lord. When he hears that Grendel is terrorizing a poor, defenseless village, immediately he accepts the challenge of freeing them of the monstrous fiend as he seeks glory and fame among his people. In this fictional tale, Grendel is in fact a monster and is described as a direct descendent of Cain with an insatiable thirst for blood. Beowulf closely parallels the first of the thirteen warriors, Buliwyf, who leads a group of Norsemen and a reluctant Arab ambassador to defeat what is described as a monster very reminiscent, if not a full impersonation of Grendel.
A hero can be a role model for people and be loved by everyone. A hero's abilities must be employed for a good cause, usually the protection of the weak. Ray Bradbury’s novel entitled Fahrenheit 451 (1953) challenges the reader to rethink what it means to be a hero: even though Montag promotes and continues his thoughts and freewill and to make people to remember the past. Sometimes Montag behaves irrationally and even commits murder to achieve his goal. Unconventional hero through the character Guy Montag with following events Montage’s act very unorthodox.
In Erdrich's work, she displays the white people very critically by using quotes from the John Wayne movie she uses in her her poem, such as “It is / not over, this fight, not as long as you resist. / Everything we see belongs to us.” (Erdrich 12). This direct attack on the whites from the film gives a glimpse into how Erdrich feels that the white men are the sole reason that the Native American culture has almost been destroyed. She feels that the whites' greed and aggressive nature forced the destruction of the traditions and values that the Native American people once had. Alexie, on the other hand, feels that the blame falls more on the actual people of the new Native American generations becoming more like the white men on their own accord.
Code of honor is an aspect of human nature which governs people’s differentiation between right and wrong. In Harper Lee’s eye-opening novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee establishes how powerful a code of honor is in society, so much so that people will forgo intuition to adhere to their code. Many of the characters in the novel posses a certain code of honor that dictates both decisions and actions. Scout, under the influence of her father Atticus, lives by a very moral based code. In the previous scenes up to and throughout the Tom Robinson trial, Scout’s innocence and confusion about the racism and prejudice are solely based on her code.