Task 10

The influence of a Hero

From the start of the civilisation, the human kind wanted to share the “knowledge”. The knowledge has many forms, and the form I am interested in is the “stories”. The stories or myths, in many cases, are creating a Hero (a Hero of power, of love, of terror, of good, e.t.c.). The origin of each Hero is true in one point (the existence of the character) and false in others (the level of the power, of size, of strength, e.t.c.), and some times are all true or all lie. Now we have many stories, a lot of Heroes, and we have massive information (TV, Internet, Books, Magazines, newspapers e.t.c.). Eventually, the stories have funs and believers and we all have some favourite Heroes from books, movies, TV, comics [ Here are some of mine: wolverine, silver surfer, songogu (DragonBall), Naruto, Elric of Melniboné (Moorcock, Michael), Drizzt Do’urden (R. a. Salvatore), Araqorn - Legolas - Gandalf (The lord of the rings), William Wallace / Braveheart.].

Why we love these heroes? Why we wish every time we are across of them to be like them? Why we pain when they in pain? Maybe because we let our selves to identification, to be “them”, and whatever they express and whatever we might want them to express (like power, beauty, love, hate, justice, crime e.t.c.). To manipulate our mind, heroes generally are appeared to be smart in the stories with a lot of weaknesses which is something that make them more approachable and real , and not necessarily a combine of a fashion model, a very good body and high IQ; although there are these heroes too. But the story makes the Hero, our Hero, because good stories have the main power to manipulate us. The stories aren’t ordinary and they aim to “break” our routine (such as to live a big adventure, a big love, a different world e.t.c.). So, we have a good story, we have a Hero and to complete the manipulation, the Hero must act like a part of the story and not the centre of the story, because acting is very important too.

What stories are irresistible? Probably fantasy stories, comedy, war, love, are all quite irresistible. There are so many stories which aren’t irresistible but at the same time there are many of them which are. So, I can’t say that a type of the story, lets say fantasy stories are always good.