Anti-heroic Journey and the Crisis in Masculinity brought about by the Modern Age What is an Anti-hero or anti-heroine? An anti-hero is a central character in a story‚ movie‚ or drama that lacks conventional heroic attributes. The anti-hero is often compared to‚ and probably derived from‚ the tragic hero‚ which can be traced back to the popular stage dramas of ancient Greece. The tragic hero is an archetypal hero with one major‚ or fatal‚ flaw that leads to his downfall‚ destruction‚ and usually
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ACE OF SPADES Gear up! The management ultimatum ‘The Trump Card’ is back with a bang. No clichéd theories‚ No utopian ideas and No Google searches can bail you out. The law of the jungle prevails in the battle-field. Stead your way through this battle of challenges and become the ultimate warrior to question quintessence. EVENT DESCRIPTION The flagship event of IMT Ghaziabad‚ ACE OF SPADES‚ is one of its kinds where the participants have to survive through a rigorous timeline extending
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“When considering the subject matter of many of Pushkin’s writings one is struck by the fact that certain intellectual demands are made on the reader‚ “ and they become apart of a character’s flaws and struggles (Fennell 386). In the “The Queen Of Spades”‚ Hermann finds trouble managing to keep his sanity while searching for a the magic three words‚ and through him we witness the deterioration of man that was once stable. Caryl Emerson‚ a Slavic language and literature professor at Princeton University
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Pushkin’s "in his book " The Queen of Spades" is full of confidence‚ self assumed‚ master of his act. In my personal opinion‚ the story has strong romantic overtones although one could argue in favor of the story tendencies of realism brought into the story by Pushkin. It is critical to romantic work of arts and literature and no solid conclusion on the matter can be made. Pushkin undermines his interpretation by revealing in his hero a persistent ambivalence between pursuit of the old woman’s secret
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An anti-hero is a literary concept with long tradition. The idea of an antithesis to an anti-hero began its first appear in literature as early as in the Greek novel Don Quixote‚ but the bloom of a modern time anti-hero can be traced back to the period of Romanticism. Through the view of an anti-hero‚ we are ultimately challenged to look at ourselves and our contemporary world and recognise the complexity of human condition. In Clockwork Orange and Unforgiven‚ the dichotomist relationship between
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Wade Evans Instructor Reynolds English 300 19 November 2012 A New Type of Hero: The Role of the Anti-Hero in Contemporary Literature and Film On July 20‚ 2012‚ a mass shooting occurred at a Cinemark in Aurora‚ Colorado‚ during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. A gunman‚ known as James Holmes‚ dressed in tactical clothing‚ set off tear gas grenades‚ and shot into the audience with multiple firearms‚ killing twelve people and injuring fifty-eight others. This was the highest
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What an Anti-Hero is from Joseph Heller’s perspective in Catch-22 The word hero is used a lot during this day and age. The problem is people do not understand what that word means anymore. Sometimes most people in life are closer to an anti-hero than a hero. There are degrees of anti-heroes in the world. One of them is the good anti-hero. There are many examples in the world‚ but most of them come from television. According to Alston‚ Nathan Ford from the TV show Leverage is considered an anti-hero
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Protagonist of the story‚ Samuel Spade‚ is a very mysterious man who trusts only himself. The problems he may encounter tend to get done without the help of higher authorities (police) in his life‚ Spade‚ works only for Spade. Characterized by devilish qualities throughout the book‚ Samuel is associated with the term “blonde Satan” (3)‚ implying that he is comparable to the devil. He wants to outsmart everyone and win this “game” that is going on between him and Gutman. His potential love interest
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Essay on Sam Houston HIST 1301 April 8‚ 2013 A Legendary Man After reading the book “Sam Houston and the American Southwest”‚ I have learned Sam Houston’s life experience and his great contribution to the development of Texas. It is him to make the Texas became independent from Mexico and refuse to be withdrew from the federal government. He was a congressman‚ senator‚ governor‚ president of the Republic of Texas and a hero. From his stories‚ in my view‚ he is a legendary and controversial figure
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heroes are not just wholesome‚ good willing and lovable rogues but also prickly anti-heroes. Travis Bickle is solitary‚ disenfranchised and even homicidal. His power has been stripped away from him and he’s taking a violently socially unacceptable route to get it back with rage and murder. But those are very real urges. Urges that are mostly supressed by functional members of our modern society but identifying with an anti-hero provides us with an acceptable outlet to express these dark desires and live
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