Post 10: How Heroes Are Like Us.

How are heroes like us? Well like the characters in tragedies Aristotle spoke about, Bad things happen to good people. I will once again reference Batman. Batman started off as the young boy named Bruce Wayne, but one fateful night at an opera his parents where shot in the alley. Bruce put
all the blame on himself because if it wasn't for him being scared during the opera they wouldn't have died. So with this guilt he used his fears to be his strengths, and his guilt to be his motivation. This is the same with many classical heroes. Although in stories such as Oedipus his motivation turned into his guilt. Trying to find the killer was his motivation and the truth of it being him became his guilt.

But how are they like us? Well in stories like Batman he resembles mortality. He has no powers, he is just a man. His only thing that would be considered close to a power would be his strength, and that was through training not some radiation beam. So he represents how a normal man can be a hero.