Myths and heroes

Myths and heroes :

Definitions :

A legendary story dealing with gods and heroes , explaining some natural phenomenon

It can also be a commonly false notion

A hero : a person admired for bravery, noble qualities

Since the creation of the world, civilizations have invented myths to account for the unexplained, whether it be human attributes or more intriguing questions such as life, death, love, youth

Myths seem to have a soothing role but they can be powerful too.

Can we live without myths and heroes ?

Firstly i will talk about myths in greek mythology dealing with differents themes love, eternal love and youth s

Secondly i will talk about the importance of these myths through the centuries.

Thirdly i will talk heroes, in the mind of people, heroes are fictious but in our world it exists real heroes who changed the world.

And finally i will talk about the myth of progress.

Firstly i will talk about myths in greek mythology

The myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, who speak about eternal and the 2 lovers killthemselves because they can’t live without the other.

Or the myth of Aphrodite and Adonis to explain the circle of life.

Or finally the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice : One day, Eurydice die because of a viper. Orpheus cannot live without his love, he plays plays music and begs the god Hades to give him Eurydice back, Hades agree but he say to Orpheus to don’t look back at his wife. But orpheus don’t respect that and his wife disappeared.

These myths have a great infulence on people over the centuries, they confirmed their beliefs. Let’s turn to my second point.

To speak about importance of these myths i will take some example.

In our society the question of eternal youth is very present , we can see it with all avertising, now it’s a selling argument, we put in the mind of people that they have and they can be younger, people today don’t want to make old.

An article written in the Observer in 2007 speak about eternal youth. More than a myth eternal youth can be real with the progress of technology and science. The article underlines the fact that life expectancy goes on rising and for that we found a lot of a means, extreme dieting, healthy acitivities, plastic surgery etc…

An other question remain in our society, is the question of love. In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by Shakespear in the 16th century. It tells the story of the Romeo and Juliet who are in love, but their love is impossible because thier families are ennemies. And today this problem still, for other resaons but it remain. In Asia and particularly in India, people cannot be married because the family are not comming from the same social caste. We can mention the movie Devdas for exemple. Myth also explain a social reality.

Sometimes progress is a myth, the myth of progress and a lot of people fought for this. We can consider these people like heroes

So thirdly let’s talk about these Heroes.

We speak eternal love and youth, but there is others social reality.

For example the discrimination of black people.

Rosa Parks contributed a lot at the end of this discrimination. She is a woman African American Which became an emblematic figure in the fight against Racial segregation To United States, which earned him the nickname "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement "On behalf of the American Congress. Rosa Parks later fought against racial segregation with Martin Luther King. She became famous by refusing to give up her place to a white passenger.

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