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Myths and Heroes
I’m going to talk about the notion of myths and heroes. To start with, I would like to give a definition of this notion: On the one hand, a myth represents a lie, something that is not true, and on the other hand, a myth is a legend, or a tale, which tells the story of heroes, extraordinary figures. Heroes are seen as persons who enable progress, because they fight for good causes, and give their own life to achieve their goal.
So, we may wonder, what is the link between a myth and a hero?
I will concentrate on two types of links: a hero can create his own myth, his own legend by doing something great and good, but a hero can also break a myth, a lie to aware people.
In the early twentieth century in England, women were fighting for their rights. We will focus on the action taken by Emmeline Pankhurst, a leading British activist. In 1889, she founded the Women’s Franchise League in London to fight for allow married women to vote in local elections. Later, she became member of the WPSU, a militant organization, with her members called “suffragettes”, and as many of them, she was often arrested and went on hunger strike herself. The beginning of the First World War put an end to this period of change, but in 1918, the government allowed women over 30 to vote. Nowadays, Emmeline Pankhurst is seen as a heroin, because she fought for a great cause, and helped to grant women’s rights, as the right to vote.
In a completely different context, heroes try to make the good not by fighting for a cause, but by educating people, to help them to tell the difference between dreams and reality, or between artificial and real needs.
Fareed Zakaria wrote an article untitled “How to restore the American Dream” in which he explores this multi-faceted dream. He explains that when he was a young Indian boy, in the Seventies, America seemed dazzling, with huge open spaces and beautiful skyscrapers, through series like Dallas. A few years later, when he came in United States to study, he visited his friends’ hometowns, and he tells he was astonished of the spacious suburban houses people could afford, whenever they had modest jobs. As Zakaria said, the real American Dream of those post-war years was not fancy cars or shining cities, but this middle-class optimism, this sunny attitude people had toward life.
In USA, life seems peaceful and especially in the suburbs, but the American way to educate is sometimes based on wrong values. In “The mask you live in”, a 2015 documentary film dealing with masculinity, we have an idea of how boys are raised. From birth, they are told to be tough, not to cry because being sensitive is seen as being a coward, a weak. For centuries, in Americans’ minds, respect was close to violence, and today, boys think they have to be violent to be respected. This culture doesn’t value relationships and feelings, so boys feel insecure, and some of them commit suicide every year.
Finally, to conclude with the notion Myths and Heroes, we can say Emmeline Pankhurst created her myth, the myth of the “suffragette”: an independent woman who wanted gender equality and did anything she can to make it, even by risking her own life. Fareed Zakaria broke the myth of the American Dream to create a real hope based on facts, and producers of “The mask you live in” explained why the myth of the tough man is destructive to boys, and shown that promoting sensitiveness, feelings and empathy is what American society needs to raise children.
Merci d'avance :)
Myths and Heroes
I’m going to talk about the notion of myths and heroes. To start with, I would like to give a definition of this notion: On the one hand, a myth represents a lie, something that is not true, and on the other hand, a myth is a legend, or a tale, which tells the story of heroes, extraordinary figures. Heroes are seen as persons who enable progress, because they fight for good causes, and give their own life to achieve their goal.
So, we may wonder, what is the link between a myth and a hero?
I will concentrate on two types of links: a hero can create his own myth, his own legend by doing something great and good, but a hero can also break a myth, a lie to aware people.
In the early twentieth century in England, women were fighting for their rights. We will focus on the action taken by Emmeline Pankhurst, a leading British activist. In 1889, she founded the Women’s Franchise League in London to fight for allow married women to vote in local elections. Later, she became member of the WPSU, a militant organization, with her members called “suffragettes”, and as many of them, she was often arrested and went on hunger strike herself. The beginning of the First World War put an end to this period of change, but in 1918, the government allowed women over 30 to vote. Nowadays, Emmeline Pankhurst is seen as a heroin, because she fought for a great cause, and helped to grant women’s rights, as the right to vote.
In a completely different context, heroes try to make the good not by fighting for a cause, but by educating people, to help them to tell the difference between dreams and reality, or between artificial and real needs.
Fareed Zakaria wrote an article untitled “How to restore the American Dream” in which he explores this multi-faceted dream. He explains that when he was a young Indian boy, in the Seventies, America seemed dazzling, with huge open spaces and beautiful skyscrapers, through series like Dallas. A few years later, when he came in United States to study, he visited his friends’ hometowns, and he tells he was astonished of the spacious suburban houses people could afford, whenever they had modest jobs. As Zakaria said, the real American Dream of those post-war years was not fancy cars or shining cities, but this middle-class optimism, this sunny attitude people had toward life.
In USA, life seems peaceful and especially in the suburbs, but the American way to educate is sometimes based on wrong values. In “The mask you live in”, a 2015 documentary film dealing with masculinity, we have an idea of how boys are raised. From birth, they are told to be tough, not to cry because being sensitive is seen as being a coward, a weak. For centuries, in Americans’ minds, respect was close to violence, and today, boys think they have to be violent to be respected. This culture doesn’t value relationships and feelings, so boys feel insecure, and some of them commit suicide every year.
Finally, to conclude with the notion Myths and Heroes, we can say Emmeline Pankhurst created her myth, the myth of the “suffragette”: an independent woman who wanted gender equality and did anything she can to make it, even by risking her own life. Fareed Zakaria broke the myth of the American Dream to create a real hope based on facts, and producers of “The mask you live in” explained why the myth of the tough man is destructive to boys, and shown that promoting sensitiveness, feelings and empathy is what American society needs to raise children.
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Myths and Heroes
I’m going to talk about the notion of myths and heroes. To start with, I would like to give a definition of this notion: On the one hand, a myth represents a lie, something that is not true, and on the other hand, a myth is a legend, or a tale, which tells the story of heroes, extraordinary figures. Heroes are seen as persons who enable progress, because they fight for good causes, and give their own life to achieve their goal.
So, we may wonder, what is the link between a myth and a hero?
I will concentrate on two types of links: a hero can create his own myth, his own legend by doing something great and good, but a hero can also break a myth, a lie to aware people. In the early twentieth century in England, women were fighting for their rights. We will focus on the action taken by Emmeline Pankhurst, a leading British activist. In 1889, she founded the Women’s Franchise League in London to fight for allowing married women to vote in local elections. Later, she became a member of the WPSU, a militant organization, with her members called “suffragettes”, and as many of them, she was often arrested and went on hunger strike herself. The beginning of the First World War puts an end to this period of change, but in 1918, the government allowed women over 30 to vote. Nowadays, Emmeline Pankhurst is seen as a heroine, because she fought for a great cause, and helped to grant women’s rights, as the right to vote.
In a completely different context, the heroes try to make the good, not by fighting for a cause, but by educating people, to help them to tell the difference between dreams and reality, or between artificial and real needs.
Fareed Zakaria wrote an article entitled “How to restore the American Dream” in which he explores this multi-faceted dream. He explains that when he was a young Indian boy, in the Seventies, America seemed dazzling, with huge open spaces and beautiful skyscrapers, through series like Dallas. A few years later, when he came to the United States to study, he visited his friends’ hometowns, and he says he was astonished of the spacious suburban houses people could afford, whenever they had modest jobs. As Zakaria said, the real American Dream of those post-war years was not fancy cars or shining cities, but this middle-class optimism, this sunny attitude people had toward life.
In the USA, life seems peaceful and especially in the suburbs, but the American way to educate is sometimes based on wrong values. In “The mask you live in”, a 2015 documentary film dealing with masculinity, we have an idea of how boys are raised. From birth, they are told to be tough, not to cry because being sensitive is seen as being a coward, a week. For centuries, in Americans’ minds, respect was close to violence, and today, the boys think they have to be violent to be respected. This culture doesn’t value relationships and feelings, so boys feel insecure, and some of them commit suicide every year.
Finally, to conclude with the notion Myths and Heroes, we can say Emmeline Pankhurst created her myth, the myth of the “suffragette”: an independent woman who wanted gender equality and did anything she can to make it, even by risking her own life. Fareed Zakaria broke the myth of the American Dream to create a real hope based on facts, and producers of “The mask you live in, ” explained why the myth of the tough man is destructive to boys, and shown that promoting sensitiveness, feelings and empathy is what American society needs to raise children.