The myth evokes the human condition as whole

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Myth, the human condition, whole, hero, collective identity, society

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The myth evokes the human condition as whole. His story is transmitted firstly orally and often incarnated by a hero, a place or a community. Question the myth is taking an interest to the heroes and stories that underpin a collective identity and memory.. The hero can be a fictive or a real character that marked the tradition, history or daily life. Looking for examples to follow, individual or collective identity, the society creates its own hero, incarnations of the values and concerns of an epoch. So we may wonder for what purpose precisely a society create myth and heroes?

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[...] The films Bonnie and Clyde and Into The Wild are some of evidential example. The myth o powerful means of influence Myth or political heroes are used to embody an ideology, reinforce values thwart an existing problem. Thus Arthurian legend and its various versions over the centuries was made to meet the needs of every age. The men and representatives of the order and the law had replaced the gangsters in American cinema and thus showed that the political will to provide the nation politically correct heroes and demonize public enemy to avoid that they become dangerously popular. [...]

[...] Finally myths are reinterpreted post or explain to rewrite history. For example the case of Abraham Lincoln: A life rewritten to coincide with the needs of the time; there are some former slaves autobiographies and especially BT Washington, moderate story of a freed slave. The universality of myth helps to highlight the particular way in which each culture performer the human experience and create new works in order to express it. Each ages borrows some myths and reinvents or creates new ones, firstly in order to create social cohesion. [...]

[...] But it's now undisputable that inequalities are still growing and the weight of social determinism is now too pregnant. Besides the American way of life , widely disseminated through advertising, the share of music such as jazz and rock roll, or Hollywood and films, like with Hitchcock for example, or industries with Coca Cola which is the imperialist icon of American life. There is also the idea of a hero like everybody such as firefighters and police officers, around which crystallizes the Patriotic Union of the entire nation against terrorism for example. [...]

[...] The myth evokes the human condition as whole The myth evokes the human condition as whole. His story is transmitted firstly orally and often incarnated by a hero, a place or a community. Question the myth is taking an interest to the heroes and stories that underpin a collective identity and memory . The hero can be a fictive or a real character that marked the tradition, history or daily life. Looking for examples to follow, individual or collective identity, the society creates its own hero, incarnations of the values and concerns of an epoch. [...]