The Heroic Heroes In The Writer's Journey

A hero is a person who is brave, acts to protect the population, and is willing to sacrifice his own life for others. In The Wrath of Khan (1982), Spock talks about how the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few and Captain Kirk answers, “Or the one.” This defines a hero and their unselfishness. Christopher Vogler, a story consultant for Hollywood, states in his book The Writer’s Journey, “In the process of becoming complete, heroes face internal guardians, monsters, and helpers.” Most heroes use this process to complete their quest or journey. There are many different types of heroes and several ways they are classified; however, the strongest divisions fall into three groups of distant categories: The Classic Hero, The Everyman …show more content…
These heroes have courage, intelligence, power, and faithfulness. These heroes are the best and the audience hopes they will succeed. Sometimes they are too good, and when they succeed it does not surprise the audience. To keep the audience intrigued, the heroes encounter failure or death through their journey. These heroes are orphans or have lost all of their family, and this motivates them to defeat the evil in the world. These heroes include Captain America, Spiderman and Batman. They not only help others, but help themselves during the journey. Classic heroes are self-motivated and eager to service the human race without being asked. These heroes have a firm grasp of goodness and justice to compel them to save the world, even if it is going against their friends and family. These heroes have also flaws which allow them to reach their success of the mission by overcoming these …show more content…
Anti-Heroes represent what all audiences dislike: malice, weakness, selfishness, and deceitfulness. They are the opposite of the Classic and Everyman hero, a villain, and sometimes these villains turn to the good side. Because of this, anti-heroes are almost always the audience’s favorite character. The audience enjoys these heroes since they have the most room to develop as characters. The audience looks forward to the bad guy and will sometimes cheer for him. Both from the Showtime Series Dexter and Gollum from the Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien are examples of the Anti-Heroes. Dexter works for the Miami Police Department, and he is a strong family man. He also murders criminals, because he thinks only guilty people need to die. He is not killing to reduce crime, only to feed his pleasure in killing. At the same time he is trying to redeem himself, which allows the audience to continue to following his character. Gollum is both villain and hero and ends up destroying the ring and falling to his death in Mount Doom. The struggles, his character faces are an example of the struggles the audience may go through in their normal lives when faced with the same choices between good or evil. Christopher Vogler states “These are flawed Heroes who never overcome their inner demons being brought down by them and destroyed” and is true with these

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