The Hero: "Often, for undaunted courage, fate spares the man it has not already marked."
Beowulf
In literature the P.O.V. is usually through the Hero. The hero longs for an ordinary life with their loved ones, but early in the story that opportunity is ripped away from them. Heroes are focused, determined, disciplined, courageous, and hard headed. The heroes biggest fear is to lose. They are biggest sore loser you will ever meet; they will never give up. A shadowed hero can turn into their greatest enemy. Arrogant, ruthless, lukewarm, and unable to accept help from others.
“Ramblin’ Man” by The Allaman Brothers Band is the hero that cannot settle down for fear of being defeated.
“Brave” by Sara Bareilles represents that the hero will
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They don’t want to be concerned with the past, or future. They take the world for how it is, and realizes their life is a joke. They try to make others see the same with quips, and commentary through the story. A questionable existence is what a jester fears, they don’t like the “ifs” and “buts” of life. A shadowed jester is more subject to impulse control issues, and using humor as a shield to hide their depression, and uncertainty. The shadowed jester can become the epitome of self-indulgence, even if it becomes detrimental to their health.
“Life is for the living” by Passenger is the most innocent version of the jester enjoying the things around them instead of dealing with strife. “Happy” by Pharrell is one of the jester’s main goals in life. “Mad Hatter” by Melanie Martinez shows the jester uninhibited and okay with the fact everyone thinks he’s
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“Living in the moment” by Jason Mraz is the jester trying to get others to see that the worry free life is the way to go. “Get it while you can” by Janis Joplin is to represent the self indulgent nature of a shad “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails is the shadowed jester’s innermost thoughts on being useless to most people jester.
The Everyman: “Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today.”
Bilbo Baggins “The Hobbit.” The everyman is the poster child of realism. Usually suffering from a hard past the everyman wants love, acceptance, and comfort. Down to earth, hardworking, and compassionate, the everyman thrives in a group. Their biggest fear is to be an outcast. Their shadow side is bogged down with negativity, dependency, and self-pity. Unfortunately, the shadowed Everyman will also take a lot of abuse to stay within a group after being alone for so long. “Young and Menace” by Fall Out Boy is the everyman who is reminiscing about their past. “48 hours” by The Clash represents how hardworking the everyman is no matter how many times he gets stepped
There are a lot of songs to choose form when there is songs that break down norms and one that reinforce some. There are songs that mean nothing. Great songs always have a hidden mean behind them even if when listen to them we do not know what they are.
Bruce Springsteen once wrote in his song “Spirit In The Night” does “anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake?” T. Coraghessan Boyle referenced this Springsteen song in his short story “Greasy Lake.” Unlike the song which is supposed to be about people having a fun and rebellious night, Boyle turns Springsteen’s lyrics into dark and painful memories. The story was about the narrator, who remained unnamed throughout the entirety of it, and his friends Digby and Jeff who went to hang out at Greasy Lake. They lived in a time where it was “good to be bad” and they did not care about anything in the world. These characters did whatever they wanted, and their actions did have consequences. Throughout the story, the narrator’s personal growth was seen with how he viewed the
Idolized for their courage and noble qualities, a hero achieves superlative success by utilizing their strength and intellect to battle against their greatest challenge. Typically, heroes bask in the glory of their fame and triumph, admired by those throughout society, but realistically, not all heroes live happily ever after. As demonstrated through the epic poem, Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel, and Sophocles’ tragic play, Oedipus, abridged by Nick Bartel, there comes a time for one’s downfall, usually provoked by an illogical decision or characteristic flaw. Their misfortunes arrived as a result of a free choice gone awry, not because it their fate that doomed their lives, proving that heroes are just like any commoner who experiences
“The good times of today are the sad quotes of tomorrow” by (Bob marley) at brainqoutes.com. Paul’s mom and dad had to move from Texas to a new state named Florida. Before that happened Paul saw things that anyone else couldn't so he kept having visions that erik his brother was trying to kill him. His mom thought that it was just his vision because he couldn’t see very well. So mom let it fly and told blamed his visions on paul’s eyesight and paul got upset because nobody would listen to paul and if they did they wouldn’t believe paul all they would do was blame it on his eyesight. so paul got upset and he wasn’t very happy with his mom at the moment. After that, Mom calls the fire department. The reason why she did that is because she thought the house was on fire. The fire department came and they told paul and his mom that it was the muck fires and that they would never stop burning.
The subway passengers would not take a stand against an injustice right before their eyes. Injustices were in their lives everyday and what was another one? The subway passengers seemed to be desensitized toward the pain. Clay lived out the lyrics in Bessie Smiths song, Downhearted Blues,“Trouble, Trouble, I’ve had it all my days. It seems that trouble’s going to follow me to my grave,” (Bessie Smith, Downhearted
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.”
Many of the heroes possess similar tragic downfalls. Pride is usually the main characteristic that brings so many tragic heroes down. Pride was a main downfall that most heroes started with, and later, throughout the tragic, collected more. A combination of all of these cause the hero to eventually succumb to his final ending. Usually, t...
...not theirs to fight. It is essential that the Tragic Hero accepts his necessary doom. It completes the hero. “I know my hour is come...Farewell to thee...I shall have glory by this losing day” (205).
And he’s your thrill sergeant. Gonna keep you on your toes, cause Uncle Jam wants you, To do what you’re supposed to do, and join his army! The playfulness in this song can express the point but at the same time people can have a fun time doing it as well. This specific song came out in the mid-seventies but still is a prime example of how Parliament Funkadelic played of the Black Revolution and appealed to Popular Culture.
In today’s society, people are taught to conform to the masses in order to fit in; however, it is imperative that one’s individuality is maintained, as it preserves their identity and encourages uniqueness. For example, in the song, “Outside of a Small Circle of Friends”, Phil Ochs discusses the social norm where people are too afraid to stand out, often times, leading them to pay little to no attention to the wellbeing of others. Instead of adhering to their own judgment and moral values, the person in the song continues to abide by the notions of the rest of the group. In addition, in “The Dying Girl that No One Helped”, Loudon Wainright describes the brutal murder of a young 28 year old women, while over 38 of
The relevance of the song was portraying that using drugs and alcohol will help you escape life situations. Regardless of how hard or tough it is. All you need to do is to get drunk or get high, than your problems will flush away. But the video don’t explain the reality of the outcome of how drugs and alcohol will or could affect your lifestyle and how it could lead you to lose your job, family and life. All it shows is the fun side of being intoxicated. Which, it raises a big flag on kids or teens that do have access to the media like the
“A man cannot become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” – Aristotle, poetics
It was played over and over in the car when I was a kid. Picture a nine year old singing along to Poison, Motley Crüe, and ACDC in the backseat, knowing every word一that was me. Everyone, I’d like to think, has questioned the good in other people at some point in their life. Even at nine years old, I had times where I had to prepare and deal with really unfair situations. I started to realize there is a lot of bad in this world and didn’t understand why. I had always sang the songs to sing along but when I started to listen to the lyrics instead of just singing them, I heard the message of adversity. I sort of used it as advice and reassurance that it wasn’t just me, but above all that, I looked at it almost as if Bret, Rikki, C. C., and Bobby had my back through
“This next song is about music. It’s about my life, it’s about your life. It’s about anybody who’s ever had a bad day and then put on their favourite song and you crank it up all th...
...s are saying that he needed pleasure or company of another, but did not receive it and was in pain. This line of the song shows that instead of pleasure there is no pleasure and there is numbness and the absence of pleasure. From the reading on Epicurus his theory he would believe that you do not go looking for pleasure because pain will soon follow after, and there might not even be pleasure it might just lead to pain without the pleasure.