Characteristics Of Hercules

Being a hero can have many meaning to a lot of to people, but what really defines a hero? The honorable deeds or the supernatural characteristics? Or a special talent that stands out above the rest. Heroes aren’t supposed to be judged by their mistakes, they should get recognized by their consistency of good work. Hercules has made some mistakes, but that should not determine that he is not a hero or a horrible person. Everyone makes mistakes and it is not always the person who did the action fault. He killed his wife and children because Hera was jealous of Hercules. She put him under a curse or spell to make him go crazy or insane which did not end well. He seeks for forgiveness and does whatever it takes to for him not to pay for the crime

Hercules made a huge mistake and gives up his well-being to make up for it. Every labor he had to do was an obstacle to Hercules because he had to go out of his way and almost getting kill in almost every labor. He did all that just to get forgiveness. The tenth labor seemed to be really tricky as well because there were many things that interrupted him from completing the deed easily. He had to get cattle from a beast called Geryon who had a two-headed dog protecting his cattle: “When he arrived on the island he fought and killed the two-headed dog and began his escape with the cattle, but Geryon arrived and attacked him. Hercules ended up killing Geryon with his arrows.” (). That wasn’t all, he had to bring the cattle back to Greece. Hercules had to fight other rulers and had to take whatever Hera sent his way. The cattle dispersed and Hercules had to reassemble them and take them back to Greece. Hercules at this point had gone through a lot and overcame every interference. He was sure of what he wanted, to get rid of his sins and become a great person to people.

Being a hero does not mean you always have to do well or make any mistakes, because everyone makes mistakes. No one is perfect in any way. Hercules was a great hero to many people and wasn’t trying to harm anyone while completing his labors. He was seeking forgiveness from the gods, goddess, and people. He wanted to be cleared from his horrible sin that was not completely his from, it was caused by Hera the jealous wife of Zeus. Hercules is a hero and a great one