Name: Shamara Biggs Instructor: Professor Chang Assignment: #3 Date: October 30th, 2017 1) What makes the person personified/comic character a villain? Dr. Doom is a villain because he is the deadliest scientist, and the second greatest sorcerer of black magic in the universe. At a young age, both of his parents were killed. His mother was killed and her soul was trapped by the demon Mephisto after she called on them to save her son's life. His father was killed by King Vladimir of Latveria because he couldn't cure his wife's cancer. His life goal was to avenge his father's death, save his mother and world domination. He avenged his father's death by his killing King Vladimir, imprisoned his son and take over Latveria and he saved his mother's soul from Mephisto. He is considered a villain because he wants to take over the world. However, unlike …show more content…
Don't be consumed with revenge. Ever since the explosion that scared Dr. Dooms face he had hated Reed Richards. On more occasions than one, he tries to defeat Richards and his team. Since he was so consumed with revenge and proving that he is smarter than Richards it delays his plans for world domination. 3) What lessons does this villain teach us for the future? Some of the lessons that Dr. Doom teach us for the future are: a. Always set goals to make progress. Doom had three goals in life, was to avenge his father's death, save his mother and world domination. Because he was determined and smart he had achieved his goals. b. Don't give up. Doom is a very determined super villain with extreme willpower. Once he set his mind to something that is all he focused on. No matter how many times he was defeated he came back more determined than ever and he will not stop until he gets what he wants. c. Strive to be the best. Doom is truly smart and he always wants to better himself. Every time doom was defeated he would always find a way to come back better than before. He always concoct innovative ways to defeat his
A villain is a person that poses a threat to the main character and Minor characters in the story. The villain in Nacho Libre (a fellow luchador champ named Ramses) is what the plot in the story revolves all around. Nacho is trying to raise money for the orphans and buy them some salads or something but Ramses is the person that stands in his way. But if you think about it Ramses weren’t there Nacho can’t win the money. Ramses is a key person in the movie, without Ramses Nacho would just be a sneezing cook at an orphanage with only Incarnasion to talk to and that guy who’s had diarrhea since Easters to make fun of and insult. (I think his name is Senor Ramon)
During the late nineteenth century, the agrarian movement evolved into a political force that energized American farmers to voice their political and economic grievances like never before. Although the movement essentially died after William Jennings Bryan's loss of the 1896 Presidential election, many of the reforms they fought for were eventually passed into law.
...round an obsessive character that becomes the reason for his avoidable demise, had he not obsessed over the story of the Headless Horseman.
Methods selected when handling adversity, each have the potential of resulting in disaster or downfall. Throughout the play The Tragedy of Macbeth, the uprising of adversity of often handled in various manners. By dealing with his own challenges, Macbeth transforms his handling of adversity from being cautious to thoughtless. However, challenging adversity is only one of the many ways in which adversity may lead to downfall. Whether adversity is challenged upon or handled in a variety of other methods, the possibility of resulting in calamity is always existent. If you were faced with adversity, would you choose to fight it? Or accept it as given to you?
himself to be a powerful man, has his life unravel before him as he loses
Determination, the strive to come out on top. The compulsion to reach your goal. For me, failure is not an option. Being adequate is not one either. You either have your game face on or you do not. There is no in between. My goal at the moment is to become a student at the Early College. From then on, I have multiple goals set up
smart man with a mission. 2.His mission was to succeed as a criminal in a
In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth is a classic example of a tragic hero who is constantly struggling with his fate. In the opening scene of the play Macbeth receives a prophecy from three witches. They proclaim that he will be the thane of Cawdor. He responds by saying, “By Sinel’s death I know that I am thane of Glamis/ but how of Cawdor”(I, iii, 70-73)? At first, he does not realize to earn this title what he must do, but when he realizes he is taken aback. His bewilderment prefigures his perpetual struggle with his fate. Macbeth also is excessively ambitious which constantly affects him throughout the play. He is too determined to become king and will kill anyone to ensure that this will transpire. Macbeth’s struggle and ambition make him the quintessence of tragic hero.
In the story “Frankenstein” Victor Frankenstein is a scientist with little friends and he liked to be by himself. He created the hideous monster Frankenstein an 8 foot tall man. In this story Victor was a villain. He made his monster have a complete disregard for human kind, he had an obsession with playing God, and his selfishness throughout the novel are all evidence as to why Victor Frankenstein plays as the villain in the story.
A tragic hero is said to be doomed from his beginning. A victim of his own ambition and moral weakness, Macbeth decline from a kind, respectable warrior, to a murdering, lying, fiend. It is his obsessive and literal belief in the prophecies that impaired him. The tragedy of Macbeth is of the kind of man he could have been and almost was, but fell short because he overlooked the contradictions in his character and made the fatal mistake of giving in to his ambition.
own destructive downfall. A tragic hero can be described as a great or virtuous character in a
He fights every battle as if it is his last and therefore comes out on top.
In conclusion, the witches with their riddle prophecies ignite Macbeth’s vaulting ambition as well as undermining and tempting Macbeth into the regicide of Duncan, upsetting the natural orders of things, on top of that, Lady Macbeth manipulates Macbeth into committing ‘foul act’, belittling on his manhood and thus play an even more significant role in ruining Macbeth. But ultimately, his vaulting ambition itself indeed is to be the most to blame for his own destruction since a true hero would have upheld their sense of righteousness and honor, but Macbeth as a hero has failed. After all, Shakespeare has successfully craft Macbeth as a fallen hero, by first presenting him as an honorable hero, distracted by external forces, ends up destroying himself from the inside.
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” (The Dark Knight, 2008). This quote describes the archetypical tale of the tragic hero. As Aristotle had illustrated in Poetica, the tragic hero is defined as possessing hubris and harmartia, arrogance or a tragic mistake respectively. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, we follow the titular character as we witness his rise to the throne to then see his immediate downfall. Macbeth stands among Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, showing the effect of power on an individual. His ultimate demise in the story’s resolution gives insight into what catalyzed the supposed events. Without a doubt, Macbeth had transformed from the hero to eventually the villain.