Hercules Themes

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Hercules
Ranim Habbal

Hercules

Hercules is one of the famous Greek myths; he was the son of the great god Zeus. Hercules (2014) a movie talks about the legend Hercules. The director is Brett Ratner, the writers are Ryan Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos, and the actor who played Hercules is Dwayne Johnson. Heroism, revenge, and justice are the themes that I will write about here. Overall, the movie was successful to show how Hercules was a great legend, but it missed up a bit by implying that Hercules wasn’t the son of Zeus, yet everyone was repeating this just to make people afraid of him.
The movie started with the scene of Alkmene giving birth, and Hercules came to the world. Then, the movie narrated the story that Hera hated Hercules because he was the son of Zeus, but from another woman. Due to that fact, Hera sent him two snakes to kill him when he was a young boy, but her plan failed because Hercules caught the snakes. The book ““The Complete World of Great Mythology” also stated this story, but it said Hercules was a baby. (Buxton, 2004, p. 114). This story, in both the movie and the book, shows how a great hero he was since he was a kid. Further, the movie didn’t show much about his 12 labours, …show more content…

According to the book, Hercules killed his wife and children because of Hera. Hera made him so mad that he slaughtered his wife and children. (Buxton, 2004, pp. 121-122). Whereas, the movie showed that Eurystheus, king of Athens, made Hercules drink something that drugged him, and then he made the wolves eat Megara and Hercules’ children. After that, Eurystheus made Hercules believes that he killed his own family. Hercules before the ending of the movie realized that Eurystheus made him think that he killed his family, but he didn’t. Therefore, Hercules killed Eurystheus to revenge. I believe that this story is a perfect example of revenge; it’s actually so satisfactory that Hercules killed

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