Superhero Expropriation

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My paper will be based on the relationship between human beings, seen as reader, and the superhero, expropriation of our inside qualities. My other aim will be to find correspondences between the magic-ritual world, the one appertaining to the more traditional values of society, and the world where superheroes were created. They seem to be one the opposite of the other, because of the many differences they manifest in finding themselves onto the society in which they are developed.
Traditional myths, rituals and symbologies find their origins in mental and social processes, similar to the ones that push today’s man to trust modern myths.
Contemporaneous society is the result of an accelerated evolution, in which humans found themselves, seeming to be a underdeveloped. At the same time, modern men find the necessity to rely on those myths. Contemporaneous man has found the necessity to create some modern …show more content…

In fact, every human quality is celebrated in Superman’s character, to its maximum splendor, in the most extreme sense of the term. Almost as a God, representing a divinity. In this sense, Superman is a God’s representation. Conversely to most of the other characters who would then follow Superman, he does not wear any mask, neither a costume, because he does not have the need to hide his identity. Detail that does not have to be underestimated, as the costume is seen as the representation of superheroes’ skin, its appearance facing the world. It is the face of the ideal which has to be represented.
Therefore a dualism is created on superhero’s figure, of its personality: the civil, human, and the vigilant one, ready to face anything to save humanity. Through the function of the mask happens the shift between these two views. Superman, not having a mask, separates himself from other superheroes’ world. He’s depicted as a divine figure, his vigilant face and the civil one

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