Devoir de Philosophie

myths and heroes

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Synthèse mythes et héros Introduction A myth is a story that wants explanatory and especially founder of a social practice. It is worn originally by oral tradition, which offers an explanation for some basic aspects of the world and the company has forged or vehicle these myths:o the creation of the world (cosmology);o natural phenomena;o the status of human beings, including its relationship with the divine, with nature, with other people (another sex, another group), etc.. ;o the origins of human society and its relations with other companies.The study of myths is called mythology.The term myth is often used to refer to a clearly erroneous belief at first, but may relate to specific elements so symbolique1 expressed and shared by a significant number of people.The myth differs from the legend (which implies some identifiable historical facts), the story (which means inventive without explaining) and the novel (which "explains" with little basis).For example, leprechauns and the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow and more real as the mystery surrounding the death of Marilyn Monroe facts.A hero (or, in the feminine, a heroine) is a real or fictional character in history, human mythology or art, whose top facts worth sung his gesture. The latter, sweetened by the golden legend of hagiographers, are passed into popular legend.Depending on the culture, a hero is a demigod, a legendary figure, an ideal, a superman or s...

« ideal, a superman or simply a courageous person, showing selflessness. The role of the hero is between the metaphysical aspiration, almost   religious, exceeding the human condition, including a physical point of   view and from the most realistic to work for the good of the community   aspiration, a point moral view. A third role may be as the propaganda for   a political or religious ideology. By extension, the term "hero" means the principal of a fictional character,   whatever qualities he has shown. If his behavior does not match the   ideal (for  example, if it is loose or greedy), the hero can be described as   anti­hero. For example Superman comic book heroes, movie or animated cartoon,   or martin luther king symbol of the struggle against racial segregation in   the United States or Nelson Mandela. J have chosen to talk about the salem witch for my part of the myths and   then mac carthy the hero part, I talk about the Hollywood blacklist and   the hunt for communists in the united states that prevailed in the 50s. Les sorcières de Salem  The  Salem Witch Trials  were a series of county  court   trials  which   accused people of being  witches . The Salem Witch Trials involved two   kinds of trials. First, court hearings wer e held before local magistrates;   then trials were held in county court. The Witch Trials happened in   Essex, Suffolk and Middlesex  Cou    nties     of colonial  Massachusetts ,   between February 1692 and May 1693. During the Trials, over 150 people were arrested and put in jail after   being accused of practicing  witchcraft . Even more people were accused,   but were never formally charged by the authorities. Twenty­nine people  . »

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