How to Identify a Hero

How to Identify a Hero

Heroes are often of ______origin

•  May be sons of ______

•  unusual childhoods

•  left ______and brought up in poverty, isolation

•  discover real ______when older and ______

Heroes are neither ______

•  Subject to ______

•  not immortal but may suffer ______

•  invulnerable except ______

•  may be ______only with one particular ______

Heroes are called upon to a make a journey, ______

•  Choose difficult, dangerous ______

•  OR are ______for the adventure

•  labor for good of others (rid land of monster, bring back ______object to people)

•  quest not always ______, but follow through nobly; refuse ______

Heroes ways are not always ______to the heroes

•  Way or ______not always clear

•  thus, often become ______or solve riddles

Heroes’ ways are beset with dangers, ______, and ______

•  Cruel kings, ______, dangerous seas common dangers

•  go far from ______

•  tempted to ______

•  temptations appeal to their ______

•  ______often most dangerous temptation

Many quest tales supply friends, ______as company

•  Although given companionship, still feel alone because friends and servants do not ______

•  OR are motivated by ______, not the mission

Heroes have ______

•  Help from ______sources

•  (e.g. godmothers, witches, etc.)

•  given magic potion, ______, or info.

•  Guides can be ______, help to a point

Heroes descend into ______and are not the same after emerging from darkness

•  Usual ______: descent into hell-like place of suffering or ______

•  death-rebirth a type of ______, maturity, or ______

What heroes seek is usually no more than a ______of what they really find

•  Goal ______

•  success, achievement of goal ______

•  ______more important than object of quest

With few exceptions, myth heroes are ______

•  Women may be ______, but not often seen in role of hero

•  women provide protection, guidance, and ______

•  give hero ______