The Archetype

In almost every work of fiction there are heroic figures. There are many different characteristics that all of these figures have in common. In my essay, I’m going to discuss each of these characteristics.

A lot of heroes have very serious personalities. Sometimes they have these personalities because the hero has gone through a bad event in their life which has caused them to become this character, but also made them become very serious. This sort of characteristic is usually changed throughout the scenes of a story as the hero meets new people and usually develops some sort of interest. While they usually change their minds about people by the end of the story, this is a characteristic shared by many different heroes.

Strength is a very common trait with heroes. A hero is supposed to be a character that can take whatever comes at them. A lot of these heroes are very physically strong, Some mentally. Like Superman or Thor and they can take hits and fight their enemies. The heroes that are mentally strong are able to keep fighting no matter how hard it may be. If they fall down, they get back up again. 

Heroes have to be very brave  otherwise they would not be able to do the things that a hero normally does. Being brave is doing tasks that normally people would never do.

This has been my essay on some of the traits and characteristics heroes have. All heroes have things in common.