The Nemean Lion- Kill the lion of nearby Nemea.Not going too in-depth with all 12, I will just give a brief description.
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Apollo told Hercules that he had to preform 10 heroic labors (this increases to 12 later on) if he wanted to be free from his sins.
He asked the God Apollo how he could get rid of his sins. When Hercules came to and realized what he had done, he was very distraught and wanted to somehow fix his mistakes. Even though he wasn’t in his right mind, someone has to take the blame and I think that it still lands on his shoulders. It makes the question of whether he is a good or a bad guy a little bit more complicated. With that in mind, it makes it a little easier to understand, but it’s hard to not disapprove of him because he did still do it. I wasn’t looking at the fact that Hera sent him madness and he didn’t have any control over what he was doing. Hercules went from being a hero in my eyes to a murderer.Īfter looking over the story for a second and third time I realized that I was just looking at the fact that he killed his family. Initially, this made me think that Hercules was a bad guy, and Disney just changed the story to make a good movie. Nevertheless, this still shocked me because I never knew he killed people, especially his own family.
#Head huntr movie#
I understood that my only knowledge about him is from a children’s movie where they obviously left that part out. When I heard this for the first time in class I was confused because I thought Hercules was a good guy, not someone who would have killed his whole family. Hercules had zero control of his actions and ends up killing Megara and his children. This playwright says that the madness made Hercules lose control “his children looked at him he was no longer himself his eyes were rolling he was distraught his eyes were bloodshot, and foam was oozing down his bearded cheek”. This incident was recorded by Euripides, a Greek tragic dramatist playwright. Hera struck Hercules with a fit of madness. Everything seemed to be going well for Hercules, but Hera’s anger never went away and she decided it was time to start making Hercules’ life as miserable as possible. He got married to Megara and they had two children together. Knowing she would lose in a fight, she thought that making Hercules’ life miserable would be a good punishment for Zeus.Īfter Hercules strangled the snakes sent by Hera, he grew up to become a strong warrior. Hera was still very angry at Zeus for having Hercules and wanted to get even with him. Even though Hera tried to kill Hercules when he was a young boy, her plan failed. She hated this so much that she sent snakes to kill the infant Hercules, but the young boy killed the animals. Married at the time to Hera and she hated the fact that there was a child born out of wedlock. In Hercules’ case, his father is Zeus and his mother in a mortal named Alcmene. To start, Hercules is a demigod which means one parent is a god and the other is a mortal. So, everything we talked about was new information to me and I found it very interesting. I want to start with a little background about Hercules because I came into this class with no real knowledge of the subject. That is want I hope to determine after writing this paper.
With that, it made me wonder if Hercules was a good guy or a bad guy. Being so surprised about the stories I heard about Hercules it made me rethink my original perception of him. He was almost a celebrity in my eyes, but after taking this course I have realized that he wasn’t what I had imagined. In my mind, he was a big strong guy who helped people and everyone liked him. The extent of my knowledge about Hercules was what I could recall from the movie I watched as a little kid. All I knew was the names of a few Gods (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades) and one Hero (Hercules). Other than watching Hercules when I was a kid, and Percy Jackson when I was a teenager, I was pretty much clueless about the subject. Coming into this class I had no knowledge of Greek mythology whatsoever.
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