POST 4: Myths and Heroes

Myth and Heroes

I'm going to talk about the notion Myth and Heroes . First I would like to give brief definition of the notion. A myth is a popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence , especially one considered to illustrate a cultural ideal.

A hero is the protagonist of the story , the principal male or female character in a novel, poem,or dramatic presentation or a film. It can also be a modern-day hero, a person who has performed a heroic act or simply our own personal hero, our role model, who we look up to.

The Martian

The Martian is a 2015 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott based on Andy Weir's 2011 novel The Martian. Matt Damon strats as an astronaut who is mistakenly presumed dead and left behind on Mars.

  

During an expedition on Mars, the astronaut Mark Watney is left for dead by his team-mates,a storm having obligated them to take off as matter of urgency. But Mark survived and it is alone from now on, without way to leave on a hostil planet. So he is going to deploy all the means to contact the earth.In 225 million kilometers,his team-mates try to organize a mission to get back him at the risk of their lives.

                                                        
       

In my opinion Mark Watney illustrates the notion of Myth and Heroes. First he is like a ''Robinson Crusoe'' because he is surviving of a storm and is lonely in a place where there is nobody who live there.Even if he has not the qualities of the traditional hero , he still embodies  the idea of the modern and fictional hero,because he is an ordinary person in as extraordinary circumstance.He is  going to appeal his intelligence and his ingenuity. He is confronted with himself in Mars. Because there nobody and it’s an extreme solitude because it is another planet and another world.

   

Alone on Mars,he has resources in food limited which cannot allow him to survive until the arrival of the next mission. Thanks to the science he arrives to grow some potatoes. Mark Watney is also a scientifical hero because he have a camera with him and that he uses it as a newspaper for the scientists, so that they can be inspired by his experiment in case he would die. For example he arrives to do water with some fuel by realizing a chemical transformation.

Thanks to his courage and his determination he become an hero with whom we can easily fasten.