Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Ultimately good and evil then become contrived notions that are a function of a society’s current sense of morality. All that is good then becomes those whom defend current morality. This completely disregards the individual or the hero himself. The individual and his beliefs become irrelevant when all that matters is that his actions continue to protect the current standard morality. Thus, the heroes within Invincible are often compared with actors in movies playing a role. Since their real selves are such hidden aspects of their lives, when Fatale secretly sees their human sides, it almost seems as if both she and the reader are intruding upon their privacy. In that aspect, these heroes are merely images or roles with the qualities that make them human unknown and perhaps to a certain extent, undesired within the public sphere.

With villains however, what defines them as such is that they rebel against current morality. Doctor Impossible not only seeks power, but seeks it as an individual. While heroes merely reinforce and respond to a society’s current morality, villains act upon unrestrained free will in an attempt to mold the world to their views. As such, villains often embody more aspects of what we define to be human, such as Doctor Impossible’s attempt for recognition from the world that abandoned him and Corefire, the friend whom forgot him, than the heroes whom may or may not even have a worldview of how they perceive the future. Villains are the rebels whom when successful, become heroes in history. When their goals and worldview for the future succeed and impact society’s views yet they die, these so-called individuals then become named as martyrs. It is only when their worldview fails to cause an impact in altering societal morality or the individual fails to predict a future change in morality that the individual becomes named a villain.

1 comment:

lyransi said...

-Kathy Cheng

(sorry, forgot this time)