Characteristics of a Hero
All the action revolves around this hero.
Who is the main character?
The hero's world is considered uneventful and ordinary.
What is the ordinary world?
It is a long narrative poem,
What is an epic?
One or both hero’s parents must be noble (royal) or divine (supernatural)
What is noble birth or divine right?
The hero accepts or denies the task.
What is the refusal of the quest?
Extraordinary heroes, hideous monsters, triumph or defeats in battles,
What are the characteristics of an epic?
The hero must travel in search of something.
What is a quest?
The hero is called away from the ordinary world.
What is the call to adventure?
epic hero, epic theme, epic setting, epic plot.
What are the elements found in the Odyssey?
The hero must have an imperfection that slows his journey.
What is an epic flaw?
The hero enters a world that has its own threat and creature.
What is entering the unknown/threshold?
Trojan war, heroism Odysseus, interference of the gods
What are the three important elements of the plot of Homer's epic?
The hero must have an ability that is better than everyone else.
What is Larger than life Quality?
The heroes progress through a series of tests, a set of obstacles that make them stronger preparing them for their final showdown.
What are the tests and the Supreme ordeal?
The greatest masterpiece of epic poems.
What are the Illiad and the Odyssey?