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is a champion not of things become but of things becoming. That is, he is one who brings new life to a dying culture by slaying the monster of the status quo.

Campbell (1949) defines the hero as the champion not of things become but of things becoming. . . the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo. The hero's task always has been and always will be to bring new life to a dying culture (p.20)

is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. Freud

is a man who would argue with the Gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. Norman Mailer

is a often merely a wholesale man-butcher.

is a person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it. Mark Twain

is a result not of nature alone, but of both nature and fortune.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too... and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is admired: In fact he is the projection of the youth's own soul.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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