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The Flawed Hero Citations __ The Flawed Hero __  The flawed hero is the perfect hero. It gives the character more demension and makes the hero seem more realistic. A flawed hero is presented in many films throughout the years for example the gladiator, million dollar baby, raging bull, and scarface. The flawed hero is a character that everyone can relate to. We all have flaws that we try to overcome by doing something very heroic, and because of our determination we sometimes do.

When Samson fell for Delilah, a woman from the Valley of Sorek, it marked the beginning of his downfall and eventual demise. It didn't take long for the rich and powerful Philistine rulers to learn of the affair and immediately pay a visit to Delilah. You see, Samson was judge over Israel at the time and had been taking out great vengeance on the Philistines—but that's another story. Hoping to capture him, the Philistine leaders each offered Delilah a sum of money to collaborate with them in a scheme to uncover the secret of Samson's great strength. Using her powers of seduction and deception, Delilah persistently wore down Samson with her repeated requests, until he finally divulged the crucial information. Having taken the Nazirite vow at birth, Samson had been set apart to God. As part of that vow, his hair was never to be cut. When Samson told Delilah that his strength would leave him if a razor were to be used on his head, she cunningly crafted her plan with the Philistine rulers. While Samson slept on her lap, Delilah called in a co-conspirator to shave off the seven braids of his hair. Subdued and weak, Samson was captured. Rather than killing him, the Philistinespreferred to humiliated him by gouging out his eyes and subjecting him to hard labor in a Gaza prison. As he slaved at grinding grain, his hair began to grow, but the careless Philistines paid no attention. And in spite of his horrible failures and sins of great consequence, Samson's heart now turned to the Lord. He was humbled. He prayed to God—a first—and God answered. During a pagan sacrificial ritual, the Philistines had gathered in Gaza to celebrate. As was their custom, they paraded their prized enemy prisoner into the temple to entertain the jeering crowds. Samson braced himself between the two central support pillars of the temple and pushed with all his might. Down came the temple, killing Samson and all of the people in it. Through his death, Samson destroyed more of his enemies in this one sacrificial act, than he had previously killed in all the battles of his life.
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Achilles' death is that he fell deeply in love with one of the Trojan princesses, Polyxena, Achilles asks Priam for Polyxena's hand in marriage. Priam is willing because it would mean the end of the war and an alliance with the world's greatest warrior. But while Priam is overseeing the private marriage of Polyxena and Achilles, Paris who would have to give up Helen if Achilles married his sister hides in the bushes and shoots Achilles with a divine arrow killing him. Achilles was thereafter killed by [|Paris] with an arrow (to the heel according to [|Statius]). In some versions, the god [|Apollo] guided Paris's arrow. Some retellings also state that Achilles was scaling the gates of Troy and was hit with a poisoned arrow.
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**Crash** is a movie about different characters stories that become intertwined with one another. Many of these characters are flawed in one way or another, most of their flaws have to do with racism. The main character that I focused in on for the archetype the flawed hero is Matt Dillon. Matt dillon playes officer John Ryan in this movie. John Ryan is a character that is stressed from the begining because his father is sick and his insurance company wont give him a medical note. He states some racial slurs to the woman that denys him the medical note, that showing his first flaw as a flaw hero. Then not too long after he stops a couple and pulls them to the side of the road and sexually hurasses the wife infront of her husband, that showing that he has even more flaws. But Later on in the movie the women that he sexually hurassed ends up flipping her car and is stuck underneath it. Officer John Ryan being the only cop at the scene goes to her rescue and becomes a hero and saves her.



The Wizard of OZ is another movie that has many flawed characters and they all do have a moment heroism. The main character that I focused on in this film was the scarecrow played by [|Ray Bolger]. His character was going on an adventure to try and find himself a brain along with three others looking for something they all felt they wanted and/or needed so they wouldnt have the flaw any longer. Bolger won a tony award for best performance by a leading actor in a musical in 1949.1985 Bolger became inactive. Then passed on January 15, 1987.

I feel as if the flawed hero shows up over and over again, because everyone has flaws and no one is perfect. Having flaws makes us able to connect with one another on some sort of level. It makes the characters more realistic, then being a superhero who doesnt like to show his flaws he is suppose to be all powerful. A flawed hero is in all of us and we all try to look past them and try to conquer whatever we sent our minds to.