Assignment 1-3-4
Written Analyses
Analysis 3
Heroes
and The Cult of the Celebrity
It
is not hard to see that our world is affected by heroes and celebrities. There
are many theories which describe them who they really are. Heroes are usually defined by great bravery,
facing danger with no fear, showing great courage, overcoming difficulties and
saving people’s lives. Heroes are role models and inspiration for people. They
are ideals who and what we tend to be in our daily lives. Bob Marley is a great
example of a hero. His contribution to his country and to worldwide society
made him a national hero. On the other hand, the cult of the celebrity is very
popular because people wish to possess everything they see what celebrities
have, starting from money, property, power, popularity, and good place in
society. Celebrity’s lives are so
fascinating to people because celebrities have fame and they are rich and lead
exciting lives. This makes people to
follow their lives in order to see how they are successful or just because they
admire them so much and want to be like them. Example for celebrity is Kim
Kardashian known as reality television star, model and actress.
Bob
Marley, a musician who changed music and its flow is a hero in many ways. Bob
Marley is hero of many people too and also known as peacemaker. He made peace
with two opposing leaders Prime Minister Bustamante and Prime Minister Manley in
his live concert and prevented the guerrilla war that was going to happen
between them. In one occasion people tried to kill him, but he survived and the
same day he came back on the stage to finish his concert. He propagated meaning
of love through his words, which people found motivating to unite in love. We
call hero a person who is known to have done some exceptional deeds, and that
is who Marley was. He wasn’t just famous person who enjoyed his popularity and he
used that advantage to do good for society.
Kim
Kardashian is a celebrity who was born rich with open door to success. She is
famous and has many fans that just adore her and follow her life through her
reality show. But all her popularity and power is centered on her. I was
reading magazine where she made a comment that if her web site, Twitter,
Facebook is not visited with high amount of her fans, she starts freaking out
because it might be possibility that her popularity fades. This shows that the
most important thing for her is to be popular and then everything else. But her
fans love her just the way she is. They want to be like her, to look like her,
and even to live like her.
The
insights that I gain from this topic is a big difference between heroes and
celebrities. Heroes are much more sincere and noble persons who are doing
everything to achieve something good for society and individuals. So whatever
they do, they are honored for that, but from my point of view not enough. While
celebrities’ primary thing is their popularity which will show them to the
world how great, rich, good looking and famous they are. But I guess that society
likes more celebrities than heroes because they are much more shown in media.
Therefore celebrities’ life becomes occupation and curiosity of the people.
References:
Oxford
University Press. (2012). Definition of hero. Retrieved from http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/hero
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