The topic of this essay is mythology with the relation with single story. This essay was influenced by the writing Chimamanda Ngazi Adichie who wrote “The Danger of a Single Story.” In this essay I will discuss how the media affects Chimamanda as she arrived at Mexico. I will also discuss about mythological depictions in the media and how it affected the world, involving some famous films, characters in it and the original characters. Moreover Chimamanda believes that, “ To create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.” In her writing Chimamanda Adichie told a story of her first visit to Mexico. There she stood and felt guilty as she prejudged the Mexicans by her prior
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These depictions are often exaggerated and altered to provide us a more emphasis on the protagonist side main character and provide us the satisfaction of establishing a deep connection to the characters. To the movie producer’s point of view, this will make the form of art they were creating more appealing to the consumers, and resulting a greater income for them. Take the example of a scene from the Disney movie Hercules. Hades is shown to be a despised character in the movie, attempting to storm Olympus with his brothers, the titans, against the gods of Olympus. Zeus and the gods were captured by Hades and his army until Hercules saves the day swooping with Pegasus and breaking free every gods in captive, strengthening his father who was earlier unable to do any damage to the titans, began bombarding the life out of the titans, and with the grand finale of Hercules lassoing all the titans and expelling them from Earth, creating a cool supernova. The real myth strongly differs from the Disney version. Hades and Zeus were brothers, with their own important deities. They both defeated the titans and then defended from the attack of the giants, and Hercules did help them in the latter battle as a mortal since a prophecy stated that giants could only be killed when helped by a mortal. Yet the Disney version is more popular and known, and it could be the only story of Hercules people knew in their lives, and it is not even close to the real
These depictions are often exaggerated and altered to provide us a more emphasis on the protagonist side main character and provide us the satisfaction of establishing a deep connection to the characters. To the movie producer’s point of view, this will make the form of art they were creating more appealing to the consumers, and resulting a greater income for them. Take the example of a scene from the Disney movie Hercules. Hades is shown to be a despised character in the movie, attempting to storm Olympus with his brothers, the titans, against the gods of Olympus. Zeus and the gods were captured by Hades and his army until Hercules saves the day swooping with Pegasus and breaking free every gods in captive, strengthening his father who was earlier unable to do any damage to the titans, began bombarding the life out of the titans, and with the grand finale of Hercules lassoing all the titans and expelling them from Earth, creating a cool supernova. The real myth strongly differs from the Disney version. Hades and Zeus were brothers, with their own important deities. They both defeated the titans and then defended from the attack of the giants, and Hercules did help them in the latter battle as a mortal since a prophecy stated that giants could only be killed when helped by a mortal. Yet the Disney version is more popular and known, and it could be the only story of Hercules people knew in their lives, and it is not even close to the real