Think about it for a second.
Now, what makes a character a hero? Is someone like Puss in Boots or Jack (as in beanstalk) a hero? Traditional stories have conditioned us to believe that the character who comes out alive and well in the end, is the one we should admire most. But does this constitute a character of substance, or just a wily individual willing to ‘do whatever it takes’ to be the last person standing?
Today when we write characters we attempt to represent admirable qualities with human blemishes. These are our heroes because they are the people we aspire to be, despite the fears and faults we keep hidden in our hearts.
In this article here I discussed some of our more traditional heroes. Many readers agreed that the unexpected interpretation of the characters was something they’d never thought of before.
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