Critical Analysis: Achilles vs. Superman
In the history of great wars and terrible blood thirsty battles, the name of an important hero has always taken over as the protagonist. This is the case with Achilles, without any doubt one of the greatest heroes and warrior in Greek mythology. Achilles like no other man at that time in the surface of the world, saw that in his blood there was clearly genes of the Gods and Goddesses of the Olympus. [Due to his relation and ancestry related to the gods Achilles was given the gift of immortality, or that was what people thought. The story of superman is very similar to one of Achilles, both characters expressing the strength and the bravery that every hero in a story should possess. Superman like Achilles…show more content… army to test two twin misses is discovered by Lex Luthor, then he diverts a missile to a week spot in the San Andreas Fault. Lex Luthor is aware that superman could spoil his plan and tricks him by guiding him into an underground facilities exposing him to kryptonite, superman manages to escape and divert one of the missiles, and contain the explosion of the second one. In the end of the movie
Superman saves the day and gets to save and keep the cute girl and the criminal end up in jail, just like in any other superhero movie.
In this comparison both of the characters show him unusual characteristic of immortality and the ability to fight strong enemies and emerge with victories, Sadly Achilles does die in the battle of troy.
Achilles and Superman both possess more than a human and in both cases the origins of this characters comes from something powerful not found on earth, superman coming from another planet, and
Achilles sharing ancestors with gods from Olympus. The learning that both stories teach me is that everyone came to this world for a purpose, superman saved the world because he knew that was his purpose, and Achilles enlisted in the Greek army because he knew he came to his world to be legendary
