Hercules Comparison
The story of Hercules is always twisted by the words of men. Not to demote the status of a god, but to relate to mankind's sins and happiness. The story of Hercules is degraded as a tragedy in Euripides form, Heracles, only to evoke piety and fear from the audience and to put a man of power down to a man of no status. Disney’s pixar film, Hercules, has been uplifted from the dark truth to the innocents that will be shown in front of the youth. Both examples still hold the importance of Hercules and his story as a demigod.
In the play, Hercales, Euripides repeatedly shows the importance of friendship. As Hercales is in the underworld completing his last labour, his family in Thebes is being held hostage by a souless tyrant named Lycus. Lycus usurps the throne and plans to burn his family …show more content…
In the play Heracles, Zeus cheated on his wife Hera and then was born Hercules. The snakes were sent by Hera and the madness to kill his whole family was sent by Hera. As well as Zeus not intervening in the saving the family of Hercales. In the pixar film, in order to meet the standards of little children, the story was completely changed to Hera and Zeus being the good people and made Hades the villain of the movie. In the movie, Hades planned to kill Hercales as a child by stealing him from the gods and making him mortal. After trying to kill the mortal god with snakes, which obviously failed. Unlike the movie the father of Hercules, Amphitryon, in the play curses Zeus for not intervening in a time of despair to help hercules’ family, “for nothing, then O Zeus, you shared my wife! In vain we called you partner in my sons! Your love is even less than you pretended; and I, mere man, am nobler than you, great god.” (pg72) Both the play and the movie shows some type of down fall of the hero, but the hero stays down and dishonored at the end of the play where the villain succeed and the hero has
In the play, Hercales, Euripides repeatedly shows the importance of friendship. As Hercales is in the underworld completing his last labour, his family in Thebes is being held hostage by a souless tyrant named Lycus. Lycus usurps the throne and plans to burn his family …show more content…
In the play Heracles, Zeus cheated on his wife Hera and then was born Hercules. The snakes were sent by Hera and the madness to kill his whole family was sent by Hera. As well as Zeus not intervening in the saving the family of Hercales. In the pixar film, in order to meet the standards of little children, the story was completely changed to Hera and Zeus being the good people and made Hades the villain of the movie. In the movie, Hades planned to kill Hercales as a child by stealing him from the gods and making him mortal. After trying to kill the mortal god with snakes, which obviously failed. Unlike the movie the father of Hercules, Amphitryon, in the play curses Zeus for not intervening in a time of despair to help hercules’ family, “for nothing, then O Zeus, you shared my wife! In vain we called you partner in my sons! Your love is even less than you pretended; and I, mere man, am nobler than you, great god.” (pg72) Both the play and the movie shows some type of down fall of the hero, but the hero stays down and dishonored at the end of the play where the villain succeed and the hero has