Perseus the God Helped
In the Clash of the Titans, Perseus, the protagonist, is an epic hero. Perseus is to be married to Andromeda. During their wedding ceremony, her mother, foolishly, says that Andromeda's beauty is "greater than Aphrodite," the goddess of love and beauty. Furious at this mortal and her people, Aphrodite says, through the head of her statue, that Andromeda is to be sacrificed to the Crakin in thirty days. Because Perseus loves Andromeda, he decides to find a way to kill the prodigious creature that will come in less than a month. In his quest, Perseus shows that he is an epic hero by displaying bravery, showing intelligence, and being worthy of receiving help from the gods.The first aspect of Perseus' self that makes him an epic hero is his valor. It does so in Perseus' fight with the freak Callibus. Callibus, the recently deformed man, is bigger and stronger than any normal man. The theater master tells the protagonist that "no man has fought with him and lived!" Callibus has Andromeda and the rest of the city under a spell and Perseus makes it his business to release them from it. He defeats the monster and takes his hand. Doing so, Perseus makes clear his courage. Truly, it is a scary and risky thing to fight a monster such as t
he one in the story. Any normal man would cringe at the though and promptly back away. Unlike a mare commoner, the epic hero, Perseus, goes into battle with his sward high. This displays an enormous amount of courage. Such bravery can only be classified as epic. But Medusa puts Perseus's courage to an even greater test. Any man, having only "a glimpse" of this snake-woman, will turn to stone. Because of this and Medusa's bow and arrow, men fear to enter the cave where she dwells. In the story, Perseus requires the head of the creature to stone the Crakin and save his love, Andromeda. The fact that he goes to Medusa and wins, shows he is exceedingly brave. It takes one who is able to control his anxieties so as to function normally in a stressful and frightening situation to fight a creature so powerful. Another words, only a brave man can do what does Perseus in the story. Because the protagonist possesses this quality, he can be considered an epic hero. Bravery is a common trait of the hero all throughout the movie, but it is mostly visible in the parts where he fights Callibus and Medusa. Besides pure strength and bravery, an epic hero must have a highly evolved imagination. The protagonist goes to the "Three Sisters" to find a way to beat the Crakin. Because the witched are blind, they must use a magic ball to see. Their innocence, however, hides the fact that they, as they plan to do with the protagonist, eat men. Upon entrance into the cavern where they live, Perseu
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