📌موضوعات جانبی:
🔹Literature:
- Hamlet’s dilemma, character, his tragic flaw and his faith
- Monomyth: hero’s journey
- Joseph Campbell’s theory: Folklore and Romance and how they shaped literature
- Female protagonists in literature: The Greek tragedies
- New historicist approach: the interpretation of hero’s nature based on the ideological discourse of different eras
- Deconstructionism: the duality of a hero
- The classical antiquity and their approach towards heroes: Perseus, Hephaestus, etc.
- John Milton’s protagonist: Satan as a heroic figure
- The author’s resurrection in the narrator: autobiographical novels (A Farewell to Arms, Portrait of an artist as a young man, Ham on Rye, Notes from the House of Dead)
- How heroes and anti-heroes are two sides of a coin?
- Beloved anti-hero: Wuthering Heights Heathcliff
- The possibility of multiple heroes (foil, side, protagonist, …): contradiction or harmony?
- Moral relativism: the gray area of heroes and anti-heroes
- Is morality objective or merely self-interest?
- How can one identify protagonist’s true nature or his choices?
- Psychoanalysis of Literary figures: Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield, Crime and Punishment’s Raskolnikov, Goethe’s Faust, The Great Expectation’s Miss Havisham, Thus Spoke Zarathustra’s Zarathustra, Servantes’ Don Quixote, Three Musketeer’s D'artagnan, Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- Comparison pf Goethe’s Faust and Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus
- Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, Celine’s Journey to the end of the Night
- Rostam’s 7 labours, Hercules 12 labours, Odysseus’ purification
- How did Odysseus become an odyssey?
- Achilles and Paris in Iliad
🔸Art & Culture:
- Nietzsche’s Beyond good and evil
- Who are the real heroes of the society? Who do you consider an influential figure in history and why?
- The role of the elites in a community: genius Vs. Popularity
- Teacher as a protagonist Vs. guidance
- The hero’s mentor: what made a protagonist a protagonist?
- Binary oppositions: Batman and Joker, etc.
- The gray line of good and evil: The Boys series
- Protagonist review of Apocalypse now, Casablanca, Vertigo, Interstellar, Sopranos, Fight Club, Boyhood, Birdman, Full Metal Jacket, Sweeney Todd, Frankenstein, etc.
- Matrix’s antagonist: the organization behind the evil
- Review of Super Heroic Movies: why so widespread and commodified?
- The Hollywood’s “shallow” portrait of hero: the western movies.
- The Lion King’s approach towards hero’s journey
- How does Thanos makes sense?
- Beethoven’s 5th Symphony: capture the journey of hero
- Pre-Raphaelite portraits and their characteristics
- How can a painter capture the entire journey of a hero on a single canvas?
- The innocence of the character: light and color in paintings (Christ’s portraits)
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