Theocratically speaking, Superman could fit in any kind of culture or country. He is undeniably stereotype super hero. But is superman American hero? Indeed he is an American character, but is he typical American character ? My answer is yes, even though superman is kind of too good to be true, and even alien like power makes his character somewhat non-realistic. However, since America is all about this perfect, and going by the book society, Superman is an American character. Some people may say he is not, but he is. Also, the way he grew up is all about American frontier, and represent immigrants who moved into America. Superman grew up in farm and moved into the urban society. His transformation into urban society is representing the time superman was born, and at that time it was time of transformation and frontier for American society. Also, he represented immigrant society, and American dream by moving into urban society and becoming a superhero of urban society.
Ohhh my goodness... When I decided on trying to analyze the mythological origins and references in superhero comics, I had no idea the can of worms I was opening up... On the one hand, it was awesome to see just how many connections there were between superheroes and psychology/mythology/philosophy, but all the information also made it terribly difficult to distinguish what I should be using and how to tie it all together. When I was talking to one of my sorority sisters about it she said, "Oh yeah, well, research essays are kind of like putting together puzzles..." and I think that really sums up what writing this paper was like for me. Fortunately, I was really interested throughout the whole process and I very much enjoyed writing the paper. Being a psychology major, I was especially interested in reading about the Jungian archetypes that had a lot of parallels with major modern comic books superheroes. I was also able to incorporate Joseph Campbell's "hero cycle&
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