Comic books are often blamed for societal failure. Comics
are the perfect excuse for a child's bad behavior. Comic books are often violent
and very influential. Kids these days look for role models and some of the role
models they find happen to be in comics. Parents also hate to place blame on
themselves for their children acting out. This is why they look towards comics
to blame. It seems like no one ever fesses up to any of their mistakes and
people look for a reason to cover them up. Comics cannot be continued to cover
up or mistakes. We need to start getting our acts together and realize we are
the ones who need to take responsibility for our actions. If society is that
influenced by comics we definitely have a major problem.
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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