. From a historical point of view, the only soil in which heroes can be born is in Western epics. In our land, whether it is Confucian "benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and faith", Buddhism’s Zen enlightenment, or Taoism’s "Tao law is natural", and it is in conflict with the hero's soul. Probably, if ideals and the suffering of breaking them are not allowed in culture, the purest heroism cannot be born.
1. The birth of a hero
A true hero must be born between heaven and earth, such as the Monkey King before Journey to the West, not the mother's uterus and birth canal in the biological sense. Life must have a blind date with misery, but the misery of the hero brings a bit of loneliness. The birth of Spartacus was awakened by the obscurity of the gladiator school, the ignorance of love and sex, and the ignorance of death, and was finally awakened by an upside down opponent. This kind of birth cannot be copied, with the unrecognized loneliness, the pain of going upside down, and the difficulty of opening eyes to the world.
From another perspective, heroes are not born by themselves, but are called out. The times call heroes, but they hate them.
The rise of Spartacus was not due to his own quest for life, but from the very beginning that he was encumbered by friends from the slave school. Just like at the end, the officer Krasu asked the captives, "Who is Spartacus?" The slaves who were sitting on the ground stood up, "I am", "I am", "I am", "I am "... What these followers care about is not a specific person, but a symbol that resonates with their inner suffering and longing for life. Therefore, when a hero is born, the individual representing the hero has been denied.
2. The tumbling of ideals and reality
"His ambition is high and clean, and his love is sad."
The suffering of ideals is too far away; the suffering of reality is unavoidable, and the suffering is too fatalistic; but it is not as much as the suffering of struggle, at a loss as to what to do, and avoiding it is harmful. The result of the math problem is very clear. You will be praised if you are right, and you will be punished if you are wrong, but the hero is obviously not a simple right or wrong judgment. They are between two glasses of bitter and deadly poisoned wine, choosing the one with the better pattern.
Spartacus' struggles are clear. In advance, he led a group of "rabbits" to defeat the well-trained Roman legion, and helped the "big-word" slaves to rewrite Rome's centuries-old ruling order, and the result would be defeat. If he retires, he will continue to use his life in the slave school to please the audience. Life depends on luck, death depends on luck, food depends on luck, and reproduction depends more on luck. As a result, the world is a slave. In the end, destiny pushed it under the wheel, and it lost even the right to choose.
The symbolized heroes are replaced by the human nature of the society, and their sexual instincts are extremely suppressed. Freud’s libido from an individual perspective was clearly castrated on the hero, but it is ridiculous that the hero has always been regarded as a symbol of male power. We worship heroes.
The followers project the purest ideals and darkest desires on the hero, hoping that he can help them complete the perfect integration of their personality. Such projections are destined to be shattered. Because a hero is essentially just a "person", an ordinary person labeled "hero", such integration is destined to be impossible for him. What's interesting is that Hyundai discovered that fans of heroes can iterate themselves. Followers will continue to rationalize the contradictions in the hero, and then give his divine interpretation, that is, the birth, aging, sickness and death of a half-god, half-human hero is to warn the world. This kind of iteration is undoubtedly sending the heroes to the guillotine by hand.
3. The death of a hero
Heroes must die, they must not end well, and they must be immortal.
The powerful energy endowed by the followers gradually over-expanded the hero's self-awareness. At this time, self-confidence turned into conceit and self-esteem turned into arrogance, and the heroes began to attribute victory to their own efforts, rather than destiny. They think that they are the protagonist of the epic, and the script should be written around him. He deliberately denied that his followers were cool in nature, low-hearted, and always abandoning. Finally, he put his own personal consciousness above the group consciousness, and finally embarked on the road of destruction.
Spartacus's fortune is: he failed, he died. He became a hero because he met the attributes of a hero's death. Otherwise, people like Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others will become thieves of the country, or like Liu Bang and Cao Cao and others will become deep-faced politicians. In short, people who have died well are not allowed to become heroes. Fans resist a specific person to become the incarnation of a hero. Whether it is folklore or historical records, such stories are not allowed to exist.
The establishment of the epic needs to end with some kind of victory, and end with a heroic twilight. Although Spartacus failed in the uprising, it is clear that his courage to pursue freedom has infected a group of contemporaries and inspired countless newcomers. "I would rather die on the battlefield for freedom, rather than die in a gladiatorial arena for the pleasure of aristocratic lords."-This sentence is the perfect footnote to heroism.
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