No Longer the Hero

I came across this image recently. Dore. I like Dore. High fantasy? Figuratively it echoes what I’ve been going through recently, or so I thought anyway, wrestling with subterranean creatures, in order to get the women too more than likely. But I can’t take the hero image seriously. I can’t relate to that, it isn’t me. But if I’m not to relate to the hero, then to what? The villain? Or maybe I just need a different kind of hero…I don’t know. But it seems like a point of departure for me…offfff I go…

This is a ramble spawned by the reflection of what I’ve stated above.

Like I said, this was just a ramble. I think what I am doing is looking for some kind of motif, a representation of what I can relate to in literature and art. An ideal maybe?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-hero

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byronic_hero

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fi … antiheroes

Ahh…Wikipedia and Google…how could I forget to let the internet do my thinking for me? :laughing:

Just joking :wink: Funnily enough the first thing I see when following one of those links is a Dore image.