The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines. - GRE Issue 103
The speaker claims that the character of a society's heroes and heroines ('heroes' hereafter) reflects the character of that society. I tend to disagree. In my observation a society chooses as its heroes not people who mirror the society but rather people whose character society's members wish they could emulate but cannot--for want of character. Nevertheless, I concede that one particular type of hero----the sociopolitical hero--by definition mirrors the character of the society whose causes the hero champions.
First consider the sports hero, whom in my observation society chooses not m...
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