On Motif Of Exorcism By Heroes In Ancient Greek Myths

To conduct a research on Greek heroic myths from the motif of exorcism is animportant academic perspective. The pursuit of excellence is the core values of theancient Greek hero exorcist action.This essay devoted three sections in certifying thecore argument.To begin with, this article discusses the ancient Greek hero myths the possibilityand universality of the existence of the theme of hero and exorcism and looked in depthinto such issues as situation and unfolding process where the exorcism took place. Themost important implication conveyed in the discussed situation, whether dealing withadventure, honor or morality, is that Greeks never stopped in pursuing excellence. It isthis consciousness that propelled them to better themselves, which provided thepossibility of exorcism. When it comes to the unfolding process of exorcism, we studiedthree important facts, namely, the confrontation between heroes and devils, battle ofintelligence and assistance from Gods. All these three forms of exorcism have none theless displayed the core value of heroes in searching for excellence. In our view, heroes’ideal of pursuing prominence and becoming true heroes couldn’t be achieved withoutthe step of exorcism.Next, this article will deal with the metaphor of motif of exorcism by heroes. First,the devils in the myths implied every natural and social negative energy peopleencountered in their struggle for survival and development and the phycologicalnegative energy in their deep heart. Secondly, the heroes in the myth carried theaspiration and longing of people for peaceful and happy living. Thirdly, exorcism byheroes is a major feature that marks the progress in human’s history. Meanwhile, wealso uncovered the oppositional relation between good and evil in humanity implied inexorcism motif and the subconscious balance state they are longing for in the bottom oftheir heart. This chapter seemed unrelated to the theme of pursuing excellence, but theauthor must see that the metaphor in analyzing devils is no less an explanation of thehardships on the journey to excellence. The metaphor used in exploring significance ofheroes and motif of exorcism is nothing but to illustrate the forms in the search ofexcellence.Last is devoted to motif of exorcism by heroes in the sublime view of aesthetics.This chapter rotated around three aspects of “wild romance”“colour of humanity” and“sublime style”.In our opinion, heroic myths in ancient Greek is featured by upholdingstrength. They did not cover their intention of pursuing and praising strengthen and theirheroes were the best embodiment of strength.Another important characteristic of itsartistic charm lied in its description of heroes with innocent imagination, demonstratedby its pursuit of real expression of all characters gods, heroes and devils vividlyrevealed their inner innocence.It seeked for sublime and stressed the overwhelming momentum and vigorous and firm realm in terms of description style.In addition, themyth, in its motif, focused on justice and manifested a sublime and remarkable aestheticvalue. All of these analyses, in terms of their objective, are to prove their search for thesupreme realm of excellence, namely, super strength, innocent humanity and loftygoodness.