The Anti-Hero

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The Anti-Hero
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The Anti-Hero

• The concept of an Anti-Hero is often used in
  darker literature.
• The Anti-Hero is being used more in modern
  literature as authors try to portray villains as
  complex characters
• An Anti-Hero relates to a reader because the
  Anti-Hero displays more humanity that a regular
  Hero.
• An Anti-Hero may try to do what is right by using
  questionable means.

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The Anti-Hero

• It is clear that he has human frailties he has
  flaws
• Qualities normally belonging to villains - such
  as amorality, greed and violent tendencies - are
  tempered with more human, identifiable and even
  noble traits
• He is often disillusioned with society, or
  increasingly becomes so
• He often seeks for redemption or revenge for his
  own satisfaction, and sometimes for the greater
  good of society

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The Anti-Hero Characteristics

• Anti-heroes can be awkward, antisocial,
  alienated, cruel, obnoxious, passive, pitiful,
  weak, or just ordinary.

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Types of Anti-Hero

• Some Anti-Heroes may be unable to commit to
  traditional values of society. 
• This type of Anti-Hero distrusts conventional
  society.
• Another type of Anti-Hero cannot get a break in
  life. 
• He/she will move from one disappointment to
  another, their efforts always ending in failure.
• The Anti-hero does not always die at the end of a
  text

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Napoleon Dynamite
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Captain Jack Sparrow