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I am new here and this is the first time I post my issue here. You comments and suggestions are welcom. 203. "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." The word character can be defined as: the combination of qualities or features that distinguishes one person, group, or thing from another. Whether the best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the man and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its heroines depends on one fact that is whether the characters of those heroes or heroines are representative enough. Personally speaking I think if one wants to understand the character of a society heroes and heroines may sever as guidance but not the best way. In the first place, many heroes and heroines are legendary figures and their authenticity are open to doubt. Every nation and every culture have their own heroes and heroines and some of those great figures can trace bake to the very beginning of themselves. For so many years their heroic deeds are still popular among its peoples and some of them are even been idolized so much that they are just perfect. However, we know that no one is perfect, and due to the lack of sufficient history documents we can never know if they really did those magnificent things and if they did it for a noble purpose. It is very likely that people combined many heroes and heroines into one person for a realistic purpose such as to unite its people, to encourage its people or just to raise the moral of its people. Under these circumstances, those heroes and heroines are false images and relay on them to understand the character of the whole society is indisputably problematic. In the second place, there are good chance that it is because lake of such heroes and heroines that the society deliberately created them. For instance, in a country where corruption is widespread and its people are complaining violently. In order to achieve social harmony and stability the government may try very hard to create one righteous government official to sever as heroes. Despite that this government official may be a good one serves his country and people diligently without selfishness, he is not representative enough and he is just in minority. If we presumptuously drew a conclusion about the whole society merely based on what he said and did then we can see how ridiculous we are. However, in many cases heroes and heroines may give us valuable information about the character of the society, because many heroes and heroines are derived from ordinary people which is the basic of our society. From the character of the heroes and heroines we can see what character this society cherishes and by this way we can know something about the inner world our its people. To sum up, heroes and heroines are more often than not realistic figures and if we try to understand the character of a society through the understanding of its heroes and heroines we should take great care because of the false image they may represent. Nevertheless, it is still a useful way for us to get a better understanding of the character of a society indirectly.