The Mythic Hero In Barth's Bellerophoniad

"Bellerophoniad" is the little satisfying of the tales in Chimera, partly because its hero is a barren and fanciful hero who abjectly tries to achieve the mythic heroic motif and falls. His story has trivial sex and spirit of the three and he is the most self- centered and distinguishing of Barth 's fiction heroes. The story articulates the most beliefs towards myth and harmony with Bellerophon 's fake character, many of those characters are not positive. By the climax of the tale, when the internal ambiguity "phony" within the title, extends much more a meaning of both the narrative and its protagonist, even fiction, ill harmony, full of borings, clump, gap a kind of unnatural metaphor (319-20). The tale is about an anti-myth and becomes nearby to the intentional fallacy by introducing, a story of over confidence on the mythic form by depending on an analysis of that pattern. Bellerophon attempts too strong and too long for the tale to be as victorious as the others.

Barth 's beliefs almost myth in "Bellerophoniad" contains myth as comic parody and burlesque as a close pattern or story, as a literary belief, an artifice, and untruth (289), as a fake pattern, and as a chaos (302). The myth is also marked as Bellerophon 's fake "autobiographical road chart" (175), as "poetic refining of our ordinary Freudian experience. In this point of view , the work of Barth 's favorite central themes" (210), as Jerome Bray 's "ideal of the earth" (256) which is reality than the dream of fact, as Anetia 's masscults big plan and "the publicity of successors"(288),as Polyeidus ' annoying catalogue of sexual assault , trivial jealousies , potential grabs ; that alabaster columned ghetto of paragon"(307). The "Bellerophoniad" also tells that the tale it says isn 't a false, but something greater than truth as a