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This 3 page paper discusses the importance of mythology, particularly at the national level. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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is the first epic poem in English, but one poem doesnt give a country an entire mythology. The renowned J.R.R. Tolkien once said that he wrote his Lord of the
Rings in part to give England a mythology that it lacked. This paper discusses the importance of myths to a person, and to a nation. Discussion Researching the topic has
led to a slight rethinking of it. Mythology in the classical sense refers to stories like Hercules and his Labors; or the time when Hades stole Persephone and took her
to live with him in the Underworld. But there is another mythology, much less fanciful and more relevant to life today: that is the idea of the national myth. A
national mythology is a shared believe in some national attribute or action; a common American myth is that World War II was the last "good war," for instance. According
to Ernest Renan who spoke in 1882, two things constitute a nation: "shared past memories and the present will to live together" (Abizadeh, 2004, p. 291). The latter is the
"normative criterion of legitimacy ... while the former provides the affective source that empirically motivates willed consent" (Abizadeh, 2004, p. 291). That is, the will to live together is the
result of sharing past memories. These shared memories of common experiences, whether "of glories, sacrifices [or] common suffering" bind the society together and allow it to "act together in unified
fashion" (Abizadeh, 2004, p. 291). This motivation doesnt come from a sense of immortality, because nations are not eternal; rather, the binding character and motivating impetus for action are found
in the nations "shared historical memory; the essence of the nation is that all the individuals have many things in common, and also that all have forgotten many things ...
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