Disney properties, which include everything from Thor to Toy Story, draw on well-worn devices of mythic structure to give their stories cultural resonance.
I came to realise that if this story still occupied a kind of mythic register, not just for me but for the country, it was largely because it had never really been told.
And we invent mythic figures so that the dramas and conflicts that happen with them, their strengths and their weaknesses, the negotiation, the inner wars between those strengths and weaknesses, actually define their heroism.
Tragedy is not a form of mythical narrative, " myth was both in tragedy and at the same time rejected by it." 2 Tragedy is not simply mythic, as many people assume; it is the problematization of myth.