Essays on Legend

The Anzac Legend is an idealized version of the truth or is it the full truth. The Anzac legend was born on 25th April 1915 after the Australians displayed great courage, endurance and initiative, discipline and mateship during their eight months of fighting on Gallipoli. All these qualities that were shown in the soldiers’ efforts...

While the ANZAC Legend has roots in some truths of Australian wartime experiences, it is vastly based on a romanticised version of the 1914-1918 war. It has become a substitute for defining the traits and characteristics of what it is to be truly Australian with many war correspondents of that era suggesting that the bloodshed...

A hero stands up for the minority, the exploited, those oppressed when no one else will rise to the occasion. Many heroes share this capability, but some are different in the way they achieve this. Robin Hood is a special hero, for he is not simply a self-sacrificing outlaw who stood up for the vast...