Myths: An Analysis of Cultural Understanding and Interpretation.
This four-page undergraduate essay examines some of the most enduring and destructive myths of the last two-hundred years, which have involved racial, ethnic, gender, and religious stereotypes or doctrines which have led to the deaths of millions of innocent people. There have been many ways in which myths have been understood and interpreted over the last two hundred years, but three require particular attention and discussion because of the profound effects they have had on modern history—the myth of the divine right of kings, the myth of male superiority, and the myth of racial superiority.
