Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals

Every society has its own heroes or its models that act as a symbol to show special characters of society. Heroes at any societies were from the heart of societies and interacted with people and knew their problems. They had particular goals and spent most of their time to reach their highest ideals under difficult circumstance. Their efforts reflected the demands of people from different kinds of levels of societies.

Understanding the character of a society has a wide variety of ways like studying the historical events that society struggled with or considering the characters of its heroes. Examining the features of the men and women that people selects them as heroes illustrate certain significant facts about the characters of a society. For instance, in some societies that people faced with different kinds of economical problems, they preferred to select someone as heroes that had important roles to solve economical problems. Some societies that were governed by tyrannies had belligerents that tried to fight with kings.

India is one of developing countries that have several heroes like Mahatma Gandhi who reveal a society’s highest ideals. People in India wanted to be independent and had their own countries while their government led by English political men. Mahatma Gandhi fought against English political men and showed the characters of Indian people against tyranny. The most proportion of Indian people followed his way in order to be independent. So, considering the characters of Mahatma Gandhi makes contribution to realize the characters of Indian society.

In addition, Mandela was another hero for his society that illustrated his people’s characters during his life. People suffered from economical problems and their leader did not pay attention to their problems. Poverty and paucity destroyed cities and countries sides in Mandela’s country and people wanted to fight against those problems. Mandela acted as a symbol of poor people and tried to reflect problems of his society to the world and increased the awareness of other people from all over the world about bad circumstances of his country. He had significant role in his society as regards being triumph against injustice and rigorous.

In conclusion, investigating the features of heroes of every society makes an important contribution to understand the characters of a society. Because these heroes are symbol of their societies and express same feeling with the people who live at the same society. Most of them are from lowest level of societies and aware about the problems that people are struggling with during their life. They try to provide their people with the golden opportunity to improve their circumstances.