Anthropomorphism is a trait that humans use to give a inanimate objects or natural phenomena a human characteristic. Anthropomorphism is extensively used in religion and mythology by depicting deities with human form and ascribing human emotions or motives to force of nature. In ancient mythology they represented the divine deities as a human form with human qualities. The deities resembled human beings by appearance, personality, and they had many human behaviors that could explain natural phenomena, creation, and historical events. They did many things like humans for instance getting married, having children, fought battles, created weapons, and took care of animals.Different anthropomorphic deities represent specific human concepts like love, war, beauty, or the seasons. They had human qualities like wisdom, beauty, and power, and human weaknesses like greed, hatred, jealousy, and anger. Example of deities that were like humans are the Greek deities Zeus, and Apollo.
Anthropomorphism can be used in certain types of literature like religious, fables, fairy tales, and modern literature. In religious literature they personify god, or whom they believe in for instance the Christians personify God in the form of Jesus. In fables the animals are unique and these make them very interesting to mankind. The fables anthropomorphism animals to illustrate principles of life and to spread wisdom. Fables that are anthropomorphic are Jataka tales, and Panchatantra. Anthropomorphic motifs are very common in fairy tales. The 'tale of two brothers' has talking cows in it, and 'cupid and psyche' has a west wind that carries psyche away, but then an ant is upset for her and joins to help her in her quest.
In modern literature the objects can be seen as representing facets of human personality and character. Modern literature that include anthropomorphism are Alice in Wonderland, Winnie the Pooh, The Wind and the Willows, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Elves, and Doctor Doolittle. Many films like in Walt Disney, are anthropomorphic because they take the object and make it into a human, by either allowing the character to speak like humans, dress, eat, walk, or even behave like them. For instance the movie cars, the characters speak like humans, or Mickey mouse, donald duck, kung fu panda, tinkerbell, dora the explorer, my little pony, and many more. The anthropomorphism that was used in literature has created a furry fandom, meaning that it promotes and creates stories and artwork that have anthropomorphic animals, and the message of humanity by using anthropomorphism.
Humans are the main source of anthropomorphism in the world. We create it by treating animals or inanimate objects like humans. The animals or inanimate objects begin to form human qualities because when you are taking care of something and raising it, it will start to learn how its being treated and it will begin to copy what you are doing. It is becoming influenced from you. We train animals, we create movies and write books, and to this day we are trying to create robots who can act like humans. "A human-like robot, which can detect people's emotions and chat with them, will be for sale in February, 2015, according to Softbank Corp".
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