 Chatterji suggested that one reason for the hero-as-self interpretation of stories and myths is the human inability to view the world from any perspective but a personal one.In the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Denial of Death", Ernest Becker argues that human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotional and intellectual response to our basic survival mechanism.Becker explains that a basic duality in human life exists between the physical world of objects and a symbolic world of human meaning.