...Another character who has a fragmented hero’s journey is Odysseus from The Odyssey. Odysseus is the hero in this story despite his flaws, and his hero’s journey is his road back home where “home” is the elixir. His hero’s journey follows the guidelines well, missing steps or ghosting over some. The first steps starting with Ordinary world and ending with crossing the threshold are substituted for Odysseus’s fight in the Trojan war that lasts ten years. Because he was taken from his ordinary world to fight without protest, the story glances over these few steps, picking up at step 6. In other words, his journey starts with an Ordinary world but doesn’t engage with steps two through 5; therefore, his journey follows only part of the guidelines...
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...A Modern Hero’s Journey: A Short Play due dates: brainstorming due 4/7 Dr. Harrison cover letter, map, setting, character list due 4/11 English 1h formal essay, inc. WC page due 4/16 Spring 2014 You, or you and one partner, are Hollywood screenwriters who have a brilliant idea for a movie about a modern hero’s journey, modeled on Odysseus’s journey, and given a structure by Joseph Campbell: in other words, you will be showing your hero’s origin and his separation (you’ll have to create your own back story since we don’t observe Odysseus’s origin in The Odyssey), and his initiation and return to his homeland. Your job is to make the story your own by creating your own character names, setting, and back story, and then modeling your journey on the specific encounters Odysseus has, as he makes his way home. You will pitch your story to me (I’m really a famous Hollywood director—my stage name is dr.h--traveling incognito as a San Jose high school English teacher): For me to consider your story and launch you to stardom, your pitch, uploaded to your website(s) must accomplish all of the following: Cover letter: please find a template for cover letters, or create your own, to address me and give me a brief one-paragraph pitch: what is your story and why should I want to read on? Brainstorming: During class time, you will create a googledoc in which you (or you and your partner) brainstorm each of the following. Upload this googledoc to your website(s)...
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...exhibits no initial flaws, Carl’s flaws are emphasised from the start. They reflect the opinion of today’s society that old people are a burden, and best disposed of in a retirement home. Despite these differences, these heroes both follow Campbell’s hero’s journey (Power Pt – 12 Steps of a Heroes Journey). Although the call to adventure is obvious to Oedipus who wishes to save his kingdom from famine, Carl’s is not. He is destined for the old people’s home and is unwillingly forced upon the voyage. During his journey, Carl is faced with the ordeal of holding onto his house which is symbolic of his past, (Power Point – Symbols House-past, balloons- dreams) or helping his new friends whilst Oedipus is tested by his brother in law and a soothsayer. Carl alters his fate with a little help from Russel, (Video – Doug I’m a great tracker) and yes Doug the talking dog. However, Oedipus falls victim to his prowess and obsession with seeking the truth. Carl returns home with future adventures to be sought whilst Oedipus falls from his podium having no power to help others. Although the structure of the hero’s journey is consistent,...
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...Hero’s present themselves in many different ways and in many different cultures, but many of them follow the same path. This path is Joseph Campbell's hero’s paradigm. Joseph Campbell’s hero’s paradigm shows itself in “The Most Dangerous Game”. The hero’s journey starts out with the hero being nobly born. Then, the hero goes on a quest. During the quest the hero encounter struggles, conflicts, setbacks, and change until they reach a nadir, or a low point, that they only can get out of using what is inside of them. Then, they pull through the nadir, and on the way to success, they still encounter conflicts, setbacks, and loss until they reach their goal. The main character of “The Most dangerous game”, Rainsford, experienced many of these stages....
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...needed to. Everybody changes. People start one way and end their lives another accordingly to the roads they have traveled. The roads I’ve taken have taught me to stand up and make people take notice of me. People are all following their own paths growing and changing as they go. We all take roads and each road will take you to a different point. Joseph Campbell came up with “The Hero’s Journey” to illuminate these changes a person goes through. These are a set of stages a hero, or person, go through during a significant time. Campbell writes, “Stories of these mythological adventures are really metaphors and symbols for the “journeys” in life that all of us go through as we pass from one stage to another” (par.2). Everybody goes through these stages one way or another. That’s life. We see these stages in Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use.” Mrs. Johnson, the hero, changes from a quiet, unconfident, passive woman to a woman who at the end of the story finally stands up for herself. She changed because of the situation and people that were placed in front of her. Mrs. Johnson begins the story “Everyday Use” as unconfident and passive. Her oldest daughter Dee is coming home for a visit and she doesn’t believe Dee will appreciate all that she is. She doesn’t seem to think much of herself. She describes herself as “a larger big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands” (Walker par.5). Her words make it seem as if it is a bad thing to be sturdy. Mrs. Johnson is timid. She...
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...to anyone who reads it. He takes the key principles or the foundations to understanding literature, and simplifies them to be understandable to a teenager. He includes many references to pop culture which further entices his readers. The purpose of “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” is to encourage teenagers to take an interest in literature. This book helped me interpret “Araby” written by James Joyce. You can apply the skills from chapter one (Hero’s Journey) to the story “Araby”. The hero’s journey is evident in “Araby” because it helps the reader see the moral of the story, materialistic goals will never fulfill a person, and makes this clear through the stated quest (to buy something from the Araby bazaar), the way the story ends and the slowly revealed true reason of the stated quest....
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...Williams 12 April. 2016 Everyday Use When I was growing up I was pretty timid and never really stood up for myself. Now as an adult I’m bumtious and will always get my point across. You would never recognize me from that little kid I used to be. This change I went through wasn’t a choice, rather, a necessity as Herbert Spencer said “survival of the fittest” I changed because I had to. Everyone goes through some form of change. Someone may start a certain way then end up living their lives another way accordingly to the paths they chose to follow. The path I have taken taught me to be assertive and make people take notice of me. People are all traveling down their own roads growing and changing along the way. Joseph Campbell composed “The Hero’s Journey” to glorify...
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...Publishing, 2006. Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 30 Oct. 2015. Betha offers a critical view of the short story “A Worn Path”, she provides a description of Phoenix Jackson, who is the main character of the short story. She provides a list of difficulties that Phoenix Jackson encounters while doing her journey. Betha describes Phoenix as a woman that has not coat. She gives the interpretations that she has about this story, and along with other critics she describes the historical importance of Phoenix Jackson in the short story “A Worn Path”. She mentions perseverance in the way she describes the attitude Phoenix has towards the difficulties she encounters in her path. Additionally, she mentions other difficulties that Phoenix encounters during her life: Racism, poverty, slavery and many others. These stones that she found during her path were obstacles that gave her...
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...radi An analysis of storytelling and Joseph Campbell’s universal themes and their role in animated films. Theodore Hicks Word count: 1,711 Feedback: quite broad terms. Where there is some analysis it is very short and this needs developing further. Much of this is down to Analysis, Argument There is some analysis here but it is very limited. ON the whole you are describing events and stories in animation in quite broad terms. Where there is some analysis it is very short and this needs developing further. Much of this is down to your choice of question. If you had picked a couple of Disney/Pixar films and analysed them in more detail in relation to Campbell, your essay would have been more focused. Outlining this narrowing in the question will help with this, as reading the essay, this is where the topic really lies. You need to be able to show Campbell’s theories working across more than one film for it to be a successful piece of analysis at this stage, and in doing so, it will help you reach a central argument about the use of Campbell’s theories in discussing these films – at the moment this doesn’t happen. This is the section you need to work on the most, to increase your word count and extend the overall discussion. Structure, communication, referencing/bibliography The structure is generally ok, with an introduction, and a conclusion. You need to work on some of the in between sections as the essay jumps between ideas of outlining theories, linking some...
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...written in a culture’s story. Many of these explanations have passed into myths and legends, stored forever in the heroic epics of lore. They follow similar patterns that reverberate throughout the ages and across cultures. These archetypes help us to reflect on our own experience and sojourn here on Earth. As Erich Fromm stated: “Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” In his chapter on Mythic and Archetypal Criticism, Bruce W. Young explains how Carl Jung had a similar idea. Paraphrased, Jung believed that archetypes, or patterns in myths and legend, have distinctive character, something akin to a primordial figure. He postulates that as we study these archetypes or myths, “it is as though chords in us were struck” and we “feel a sense of realease” (Cowles 64). In short, Jung believes that myths help us resolve issues in our own life by experiencing the dreams, aspirations and answers found in myths. Humanity as a whole has similar dreams, aspirations, experiences and problems. Every human wishes to be prosperous, healthy, loved and confident. When we understand the power archetypes have, we can use it along with other aspects of mythic and archetypal criticism to understand our own heroic journey by observing the journey of our protagonist in...
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...Journeys Defined In the article, “A Practical Guide to Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, Christopher Vogler argues that every type of journey has a cycle, “that is universal, occurring in every culture, in every time; it is as infinitely varied as the human race itself; and yet its basic form remains the same, an incredibly tenacious set of elements repetition from the deepest reaches of the mind of man” (Vogler 1). The idea of, “a Hero with a Thousand Faces” is based off of perspective and an individual relating to a book or movie to their own lives. The complexity of Vogler’s journey cycle doesn’t seem to describe a mental journey but only the physical journey a Hero in story would take. Even though his “formula” of journey can vary, there are certain steps that always occur. Every journey needs to have a purpose or starting point, such as wanting to succeed in...
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...“Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.” This quote, said by the motivational speaker Les Brown, can very well be applied the children’s story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The Very Hungry Caterpillar was written by the American designer and illustrator Eric Carle. The title of this book is very self-explanatory. It tells the story of a caterpillar who is just what the title says, very hungry. When looking through the archetypal lens, an individual who is reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar will discover that when there is a struggle of conflict,one must keep fighting to become successful. While The Very Hungry...
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...Javed S. Ali Professor Miller GNHU-285 15 April 2015 Reflection Paper #3: Hero’s Journey In Greek Mythology, stories often seem to fit a certain pattern known as the Hero’s Journey Structure, which chronologically describes the journey of a specific archetype known as the Hero. Within this structure, there are twelve stages: The Ordinary World wherein the everyday world of the hero is described and some sort of stress is developed; The Call to Adventure wherein the tension is further strained by external pressures; Refusal of the Call wherein the hero attempts to turn down the adventure or another character might describe the incoming danger; Meeting with the Mentor wherein the hero receives counseling, training, or weapons and gear necessary...
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...In his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell explains the structures of many hero-based myths, using a common pattern shared throughout known as the monomyth, or the hero’s journey, a sequence of actions that can be found in most stories. In fact, the structures of the monomyth outlined by Campbell are consistent with those of The Godfather: Part I, a 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. By taking Michael Corleone, the main character of The Godfather, and viewing him as a hero within his world, one may be able to conclude that Coppola may have employed the ideas of Campbell. Campbell’s monomyth theory consists of 17 stages that may appear at different times along the story. Nonetheless, a story may not contain all 17 stages. The Godfather contains many elements of the monomyth, however, they are found in an unusual order. DEPARTURE The first part of the adventure of the hero, as seen in Campbell’s book, is Departure. This is the initial frail state before the hero’s transformation begins. The hero is sympathetically introduced to the audience. The hero’s situation and dilemma can already be noticed and we can see that he is living some kind of polarity which is pulling him in different directions and causing him stress. In this chapter, there are many stages that a hero must go through....
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...The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, is set in West Florida during the Harlem Renaissance in the early 1900s, and tells the story of Janie Crawford, an African American girl growing up in the care of her grandmother, Nanny. As a young teenager, Janie has a moment of enlightenment underneath a blossoming pear tree. As she is enveloped in the beauty of the tree and in her own thoughts, she sees a local boy on the other side of her fence, and on a whim, goes up and kisses him. Nanny, witnessing this event, calls her into their house and explains to her that she is becoming a young woman and will need to be married off. Shortly after, Janie is married to Logan Killicks, a much older, but financially stable man. Hating how he treats her and forces her to work, Janie leaves Logan for a man named Joe Starks, who Janie is married to for nearly 20 years. Joe progressively gets more and more protective and controlling of Janie, and...
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