Compare And Contrast The Theory Of Monomyth And The Hero's Quest

In order to understand why the monomyth and the hero’s quest are both so pivotal to understanding the human condition you have to be able to understand what it is that causes humans to act the way that they do. You have to learn to understand that there is a journey that you have to complete no matter what the situation is. Joseph Campbell’s the theory of monomyth and the hero’s quest is important to understanding the human condition. Joseph Campbell author of The hero with a thousand faces believes that you can find a hero’s quest in almost all of the movies and books that have been published as well as in the real world. Campbell’s argument is, that his belief of a hero’s quest transfers over into everyday life regardless of the location of the story. He uses

In The hero with a thousand faces, Campbell uses the word myth in an untraditional sense. In the movie about Campbell he tells a radio interviewer who stated that myths are lies “No, myths are metaphors” (Balnicke, The Hero’s Journey). Knowing that this is how Campbell uses myth helps you to understand why he tells all these stories. Campbell describes a mythology as a “system of affect-symbols, signs evoking and directing psychic energies. It is more like an affective art work than a scientific proposition." (Balnicke, The Hero’s journey). This helps us understand why in the hero with a thousand faces, Campbell focuses on the mythological stories to show the importance of the Monomyth and hero’s quest and how it is important to understanding the human condition. Campbell proposes that no matter what fairy-tail is being dissected in the end it will always be