Examples Of Archetypal Quest In The Hobbit

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In chapter five of the “Hobbit” Tolkien demonstrates the Archetypal Quest when Bilbo awoke in the darkness alone, he must depend on himself if he wants any chance of finding his way out. “Just imagine his fright! He could hear nothing, see nothing and he could feel nothing except the stone on the floor.” Bilbo only let these thoughts cross his mind for a moment before he “got up and groped about on all fours, till he touched the wall of the tunnel.” This event is where we begin to see the new hobbit bilbo is becoming. Before going on this Journey Biblo would have stayed in his state of fright and would only be thinking “I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing.” But by being on this expedition