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Five Subcategories Of The Hero's Journey According To The Movie Hercules

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Joseph Campbell was a well-known mythologist, who was well known for his work that covers a lot of aspects of the human experience. He is stated to believe that the monomyth of a hero’s journey can be applied to any type of literature such as movies, dreams, and so on. So in this essay I will be talking about five subcategories he talks about and comparing them to the movie Hercules.

As we already know Hercules is a movie about Zeus son Hercules that was kidnapped when he was young and turned into a half mortal and he cant return to his family until he proves to be a hero. The subcategories I will be talking about is the call to adventure, refusal of the call, supernatural aids, the road of trails, and belly of the whale.

The call of adventure in the words of Joseph Campbell is when the hero starts out in a situation of normality when information is told to them that acts like a call to head off into the unknown. This subcategory relates to my movie by in the movie Hercules by when Hercules adoptive father tells him finally that he is adopted and how they found him with the medallion of the Gods, so Hercules feels like he has to go to the temple of Zeus to talk to him. He meets Zeus but finds out that to join his family on …show more content…

This could be because of a sense of duty or obligation, fear, insecurity, also a sense of inadequacy, or any other reason that would hold the person in his or her situation. In the movie Hercules it does not seem to have any refusal to the call because Hercules feels like he belongs and is going to do anything he had to do to get to mount Olympus with his family after he has his talk with Zeus, but then we see a refusal of the call not by Hercules but by Phil when Hercules goes to find him and Phil does not believe that Hercules is the son of Zeus, so Phil does not want to train him and has no hope that Hercules can be this great hero that Hercules wants to

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