Joseph Campbell's Mono Myth

There comes a time in everyone's life when they ask themselves the question, “Is there something bigger out there for me?” One won’t know the answer to this question until they venture out into the great beyond and discover it for themselves. It means having to step out of your comfort zone into a whole new world you’ve never experienced before and going on an adventure of self-discovery to find what’s really out there for you. Joseph Campbell’s mono-myth consists of six stages, call to adventure, threshold, challenges and temptation, revelation, atonement, and return. Every story created follows this pattern and one’s life is their own story. Reality also follows Campbell’s pattern. There is a point in everyone’s life where it’s plain and something or someone comes along to change it. For example, the movie Aladdin portrays the main character, Aladdin, as being a street rat, having no home or money. His call to adventure is when Jafar comes to him in disguise and asks him to retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. This is where his threshold occurs, entering an unknown world of danger and challenges. Every hero’s journey needs supernatural aid, in this story, it is the Genie, Abu, and the magic carpet. The abyss is when Jafar nearly has him killed by drowning him. After Aladdin is rescued by Genie and they defeat Jafar, his transformation occurs. Aladdin grows as a character

One can wake up to the ordinary life they’ve always known only to be called to their own adventure. It could be anything as small as public speaking to saving the country from a North Korean invasion like in the movie Red Dawn. There is always a point where the hero struggles and prevails in their own challenges and temptations. There is a part where they fall so low there is a slim to none chance of recovery, it is known as the abyss, only to be reborn into a better, wiser version of