Minority Report Hero's Journey Structure

In the story “Minority Report” by Phillip K. Dick, the reader follows the struggle and journey of the main character Anderton. Anderton was the founder of precrime, an organization apart of the justice system that uses three people in a coma-like state that have insight in the future to prevent any future murders from occurring, until he is accused of being a future murder. Believing that he is being framed, Anderton sets out to prove his innocences by indirectly following the hero’s story. In the short story “Minority Report,” author Phillip K. Dick uses the hero’s journey structure to illustrate the theme that individual liberty is more important than collective security by demonstrating how the main character goes through the Call Of Adventure and Crossing The Threshold stages.

Dick uses the hero’s journey structure to illustrate the theme that individual liberty is more important than collective security by demonstrating how the main character goes through the Call Of Adventure stage. Anderton is showing Witwer the function of precrime when the machine prints him as a future murder. In the text, it says “On the card was his name. Line one — an already accused future murderer! According to the code punches, Precrime Commissioner John A. Anderton was going to kill a man — within the next week.” (Dick 4) In the quote, it explains how Anderton is being accused of committing a murder in the future. This is Call Of Adventure because before this he was in his normal day-to-day life, or the Ordinary World, until the disruption of his name being list as a future murder forces him to change his life. The Call Of Adventure stage in Anderton journey demonstrates the theme that individual liberty is more important than collective security because precrime creates a collective security for the public but Anderton is willing to start a journey to prove his innocence, even if that means destroying that