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Narnia Hero's Journey Analysis

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We will analyse "The Cronicles of Narnia" to give examples for each stage of Hero's Journey. There are three movies in "The Cronicles of Narnia": "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", "Prience Caspian" and "The Voyage of The Dawn Treader". There are three different movies but when we analyse them one by one, we will see that there are so many similar points among them. The 12 Stage of The Hero's Journey will show us how their themes are the same.

The first movie is "The Cronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe". We will analyse it according to 12 Stage's of The Hero's Journey and we will give examples from movie for each stage that we can see the Hero's or Heroes' journey in the movie.
The first stage was "Ordinary World" in the Hero's Journey. This stage was where the Hero's exists before his story begins and it was the Hero's everday life.
When we look at the first movie "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe", it begins in England where …show more content…

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