In this article the writer Jessica Pierce explains what she calls The Hero Cycle. Ms. Pierce uses the basics of Ploato’s Triparite Soul Theory as well as E. R. Dodds’s Shame and Guilt Society Theory to suppoort what she calls The Hero Cycle. With in the hero Cycle she has added the Grace and Desire lines. The main idea is that both Parzival and Gawan as well as any hero must choose to cross thru the the generic phases in persuit of reaching their claim as the Hero. These phases include a series of situations and choices which either place them in the guilt or shame society’s while battling their internal pulls of logigic or reason, spirited or emotional , and bodily appetite or desire. It is the ways in which the character handles each of