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The Hero With A Thousand Faces Summary

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In the article, “A Practical Guide to Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, Christopher Vogler argues, “that [ the cycle of a journey] is universal, occurring in every culture, in every time; it is as infinitely varied as the human race itself; and yet its basic form remains the same, an incredibly tenacious set of elements repetition from the deepest reaches of the mind of man” (Vogler 1) and is primarily represented in movies or stories. The idea of, “a Hero with a Thousand Faces” is based on perspective and a change of purpose depending on the individual. The complexity of Vogler’s journey cycle doesn’t seem to fully describe a mental journey, but only the physical journey a Hero in a story would take, other …show more content…

A physical challenge is usually tangible or you can at least see the changes and or growth such as a trip. A personal example of physical journey was when I flew from Southern California to New Jersey to meet my girlfriend’s family during the Christmas holiday for the very first time. This journey resulted in me flying in a plane for the very first time, which happened to be a six-hour red eye flight in which I was unable to sleep, giving a unsteady beginning to the journey. A mental journey is usually not visible like a physical journey, and it is when an individual goes into their own unconscious to better learn about themselves and change their self for the better. For example, when someone meditates, that person is silencing the outside world and as stated above inviting themselves into their unconscious and believing in themselves. An example of both a physical and mental journey is when someone injures themselves, like I did with my shoulder. The physical journey was having to put my shoulder in a sling and go through physical therapy, but it turned into a mental journey when I had to motivate myself to complete my physical therapy and then go back to playing sports and lifting at the

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The Hero’s Journey Joseph Campbell has come up with this idea that there is one three-stage formula- in which he calls the “Hero’s Journey”. This formula is the structure of the story, and is the basic form or shape of something. Most houses have four walls and a roof, they all look slightly different on the outside, but they mostly share this basic structure. Campbell says that although most stories are different on the outside, stories are almost always structured around these three stages. The first stage is when the hero leaves their everyday world and enters into another world, the second stage talks about when the hero is challenged by opposing forces, a series of test they must pass, and whether or not a victory is won.

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“The Hero’s Journey Defined” is an article, written by Joseph Campbell, that explains the hero’s journey and eat part of the journey. The article starts off by briefly telling what happens in a Journey, and what the journey is about. The article then goes on to explain each part of the journey such as, call to adventure, departure, initiation, and lastly returning from an adventure. Each section thoroughly go into the topic and explains how each part is acted out and gives examples of each part. The first big idea in the article is departure, this helps define an adventure because every adventure of a hero has some sort of call that leads them to leave.

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Sissel supplied for a Hero’s Journey Archetypes, there are many stages of the hero’s journey. Some of those stages are; Call to Adventure, Refusal of the call, Supernatural Aid, The Crossing of the First Threshold, The Belly of the Whale. Campbell, Joseph. " A Hero's Journey Archetype." Google Docs.

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Fascinated by mythology, author Joseph Campbell studied the myth. He created the well-known title that virtually all myths, and roughly other story types, have similar ideas and the heroes' ventures are practically identical in their arrangement. The altered phases of voyage recognized to have originated to be called the "hero's journey." Homer shows Odysseus’s hero’s journey, “Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief” shows Percy’s hero’s journey. The Obstacle, mentor or the shape shifter are the archetypes that are being compared.

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