The Hero's Journey In Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Starting off with Campbell’s first stage “The Call to Adventure”, Orwell, Allende, and Kafka illustrate this stage in their literary works. The call to adventure focuses on the beginning of the hero’s journey. The character receives some form of information which initiates the instinct to act upon what they hear. For example, the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four occurs in a time period of where the state-government and Big Brother become the only things that really matter. The protagonist Winston Smith believes against the ideology of Big Brother but fears to display his honest opinion and considers himself like no other. He then encounters a woman, Julia. When she first sees Winston, she hands him a note. This note triggers Winston’s actions revolving

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