The Hobbit and Joseph Campbells’ Theory The Hobbit By J.R.R Tolkien has a distinctive hero who is the initially cowardly, but unexpectedly heroic, Bilbo Baggins. This story follows an unique writing structure, which makes it a monomythical story, a writing technique, used in the majority of adventure novels, depicted by Joseph Campbell in his novel, “The Hero With a Thousand Faces’’. This idea will be further expanded on later. The story successfully follows the monomythical storyline and eventually, after the titular character, Bilbo, is called to adventure, he ends up achieving his goal and claims his reward of glory and fame. Joseph Campbell describes the ‘call to adventure’ in a hero’s journey as the time that the hero is still in his homeland and has still not left on his adventure. In The Hobbit, this is when …show more content…
What such a figure represents is the benign, protecting power of destiny.” It’s fairly obvious that Bilbo’s assistance is the wizard Gandalf. In Chapter 1, Gandalf sends Bilbo on a journey and assists him throughout the majority of it. Even though Gandalf doesn’t accompany the group throughout the entire journey, he helps them accomplish their first challenges. For example, when Bilbo and his company were captured by the goblins and trolls, Gandalf uses his magical abilities to help protect Bilbo and the dwarves. Without his help, surely Bilbo and his dwarves would have died. However, Gandalf was called away abruptly after these first few challenges and Bilbo was left to fend for himself, so that he could be molded into a ‘true