Category: Hero’s Journey

All literary stories have a theme. The theme is the main idea or message that the author wants the audience to take away from the story. My favorite stories read in this class were The Odyssey, Sundiata, and The Epic of Gilgamesh. I enjoyed these three epics, because I could relate to the main characters…

Based in Hero With A Thousand Faces, it explains the typical heroic tale in which a heroic protagonist sets out, goes on exciting adventures, and returns home. It is a valuable method for analyzing conventional literature through time and culture. The four stages that I have decided to write on are: Ordinary World, Call to…

Introduction: The Timeless Tale of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh significantly studied by global scholars since its discovery in the ruins of the Library of Ashurbanipal in 1853 (Dalley, 2008). It is the longest written literature in Akkadian cuneiform that regales about the protagonist, Gilgameshs adventures. This epic poem from the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, centres…

Campbell’s concept of monomyth (one myth) refers to the theory that sees all mythic narratives as variations of a single great story. The central pattern most studied by Campbell is often referred to as the Hero’s Journey and was first described in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) Joseph Campbell, discusses his theory of…

In 1949 Joseph Campbell released The Hero With a Thousand Faces, in which he outlined a monomyth called the heros journey, which would last for generations and provide a template for thousands of stories. Given how popular the heros journey has been, its worth asking why. Why do most people seem to love it so…

Introduction “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins is a captivating dystopian novel that follows the journey of Katniss Everdeen, a young girl forced to participate in a brutal televised competition. Through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s concept of the Hero’s Journey, this essay critically examines the narrative structure of “The Hunger Games” and explores how…

In most tales, there is an epic quest played out by a protagonist character. This character can be openly declared as the hero, or be a simplistic and mundane person who unintentionally takes the hero role. In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins ends up being that hero and works through a wild crusade he never consummately…

Introduction to Robinson Crusoe and its Themes The novel Robinson Crusoe is written by Daniel Defoe and was first published in the year 1719. It is about a man named Robinson Crusoe, from England who has a dream to explore the sea. Robinsons father does not agree with his dreams and wants him to live…

Bilbo Baggins is a simplistic sentimental hobbit. However, when a band of devious dwarves and a renowned wizard Gandalf the Grey, arrives at his home with a treasure map in hand, his quiet life is disrupted. Gandalf reminds Bilbo of the stories of orcs, giants, and adventurers being lured into a thrilling adventure. Shortly thereafter,…

In Thor: The Dark World, Thor develops through the Heros Journey. He starts off wanting to be the king of his fathers realm, but an attack on Asgard and the love of his life contracting an Infinity Stone teaches him otherwise. The first part of the Heros Journey starts in the heros ordinary world; in…