Brief Summary Of The Hero With A Thousand Faces By Joseph Campbell Monomyth

Mythology is a collection of myths about a given culture. Mythologies can tell us about the way ancient as well as modern peoples felt and behaved, their questions and beliefs. Joseph Campbell, a famous mythological scholar, writes myths and believes that the myths of every culture are different on the surface. Campbell has written a book called The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which breaks his thinking down into seventeen sections. In his thinking, Campbell also believes that all myths are essentially the same. He calls this the monomyth: “Mankind's one great story.” One example of a monomyth is something Campbell calls the Hero’s Journey. He says all mythologies contain stories of heroes, people of great courage and strength who are celebrated for their daring deeds. Campbell says
In addition, the final section of the Hero’s Journey is “the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow men”. The only boons Atalanta can bestow on her fellow men is the fact that she overcame obstacles, achieved victory, and earned some respect from her peers, the people she went against. It might be said that the myth of Atalanta does technically follow the sections of Campbell’s theory about myths, due to the fact that the in the Atalanta myth it follows the first stage of the Hero’s Journey. In Document A, it states that the hero goes “into a region of supernatural wonder,” In Atalanta in the she bear however, the last part of the myth of Atalanta is what makes that saying very true. The myth of Atalanta and the footrace serves as another example of Atalanta’s heroic journey that does follow Campbell’s theory of the Hero’s Journey. And the reason I say this is because in the first section, the hero ventures forth, and Atalanta is challenged to a footrace by suitors who want to marry