Heroic Monomyth
A letter to my Son
My Dearest son, Tristan, As you are growing older, I have noticed your fascination with superheroes and their role in the world today. As you begin your own adventures and explorations, I felt that it would be necessary for you to understand the path of heroism and the theory developed by the 1950 author, Joseph Campbell in his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Someday, later in your life, you will look back and be able to follow your own exploits, comparably to those similar guidelines that every hero must confront as observed by Campbell. It is only a few weeks until the opening of this century’s greatest super hero, Superman, and his tale is very relevant to the term coined by Joseph Campbell as, “The Heroic Monomyth”. (Oracle) In order for you to better understand the Monomyth cycle, as designed by Joseph Campbell, the conflicts of Superman will be presented as the hero for your instruction. The first stage of the Monomyth theory is the Departure followed by several phases that the hero confronts as his call to duty begins. For Superman his Departure begins as his home world of Krypton is destroyed …show more content…
We had been ambushed by a large number of entrenched combatants that used mortar rounds and effective machine gun fire to pin down our forces. The Iron Chef and I moved into a parcel of farm land that sat below the enemies view, yet we could hear the snap and feel the wind of the enemy fire whizzing across our heads and shoulders as if there was some sort of lead wall threatening to prostrate us to the ground for eternity. As we began to work our way into a position to effect the enemy combatants, a rocket struck one of our vehicles about two hundred meters to our immediate front, destroying the truck and injuring the occupants, how seriously, we did not know but we had to work our way to their location, provide them cover and get them to
My Dearest son, Tristan, As you are growing older, I have noticed your fascination with superheroes and their role in the world today. As you begin your own adventures and explorations, I felt that it would be necessary for you to understand the path of heroism and the theory developed by the 1950 author, Joseph Campbell in his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Someday, later in your life, you will look back and be able to follow your own exploits, comparably to those similar guidelines that every hero must confront as observed by Campbell. It is only a few weeks until the opening of this century’s greatest super hero, Superman, and his tale is very relevant to the term coined by Joseph Campbell as, “The Heroic Monomyth”. (Oracle) In order for you to better understand the Monomyth cycle, as designed by Joseph Campbell, the conflicts of Superman will be presented as the hero for your instruction. The first stage of the Monomyth theory is the Departure followed by several phases that the hero confronts as his call to duty begins. For Superman his Departure begins as his home world of Krypton is destroyed …show more content…
We had been ambushed by a large number of entrenched combatants that used mortar rounds and effective machine gun fire to pin down our forces. The Iron Chef and I moved into a parcel of farm land that sat below the enemies view, yet we could hear the snap and feel the wind of the enemy fire whizzing across our heads and shoulders as if there was some sort of lead wall threatening to prostrate us to the ground for eternity. As we began to work our way into a position to effect the enemy combatants, a rocket struck one of our vehicles about two hundred meters to our immediate front, destroying the truck and injuring the occupants, how seriously, we did not know but we had to work our way to their location, provide them cover and get them to