Mistress Of Spices Monomyth
The hero Returns to the Ordinary World, but the journey is meaningless unless she brings back some Elixir, treasure, or lesson from the Special World. Sometimes the elixir is treasure won on the quest, but it may be love, freedom, wisdom, or the knowledge that the Special World exists and can be survived. In search of earthly paradise Tilo and Raven crossed a tollbooth she heard about the destruction of the earthquake caused in Oakland. Looking into the water she recollects the destruction caused by her in the village during her childhood. She feels the responsibility and decides to go back to Oakland instead of with Raven. In the end she realizes her freedom should help people.
The Mistress of Spices is an aesthetically sophisticated, metaphysically profound novel as well as adventurous masterpiece, among other reasons, not because it merely borrows the monomyth’s superficial plot structure, but because it likewise incorporates the monomyth’s theme of transcendence. It develops this theme by fantastically elaborating the central death-and-rebirth motif that reinforces this theme in the monomyth itself while similarly replicating the monomyth’s fractal pattern-within-pattern internal structure—which is also the structure of that matrix of thought, proceeding through transcendence, that leads to enlightenment and that the monomyth symbolizes—in its own internal structures of …show more content…
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1949. Print. Bollingen Series XVII.
2. —. The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion. Novato: New World Library, 1986. Print.
3. —. The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987. Ed. Antony Van Couvering. Novato: New World Library, 1997. Print.
4. —. Myths to Live By. New York: Penguin Compass, 1972. Print.
5. Jung, Carl. G. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. 1959. Trans. R. F. C. Hull. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1968. Print. Bollingen Series
The Mistress of Spices is an aesthetically sophisticated, metaphysically profound novel as well as adventurous masterpiece, among other reasons, not because it merely borrows the monomyth’s superficial plot structure, but because it likewise incorporates the monomyth’s theme of transcendence. It develops this theme by fantastically elaborating the central death-and-rebirth motif that reinforces this theme in the monomyth itself while similarly replicating the monomyth’s fractal pattern-within-pattern internal structure—which is also the structure of that matrix of thought, proceeding through transcendence, that leads to enlightenment and that the monomyth symbolizes—in its own internal structures of …show more content…
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1949. Print. Bollingen Series XVII.
2. —. The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion. Novato: New World Library, 1986. Print.
3. —. The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987. Ed. Antony Van Couvering. Novato: New World Library, 1997. Print.
4. —. Myths to Live By. New York: Penguin Compass, 1972. Print.
5. Jung, Carl. G. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. 1959. Trans. R. F. C. Hull. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1968. Print. Bollingen Series