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The Hero With A Thousand Faces Analysis
In the illustration of Joseph Campbell's, "the hero with a thousand faces", he does make a good and compelling discussion on how his story explains how a individual goes through trails and tributations of the hero's journey. In an example from each chapters, "The call to adventure", the hero or individual gets the call to start a relationship with the new, unsuspected world. This is how many of the hero's journeys start. The hero accepting this call will into a new unknown area,which he will face many more thresholds and stops. The call is similar to when us as humans hear about something new to do.It may either affect our environment we live in, or just take us out of our comfort zone, it's also similar to when we play a video game, and when
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