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    a Thousand Faces‚ Joseph Campbell convey the manifestation of a hero’s journey. The Journey consists of a series of specific steps‚ laid out by Campbell one by one. Campbell suggest that heroes develop in stages and that individual prepare themselves for heroism through a series of challenges that they overcome. Does Campbell succeed at making this argument? Campbell begins the story with explaining how all hero stories are exactly the same‚ which is a monomyth. Joseph Campbell explains that a monomyth

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    with Bill Moyers‚ Joseph Campbell answered philosophical and almost spiritual questions through discussing mythology. At first‚ I genuinely thought he was lunatic but‚ there was something about his words that were relatable and fundamental. The discussion of Campbell’s book‚ The Hero with a Thousand Faces‚ exhibited a pattern in all heroes throughout time and cultures. Accompanied by examples from famous pieces like Star Wars‚ Campbell revealed a hero that we all relate to. Campbell mentioned that

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    Interpretations of Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey ____________________________________________________________ The Hero’s Journey: 1. Heroes are introduced in the ORDINARY WORLD‚ where 2. they receive the CALL TO ADVENTURE. 3. They are RELUCTANT at first or REFUSE THE CALL‚ but 4. are encouraged by a MENTOR to 5. CROSS THE FIRST THRESHOLD and enter the Special World‚ where 6. they encounter TESTS‚ ALLIES‚ AND ENEMIES. 7. They APPROACH THE INMOST CAVE‚ crossing a second threshold 8. where

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    Early in the The Hero With A Thousand Faces‚ Joseph Campbell boldly announces‚ “the very dreams that blister sleep‚ boil up from the basic‚ magic ring of myth” (p. 11). Campbell argues that myth serves to suffice for some psychological deficiencies and tribulations in the average human life. Furthermore‚ dreams offer a revelation of what is haunting the unconscious mind of an individual‚ with far less attention to the collective troubles of humankind. Campbell evaluates the contrasts of the two concepts

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    Joseph Campbell wanted to find the unifying truth among religions and storytelling across time‚ cultures and geography. According to Joseph‚ a monomyth is the theory that all myths derived from the same story (The Flood Myth) and have the same structure. As stated in The hero With A Thousand Faces this theory comes in three main stages that is known as‚ “the nuclear unit of monomyth.” The separation‚ the initiation and the return. A story in which a hero comes along and goes on a search for knowledge

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    the answer to such a simply-put‚ yet broad question usually doesn’t exceed a standard myth’s generalities. Most people will conclude that a myth is fiction and neglect to realize that the overall definition goes far beyond that. According to Joseph Campbell‚ neither a myth nor the hero’s story from within the myth is manufactured by its author; moreover‚ a myth is a collective and unconscious exploitation of the mind in which it dwells. It thrives off of representations and ideas from within the

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    3. JOSEPH CAMPBELL’S THEORY: THE MONOMYTH Joseph Campbell was born in New York 26thof March 1904 and died in Honolulu 30th of October 1987. When he was a student in the University of Columbia‚ he read some of the legends of King Arthur and found similar kinds of themes and motifs that occurred as well in the stories ofNative Americans that he had read as a child. Later in his life‚ he got acquainted with the theories of two renowned psychologists‚ Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and the literary

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    heroic journey is Odysseus from the epic poem‚ The Odyssey by Homer because he had undergone a journey that included a departure‚ initiation‚ and return.

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    Joseph Campbell’s monomyth‚ or the hero’s journey‚ is a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around the world. This widely distributed pattern was described by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).[1] An enthusiast of novelist James Joyce‚ Campbell borrowed the term monomyth from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.[2] Campbell held that numerous myths from disparate times and regions share fundamental structures and stages‚ which he summarized in The Hero with

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    have seen or heard‚ but could Herakles’ myth follow Joseph Campbell’s Hero myth list. Carl Jung defined an archetype myth or Jungian archetype as a pattern of thought that can be translated to “worldwide parallels” (“The Columbian Encyclopedia”) that the human race experiences as a culture or an individual. The myth of Herakles includes parts that compare to the Hero Archetype‚ but there are also parts that do not fit the archetype at all. Joseph Campbell’s list of myths for the common hero includes

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