Hero's Journey Analysis

Have you ever noticed that all heroes do the same things? They all leave the ordinary world, conquer the difficulties, and win the battles. This is a pattern called Hero’s Journey, which introduced by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, the main character Bella is going through the hero’s journey. The first stage is the call to adventure; this stage sets the story rolling by obstructing the happiness of the hero’s ordinary world, presenting a challenge or quest that must be undertaken. In the beginning of the movie, Belle is living happily with her father in the “ordinary world”; one day, Belle’s father Maurice and his horse Phillipe get lost in the forest when they are in their
The stage of the road of trials is a series of tests, tasks or challenges that the hero must undergo to prepare for the final boom. The movie demonstrates the road of trials by letting Belle teaches the Beast manners, dance, and how to be a gentleman. Unlike other hero's harsh trials, Belle’s trail is more about the development of feeling which she has on the Beast. The following stage is meeting with the goddess, where the hero experiences a love. Belle falls in love with the Beast when he saved her from the attack of wolves and showed her his extensive library, however Belle doesn’t aware that she loves the
The first stage she is absent is belly of the whale; the movie didn’t clearly show Belle’s last separation from the ordinary world. After Belle crossing the first threshold, she is enter the stage of road of trials right away. The next missing stage is atonement with the father. Even Maurice is Belle’s father, he doesn't represent a father figure with significant power, and Belle doesn’t initiated her ultimate power to against the father figure. The last but not least she missed in the hero’s journey is refusal of return. At the end of the movie, Belle seen like she will living with the Beast in the castle, however the movie didn’t specifically say that Belle refuse to return to the ordinary