Monomyth In Plato's Allegory Of The Cave
Life passes by while they watch. they can’t move, but that is life. Normal life, normal realty, until something, or someone rips it all away. with these events being similar to plato’s Allegory of the cave, it is a were thought to think a hero exists. Plato’s Allegory of the cave does, in fact, have a hero because it follows the Hero’s Journey.
Joseph Campbell, born in 1904 and died 1987, was most famous for his theory of “Monomyth”. In all of Campbell’s study, he looked at what myths, from different cultures, had in common instead of looking for the differences. The American professor discovered a single story that every culture uses to pass along information, tradition, and worldly perception. Monomyth is a single myth told in a thousand ways with a hero that has a thousand different faces. The concept was also referred to as the Hero’s journey. …show more content…
When the freed prisoner was pulled “...suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness?” The hero, or the freed prisoner, would have transformed with the knowledge that the special world exists. Thus, the freed prisoner not being able to adjust to home, or the ordinary world. Socrates believed that the journey to the special world was to be interpreted as the “...ascent of the soul into the intellectual world…”, in his opinion.
In the end, the Hero’s Journey was the main structure for the Allegory of the cave with the freed prisoner being the hero. He follows all of the steps, or stages, that joseph campbell’s model portrays. Imagine the feeling of having a normal life, but then being ripped out of that normal existants. Then shown that the “normal” you lived was just a shadow of the true existence. Would you risk going back to free the others, or live in the real world as you know
Joseph Campbell, born in 1904 and died 1987, was most famous for his theory of “Monomyth”. In all of Campbell’s study, he looked at what myths, from different cultures, had in common instead of looking for the differences. The American professor discovered a single story that every culture uses to pass along information, tradition, and worldly perception. Monomyth is a single myth told in a thousand ways with a hero that has a thousand different faces. The concept was also referred to as the Hero’s journey. …show more content…
When the freed prisoner was pulled “...suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness?” The hero, or the freed prisoner, would have transformed with the knowledge that the special world exists. Thus, the freed prisoner not being able to adjust to home, or the ordinary world. Socrates believed that the journey to the special world was to be interpreted as the “...ascent of the soul into the intellectual world…”, in his opinion.
In the end, the Hero’s Journey was the main structure for the Allegory of the cave with the freed prisoner being the hero. He follows all of the steps, or stages, that joseph campbell’s model portrays. Imagine the feeling of having a normal life, but then being ripped out of that normal existants. Then shown that the “normal” you lived was just a shadow of the true existence. Would you risk going back to free the others, or live in the real world as you know