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    The Departure

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    Khelil Beidoun 11 February 2013 Cochin Sec. 15922 English 101 THE DEPARTURE The Hero With A Thousand Faces‚ written by Joseph Campbell describes the process or outline of “The Heroes Journey.” In other words‚ the sequence of events a hero/heroine must experience before completion of their adventure. The call to adventure‚ refusal of the call‚ supernatural aid‚ crossing of the first threshold‚ and the belly of the wale; describe the beginning of a hero’s adventure known as “The Departure

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    Life of Pi

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    call‚ meeting with the mentor‚ crossing the threshold‚ tests allies and enemies‚ approach‚ the ordeal‚ the reward‚ the road back‚ the resurrection‚ and the return with the elixir. - The hero’s journey is the work of Carl Jung‚ but applied by Joseph Campbell. - In the ordinary world‚ we meet the hero. The call to adventure is when the hero is needed for something. Refusal to the call is when the hero usually refuses to accept the call to adventure. Meeting the mentor is when the hero meets someone

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    Joseph Campbell is the author of “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”‚ a book in which he explains the concept of what is a “Hero’s Journey”. This is also called monomyth‚ he proposes that all myths‚ storys around the world follow the same pattern. Campbells puts this monomyth in a template or outline based on tree steps: Departure‚ Initiation and return. But‚ they can also be more deglosed in more steps: Call to adventure‚ Assistance‚ Departure‚ Trials‚ Approach‚ Crisis‚ Treasure‚ Result‚ Return‚ Life

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    Dragon Archetype

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    the Bible‚ that we are the masters. For hunting people‚ the animal is superior” (Campbell 176). Also‚ the ancient Chinese would use dragons in their mythological stories to symbolize the changing of seasons. “In Chinese mythology‚ the Azure dragon would symbolize spring and bring thunderstorms. The Azure dragon also represented the end of hibernation” (Sokolove 3). In Babylonian mythology‚ they are

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    the monomyth. In ‘a hero with a thousand faces’‚ Joseph Campbell’s pointed out the seventeen stages an archetypal hero must go through. Famous examples of movies based upon these stages are ‘the Matrix and ‘Star Wars’. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone is also a monomyth since is utilises many if not most of the stages of monomyth that a lot of myths also used. There are three major phases to the stories in mythology‚ based on Joseph Campbell’s work and documented in The Hero with a

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    The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a non-fiction novel written by Joseph Campbell. The book explains Campbell’s 17 steps of a hero. Campbell believed that all heroes went through these steps through out there journey. Many books emphasize and prove his theory correct‚ but these were some pieces that came to mind were the epic of Gilgamesh‚ Beowulf‚ and Things Fall Apart. In these pieces of literature we deal with two types of heroes. There is the tragic hero such as Okonkwo in the book Things Fall

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    The Hero’s Journey Defined is an article written and analyzed by Anthony Ubelhor. The article explains many things about a hero‚ characteristics and what they encounter in their journey. It describes many qualities a hero should have‚ and the many challenges they face‚ and how they handle them. It explains in detail‚ how the hero is called for the quest‚ and then the tasks they do to fulfill their mission. The article mentions that a hero is part of a cause bigger than himself‚ and they are supposed

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    it! I’m sorry! I saw. I’m sorry! I’m sorry to say I saw! (Joyce 575) Few decades later‚ Joseph Campbell‚ a grad student at the time‚ writes a book on the Monomyth‚ The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In his first work that utilizes the monomyth‚ Joseph Campbell draws “how these repetitive universal myths are evident in our stories‚ in our lives and in our souls.” (“Monomyth.org”) In this novel‚ Campbell presents the notion of “A Hero’s Journey‚” or the concept that every story has the same basic

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    Mythology: An Overview Though there are many different definitions for myth‚ the basic idea is that myths are stories that have been passed down in a traditional way‚ over many generations about divine beings and heroes‚ and they are linked to spiritual and/or religious life of a society. Myths are used to explain the universe and society beginnings (creation myths and founding myths)‚ unexplainable natural phenomena‚ and anything else we can’t explain in a simple way. Myths are very closely connected

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    Saitana Hero's Journey

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    bleakly average when compared to all the chiseled and flashy heroes that are his partners in the Heroes Association. Characters that shoot lasers‚ have telekinetic powers‚ or superhuman powers. The hero Saitama follows the monomyth laid out by Joseph Campbell as the Hero’s Journey. The hero’s journey being a series of stages almost all heroes follow. The powerless yet overpowered Saitama‚ in One Punch Man‚ goes on his own hero journey in an unusual method.

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