Monomyth - Joseph Campbell

The Monomyth (often referred to as "the hero's journey") is a description of a basic pattern found in many narratives from around the world. This universal pattern was described by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949). A noted scholar of novelist James Joyce, Campbell borrowed the term monomyth from Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Campbell's insight was that important myths from around the world which have survived for thousands of years, all share a fundamental structure.

In a well-known quote from the introduction to The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell wrote:
? A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.?

The monomyth has influenced a number of artists, musicians, poets, and filmmakers, including Bob Dylan and George Lucas. Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead had long noted Campbell's influence and agreed to participate in a seminar with him in 1986 entitled From Ritual to Rapture.

Campbell's work has been consciously applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists, for example, in creating screenplays for movies. The best known is perhaps George Lucas, who has acknowledged a debt to Campbell regarding both the original Star Wars trilogy and its prequels.

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[GranthamStreet]

I like the video very much. I'm not a fan of the added music though. Unecessary.

[TaylorReynolds221]

Joseph Campbell is a fantastic leader. He is an inspiration to all of us. Have any of you seen the documentary on him Finding Joe? It looks into the hero's journey. If we all pursue our dreams there is nothing we can't accomplish. findingjoethemoviedotcom/

[myfanniejigglesaboot]

look at the matrix. in the second, neo risked saving zion by choosing instead to go after trinity on the hope that he'd somehow be able to save both. he wanted life with trinity more than being the savior, but in the end of the series trinity dies, neo is all fucked up, has nothing left to lose and very easily offers his life up to save zion and the matrix. same thing with hamlet. ALL the great hero stories are tragedies for the hero characters and comedies for the rest of the worlds they save

[myfanniejigglesaboot]

not really, but okay. i'd say the last phase is really the freedom to die. look at the story of jonah which is really the archetypal heroes journey. you're a slave, you have to do your part and then only after that you might have the freedom to choose what you really want. most hero types are slaves and at the end of their journey they enter into a state of GREAT disillusionment and just want to put it all behind them. sometimes the disillusionment even comes before the end

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[TheNoGoodnick]

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