The Hero's Journey Monomyth

Does the Hero’s Journey apply to all stories in the media? Joseph Campbell deduced from researching myths and legends that all stories are connected by one big circle of storytelling, the monomyth. He concluded that they all have a similar path of journey from beginning to end, success to failure, and life to death. I believe that his Hero’s Journey theory is actually correct to compare all the stories in the media to the same path, and we just don’t realize we’re watching the same story all the time. From his explanations of myth, to how he uses analogies, and how we all journey from our conscious to our unconscious. It’s all connected to the same journey and path we live on each day. In the video “Every Story is the Same” it goes into more depth on how the monomyth functions and how it’s in our everyday life and media. It is all connected and they all support each other to help ourselves and our growing society. It is also explained how …show more content…
But what is an analogy? An analogy is used to compare two like objects to clarify something in an argument. In his book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he uses them to find the missing plot hole. He uses a watch for an example to explain how here’s a watch, so there must’ve been a watchmaker to make the watch. Another example is we have the universe, so there must’ve been a God to create it all. Analogies also help us comprehend what we don’t grasp. In his book he states, “ the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet…”(Campbell 1). This may be confusing at first, but what I believe Campbell is trying to explain is that the ocean is full of flavor and life, and that a single droplet could be used to study that giant mass into a single droplet. And all this helps with seeing the Hero’s Journey in everything, we may not understand it, but atleast we can break it down to understand