Linda Seger The Ring Analysis

Being able to understand the different interpretations of what a hero is defined by, one can truly begin to understand how story structure is developed in many sorts of media. Going along with the idea of story structure, Linda Seger developed the Hero’s Myth in order to create a stable idea of how most stories are written and to establish a formula of how people enjoy stories. The 2002 Gore Verbinski movie, The Ring exhibits the aspects of Seger’s Hero myth in which all eight milestones are met throughout the movie to open the minds of the audience to more than just their own closed-minded perspectives. The milestones include the catalyst and the descent into the journey, the reluctance to leave and receiving help, and finally rock bottom and seizing the sword. Throughout the first 30 minutes of The Ring, Rachel begins her journey into discovering the truth behind the death of her niece, while also overcoming her own demons when looking at her journey as the movie’s hero. In the first scene that we see Rachel, she is an average mother, late to picking up her son because of work. This is a clear connection to the mundane person in a mundane world exemplified by Seger with her hero outline. In this mundane world, there is already an idea …show more content…
In order to understand the way story structure is established in real action, watching a popular movie like The Ring for example helps one to understand the way that people enjoy a story since the structure discussed has been in practice as early as Greek literature such as The Odyssey in the 8th century. For Seger’s Hero myth to adapt to literature written as far back as the 8th century and to work for films such as The Ring, it speaks to the depth that story structure can go and allows for more ideas to be created that will most likely follow the same structure as Seger