Monomyth In The Hobbit

In the contexts of the Monomyth, Bilbo and his journey in the book The Hobbit (1937) can be compared to Moana’s journey in the film Moana (2016). J.R.R. Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit, tells the story of Bilbo’s journey to the Lonely Mountain with Gandalf and thirteen dwarves. Moana, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, tells the story of Moana’s journey to return the Heart of Te Fiti. The Monomyth, first coined by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), is a storytelling archetype with many points, but three key aspects of the structure include the threshold/threshold guardians, the mentor, and atonement. In comparing the two protagonists of the stories, within the Monomyth it can be understood that the two stories are similar given that they both started as people unable to do a skill, who in turn throughout their journey became the hero with that newly found skill.
The threshold aspect of the Monomyth can be defined as the transformation into the start of the journey ahead. The beginning of transforming into who they need to be. The threshold guardians are defined as the ones who try to stop the protagonist from crossing the threshold, the ones who try to stop them from going on the …show more content…
The atonement for Bilbo was being able to become a burglar, he wasn’t one before his journey, but he needed to become one in order to go to Lonely Mountain and finish his adventure. Moana’s atonement was being able to be a leader for her people. Before the journey, she wasn’t able to lead her people, she was too distracted by going out beyond the reef, so when she finished her journey she was able to become the leader that her people needed. The connection between the two stories in means of the atonement is that both characters weren’t able to be what they needed to be, but because of the journey they were able to become