The Labyrinth Hero's Journey

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A hero or a heroine may seem like they can all face the obstacles that they will go through throughout their journey, but that journey won’t be complete if he or she doesn’t meet people along the way that could help her or give her a harder time in accomplishing his or her goal. This movie falls on the fantasy genre because Sarah met strange and magical characters like the goblins, Hoggle, Sir Didymus, Jareth the Goblin King, and Ludo whom she met in the movie Labyrinth. Some might even point out that Labyrinth can fall into fairytale subgenre, and that is very likely with the components that the movie had in Sarah’s adventure to the castle (Labyrinth) (“Fairy Tale”).
On the start of the movie where Sarah was telling Toby a story, they showed
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Sarah met Ludo when she was walking through the labyrinth after Hoggle cowardly ran away after hearing Ludo’s growls. Ludo has a special kind of magic that seemed like whenever he growls, he can get the rocks to help them or himself, like the time Sarah just met him. He had rocks roll over to Sarah’s feet to throw at the goblins who were provoking him. Also, when the bridge over the bog of eternal stench fell down, he had the rocks make a bridge for them to cross safely across the bog. Right around the end of the movie, the rocks helped them to get past through the goblin army that Jareth sent to stop them from getting to the castle where he resides in. Ludo’s ability helped them along the way and it made their journey together easier than if they didn’t have him around. Jareth the Goblin King was first shown as an owl then he transforms to his human form to talk to Sarah. He then shows up throughout Sarah’s journey in the labyrinth, and one time with Hoggle to give him the fruit for Sarah that would make her forget everything. When Sarah finally arrives at the castle, he goes through the labyrinth of stairs in the castle and watch as Sarah tried to chase her baby brother who’s crawling around the labyrinth. During those appearances of his, crystal balls mystically shows up in his hands and all of them changes into something …show more content…
When she took a bite, she “fell asleep” and strangely went into a dream where “all that she wanted” were all there, at least that’s what Jareth thought when he was trying to make her give up in pursuing her way towards the castle. Jareth, her, and the other masked people were in what seems like a ball and there was dancing and Jareth singing “As The World Falls Down” as they dance in the ballroom filled with people. Fairytales also usually have mystical creatures like dwarves, like Hoggle, and goblins, and also magic and enchantments, which mostly came from Jareth when he uses his crystal balls to transform them into different things and looks through them as if it’s some kind of a security camera following Sarah in the labyrinth. The magic and the different kind of creatures, together with the dream of Sarah and Jareth dancing with each other, had made this movie fit the fairytale sub genre quite easily. Also, having a moral to the story on about how much family really matters also helps it to fit into the sub genre(Labyrinth) (“Fairy

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