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In the Christopher Nolan 2008 movie, The Dark Night, the audience and film analysis question if the character Batman is considered morally ambiguous. I believe he is morally ambiguous as his actions even out the scale of good and evil in the character. Tension is often within characters who are morally ambiguous as they question if their darker side will overcome the good and if it does, will this effect their quest for justice. These characters evoke sympathy in the audience as they deal with…

The young American girl who we are later introduced to as Daisy Miller and we see that she doesn 't act as a normal girl of her time period. She yearns for acceptance into society on her own terms, something which is alien to the world of women. Daisy is described in her initial meeting with Winterbourne as a flirt which is a sign of an emerging animus. The animus represents movement and without an active animus a hero cannot move. Daisy 's call to adventure came when her father sent her, her…

In 1949 Joseph Campbell published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. His book explains what he called the hero’s journey or monomyth. The hero’s journey is the pattern of archetypal stories of heros in all genres. It tells the tale of a hero who goes through certain steps and accomplishes great feats to become who they are. The hero’s journey is used in drama, myths, storytelling, etc. In fact it has been used long before Joseph Campbell gave it a name. In the novel Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott…

The Hero’s Journey in Mythology In 1949, American scholar Joseph Campbell introduced the concept of the hero’s journey, also known as monomyth, in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The concept proposes the pattern continuously seen within heroic stories, where Campbell concludes that all tell the same story in various forms. The pattern follows the protagonist through evolutions of the character, allowing readers to experience the hero evolve from living an ordinary life to emerging…

A hero who faces a call to action; a king calls for the hero who can protect Herot from Grendel. A hero who is tested to prove himself; this hero proves himself worthy by fighting Grendel and his mother, fighting in wars, acquiring the throne, and the embark of defeating the dragon. A hero who is guided and in the presence of his companions; Hrothgar, Wiglaf, and his men by his side. A hero who faces low points; by not using his sword, but only using his hands and brains. A hero who follows the…

The idea of the hero’s quest is an archetype of literature; it occurs countless times in the history of stories. Many believe that any and all stories follow the path of the hero’s journey. The movie Excalibur includes multiple hero journeys, but the most prominent one is that of King Arthur. By mistake, Arthur successfully attempts to remove the sword Excalibur from the stone, symbolizing that he is the rightful king of the land. This sets him on the task of acquiring respect and recognition,…

Joseph Campbell once wrote, “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself,” and the hero’s journey is divided into three separate parts: departure, fulfillment, and return. Though at first glance, Suyuan Woo, from Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, doesn’t appear to meet this definition of a hero, she actually satisfies it by devoting her life to improving her daughter’s life. Suyuan’s early life is spent in Kweilin, in the midst of the second Sino-Japanese war.…

A hero’s journey is the steps of a process in which a hero is trying to accomplish a goal. However, the journey is about more than just completing their goal, they also find themselves and who they want to be. The hero encounters many obstacles throughout their journey that changes their view on the world and sometimes even their goal that they have worked so hard to strive for. In the book the Odyssey, the main character—Odysseus, went through his own hero’s journey. Along his journey home, he…

In every great novel, there is bound to be a tempest, the best friend, and the grand adventure in which there is bound to be a battle of some sort. The Monomyth and temple pattern has been seen throughout various movies and books around our culture. Fahrenheit 451 is no exception to the pattern. Among the three compilations of The Hearth and the Salamander, The Sieve and Sand, and Burning Bright, we as a reader travel through the monomyth journey alongside Guy Montag to show the adventure’s…

Campbell begins his explanation of the hero’s journey by revealing the first step of his monomyth, The Call to Adventure. The call can not be seen as physical nor as musical, instead it can be viewed as every person's tether to the universe and when the universe pulls that tether, it demands the attention of those it calls. The universe should not be seen as tyrannical however, for it calls a person to adventure not to be cruel but to bestow the knowledge that a rite of passage must soon be…