![]() ![]() ![]() I wrote out the seventeen stages of monomyth (read more here) and added the description of each. – Joseph CampbellĪfter researching this for a while, I was inspired to make my own comparisons between Harry’s journey in the Harry Potter series to see if it matched up with Joseph Campbell’s pattern. Still a bit confused? Here is how monomyth is explained by the creator of this idea himself:Ī hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. ![]() Monomyth, as conveniently explained by Wikipedia, “is a basic pattern that its proponents argue is found in many narratives from around the world.” Essentially, it is the theory that many great literary heroes have all gone through the same seventeen stages of adventure (i.e., their stories all follow the same pattern).īelow is a diagram of the basic “hero’s journey”: Last week, I found a post on Tumblr that analyzed a character from the TV show Doctor Who and compared that character’s journey to the pattern of Joseph Campbell’s “monomyth,” or “the hero’s journey” (the original post can be found here). ![]()
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