Essay: The Hero’s Journey

This weekend, please read the article “The Hero’s Journey,” which is based on the ideas of the scholar Joseph Campbell.  Campbell believed that that almost all myths and stories have the same generic schema.  Perhaps it’s based on some supernatural reality…?  Read about the different stages of this journey and the archetypical characters which we can find in these stories. 

Then choose a book or movie that you have enjoyed and try to analyze it in terms of “The Hero’s Journey.”  When you write about the stages or characters, try to use non-defining relative clauses.

 “In Harry Potter, Dumbledore is the mentor, which is a guide to the hero.”

Your essay should be at least two type-written pages.  Please type it, and if you can’t print it out, you can send it to my Kaplan email address: jfzkaplan13@yahoo.com.