My Interpretation: Steps of the Hero’s Journey.

Posted by Evadora - January 30th, 2007

The following text is the work of boredinmath.com and Cleo Evadora Writters and are important notes.

To recap the Hero’s journey:

  1. The Call to Adventure: Some shit happens and someone has to clean it up. The cleaner known as the hero normally is choosen by accident.
  2. Refusal of the Call: The hero wants to be a pussy and stay home. Something tramatic normally has to happen before they agree to suck it up.
  3. Yay Weapons and Knowledge: The know it all, usually some one who is old and retired, tells the hero A. whats ahead, B. how to kill it. The hero noramlly get weapons at this stage.
  4. The First Thershold: Someone helps the hero discover the magical world (hte world they fight in) and show them first hand what that world is like.
  5. Rebirth: The hero goes to a place that should kill him or her, but comes out alive.

Initiation

  1. The Road of Trials: Simuliar to the miny levels in a video game. YThe hero first enters the magical world and must find a way to not die.
  2. Marriage: The hero finds a lover.
  3. Woman/Man/ Something as the “Temptress.” Something sexy tries to stop the hero from accomplishing their goal.
  4. Lessons with Dad or Dad-like figure.
  5. Apotheosis: The hero that isn’t. Normally there is a false hero that needs to be confronted.
  6. Winning: The hero get what they set out for.

Return

  1. Refusal of the Return: the hero wants to stay in the cooler, magical world.
  2. The Chase. The hero must run away from the magical world… magically.
  3. Hero lose his or her ego: They are rescued from ordinary people or forces and must realize that they aren’t THAT cool.
  4. The Hero Arrives: The Hero returns to this or her boring life in the normal world and faces it.
  5. Master of Two Worlds: The hero now has “skilegde”. He or she has master their powers.
  6. The happy ending: Hero lives among a better world.

help was recieved from:

http://www.spookybug.com/origins/myth.html

http://www.divineparadox.com/Arts/archetypes_on_the_path.htm

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