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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell is a mythological bible that's older than you think.
In the days of yore when the mere idea of the Internet was a pipe dream, and the secrets of the first computers were either lost to history or covered up by nervous post-war governments, one Joseph Campbell published his seminal work in 1949: The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a comparison of classical mythology that focused on the archetypal hero and his journey. In essence, he attempts to render these stories down to their familiar tropes, then demonstrates how these tropes originate from archetypes encoded within the human brain. The Hero's Journey is an archetypal story pattern common in ancient myths and modern-day adventures.
It can be boiled down to three stages:
* Departure: the Hero leaves the familiar world behind.
* Initiation: the Hero learns to navigate the unfamiliar world of adventure.
* Return: the Hero returns to the familiar world.
The work became a lot more well-known after George Lucas cited the work as a significant source of inspiration when writing the first six Star Wars movies. Since then, it has become a substantial source of media for anyone involved in creative writing careers, and its themes are commonly discussed in many literature courses. The book is incredibly fascinating with its use of mythology. This is what the phrase "hero with a thousand faces" describes, the idea being that all mythological heroes are facets or reflections of one heroic archetype.
In the days of yore when the mere idea of the Internet was a pipe dream, and the secrets of the first computers were either lost to history or covered up by nervous post-war governments, one Joseph Campbell published his seminal work in 1949: The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a comparison of classical mythology that focused on the archetypal hero and his journey. In essence, he attempts to render these stories down to their familiar tropes, then demonstrates how these tropes originate from archetypes encoded within the human brain. The Hero's Journey is an archetypal story pattern common in ancient myths and modern-day adventures.
It can be boiled down to three stages:
* Departure: the Hero leaves the familiar world behind.
* Initiation: the Hero learns to navigate the unfamiliar world of adventure.
* Return: the Hero returns to the familiar world.
The work became a lot more well-known after George Lucas cited the work as a significant source of inspiration when writing the first six Star Wars movies. Since then, it has become a substantial source of media for anyone involved in creative writing careers, and its themes are commonly discussed in many literature courses. The book is incredibly fascinating with its use of mythology. This is what the phrase "hero with a thousand faces" describes, the idea being that all mythological heroes are facets or reflections of one heroic archetype.