Hero's Journey Archetype
The man who studied mythologies from different cultures around the world.
Who is Joseph Campbell?
Something that sets them apart from the beginning.
What is An Unusual birth/Early childhood?
Overcoming challenges, fighting the monsters, winning the battles.
What is The Challenge or Trials?
The Iliad and The Odyssey.
What are Homer's two epics?
Images, ideas, or basic units of expression that appear in mythology around the world.
What is an archetype?
Moana crossing the reef.
What is an example of the step, Crossing the Threshold?
Moana's grandma, the ocean, and Maui.
Who are Moana's supernatural helpers/mentors?
Common knowledge that a group of people from the same culture shares.
What is cultural capital?
The quintessential archetypal myth.
What is the Hero's Journey?
The hero is forced to leave everyday world/life.
What is the Call to Adventure?
The hero achieves the goal, wins the battle, finishes the quest, kills the bad guy, and is changed by their experiences.
What is The Transformation?
Hospitality, Reciprocity, Arete, and Religion
What are Greek Values?
The departure, the initiation, and the return.
What are the three parts of the Hero's Journey archetype?
Moana's grandma showing her that their ancestors were voyagers, the island dying, and then her grandma dying.
What spurs Moana on her adventure? OR What are examples of the Call to Adventure step?
The darkest, most perilous part of the hero's journey.
What is The Abyss or Temptation?
10 years
How long did the Trojan War last? OR How long did it take Odysseus to get home?
Mother figure, father figure, hero, wise old man, maiden
What are examples of character archetypes in stories?
Moana ignoring the ocean's call to her and assuming her responsibilities as future chief.
What is rejecting the Call to Adaventure?
Moana placing a shell on top of the stones from the previous chiefs.
What is The Mastery of Two Worlds?
A literary technique in which the author starts the story in the middle, flashes back to the beginning to catch up, and then skips to the end.
What is In Medias Res?