1. Write a definition for a hero THEN think of your own personal hero:  Who is it?  Why are they your hero?  What attributes, or characteristics do they possess that relate to your definition?

3. According to Joseph Campbell in the Hero with a Thousand Faces, “a hero is any male or female who leaves the world of his or her everyday life to undergo a journey to a special world where challenges and fears are overcome in order to secure a quest, which is then shared with other members of the hero’s community.”

4. WHAT IS AN ARCHETYPE  Reoccurring design, pattern of action, character type, theme or image which is recognizable in a wide variety of works of literature representing common and universal human experiences.

5. Archetype theory: all characters can be understood by 12 personality types. – Added Value

6. JOSEPH CAMPBELL  American psychologist and mythical researcher who wrote, Heroes with A Thousand Faces  Discovered many common patterns running through hero myths and stories from around the world.  After years of research, Campbell discovered several basic stages that almost every hero-quest goes through  Hero’s Journey

7. Check out the similarities between Harry Potter and Luke Skywalker!

8. 17 STAGES  The call to adventure  Refusal of the call  Supernatural Aid  The Crossing of the First Threshold  Belly of the Whale  The Road of Trials  The meeting with the Goddess  Temptation  Atonement with the Father  Apotheosis  The Ultimate Boon  Refusal of the Return  The magic Flight  Rescue from Without  The Crossing of the Return Threshold  Master of Two Worlds  Freedom to Live.

9. 3 PHASES IN THE JOURNEY: Departure Initiation Return

10.  Heroes exist in a world considered “ordinary” or uneventful by those who live there. Often the heroes are considered odd by those in the ordinary world and possess some ability or characteristic that makes them feel out-of-place.

11. 1. The Call to Adventure  The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when he or she is first given notice that everything is going to change, whether the person knows it or not.

12.  Often when the call is given, the future hero refuses to heed it. This may be from a sense of duty or obligation, fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of reasons that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9GwIeh5FIY

13.  Once the hero has committed to the quest, consciously or unconsciously, his or her guide and magical helper appears or becomes known. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2Ood7aGuY

14.  The person actually crosses into the field of adventure, leaving the known limits of his or her world, and venturing out into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules and limits are not known

15.  This step represents the final separation from the hero’s known world and self. It is sometimes described as the person’s lowest point, but it actually the point when the person is between or transitioning between worlds and selves. By entering this stage, the person shows his/her willingness to undergo a metamorphosis (change). The hero’s original self “dies” so to speak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOMfsWefVA

16.  The road of trials is a series of tests, tasks, or ordeals that the person must undergo, to begin the transformation. Often the person fails one or more of these tests.

17.  This represents the point when the person experiences a love that has the power and significance of the all-powerful, unconditional love that an infant may experience with his or her mother. It is also known as the “hieros gamos”, or sacred marriage, the union of opposites, and may take place entirely within the person. This is often represented by the person finding the other person that he or she loves most completely. Although symbolized as a meeting with a goddess, unconditional love/and or self-unification does not have to be represented by a woman.

18.  At one level, this step is about those temptations that may lead the hero to abandon or stray from his or her quest, which as does not necessarily have to be represented by a woman. However, this step is also about the revulsion that the hero may feel about his fleshy/earthly nature and the subsequent attachment or projection of that revulsion to women. Woman is a METAPHOR for the physical or material temptations of life, since the hero-knight was often tempted by lust from his spiritual journey.

19.  Here the person must confront whatever holds the ultimate power in his or her life. In many stories this is the father, or father figure who has life and death power. This is the center point of the journey. Although this step is most frequently symbolized by an encounter with a male entity, it does not have to be a male; just someone or something with incredible power. For the transformation to take place, the person has to be “killed” so that the new self can come into being. Sometimes this killing is literal, and the earthly journey for that character is either over or moves into a different realm.

20.  To apotheosize is to deify, or make godly. When someone dies a physical death, he or she moves beyond the pairs or opposites to a state of divine knowledge, love, compassion and bliss. This is a god-like state; the person is in heaven and beyond all strife. A more mundane way of looking at this step is that it is a period of rest, peace and fulfillment before the hero begins the return.

21.  The ultimate boon is the achievement of the goal or quest. It is what the person went on the journey to get. All of the previous steps serve to prepare and purify the person for this step, since in many myths the boon is something transcendent like the elixir of life itself, or a plant that supplies immortality, or the Holy Grail.

22. 12. Refusal of the Return  So why, when all has been achieved, the ambrosia has been consumed, and the hero has conversed with the gods, why come back to normal life with all of its cares and woes?

23.  Sometimes the hero must escape with the boon, if it’s something that the gods have been jealously guarding. It can be just as adventurous and dangerous returning from the journey as it was to go on it.

24.  Often the hero must have powerful guides and rescuers to bring them back to everyday life, especially if the person has been wounded or weakened by the experience.

25.  The trick in returning is to retain the wisdom gained on the quest, to integrate that wisdom into a human life, and then maybe figure out how to share the wisdom with the rest of the world. This is usually extremely difficult.

26.  In myths, this step is usually represented by a transcendental (mystical) hero like Jesus or Buddha. For a human hero, it may mean achieving a balance between the material and spiritual. The person has become comfortable and competent in both the inner and outer worlds.

27.  Mastery leads to freedom from the fear of death, which in return is the freedom to live. This is sometimes referred to as living in the moment, neither anticipating the future nor regretting the past.

28.  Item that assists the hero on his/her quest  The Wizard of Oz: Ruby Slippers  The Hobbit: The Ring

29.  This can be as simple as the son or daughter of a king. Sometimes, this will be a secret. Possibly, the unusual circumstance will be very odd, perhaps even magical. The hero could be born into danger, or the birth could be a fulfillment of prophesy.

30.  George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, claims that Campbell’s, Hero’s Journey, was the inspiration for his groundbreaking films. Lucas also believes that Star Wars is such a popular saga because it taps into a timeless story-structure which has existed for thousands of years.

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33.  Draw an image of one step you see as one of the most important, based on an hero story you have seen or read