THE HEROS JOURNEY

The Hero's Journey

The Hero's Journey

A pattern has been discovered in much of our literature, as well as in our life -- that of the journey. Especially in regards to mythology, the journey goes through the following stages. The journey starts with the call to adventure. The hero may be willing or unwilling to accept the call but do to the imbalance, loss, or having something taken, missing or denied which brought the call apon them will accept his/her call. The next step in the journey is the hero is usually confronted by some form of supernatural aid that will help them in their journey. This is followed by the threshold which can be a challenge internally or externally that the hero has to conquer in order to continue on his journey. Following the threshold the hero usually encounters a helper/mentor that will give him/her assistance in their journey. After the hero finds their helper/mentor they are put through some test, trials, and ordeals which will prepare them and help them when the reach the abyss which is the next stage in their journey. The abyss in when the hero hits rock bottom and faces the greatest danger and faces this danger alone. When the hero overcomes the abyss and conquers that danger, which they had to face alone, he/she has a revelation and a transformation where they are reborn a new man. Following transformation the hero faces atonement where they are given a gift which they become richer, wiser, stronger from. After the hero has gone full circle in their journey they finally reach the return where the imbalance, loss or the some thing that was taken, missing, or denied, which call them to their journey in the first place, is reversed. Homer's story of Odysseus falls into this classic journey pattern.

Charles became more violent and greedy. Story World: The story world takes place during the industrial revolution of Britain. Industries were developing and people were moving out into the countryside into the towns. The story takes place in and around the two houses in Bradford Northern England. The two houses are very different from each other emphasizing the difference between the two families. Yet they are similar given the fact that they are both family homes and exude the warmness and completeness of a family. It is also a vision of a kind of heaven. Brookefield is a beautiful splendid place, carpeted with crimson, and crimson covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered with gold, a shower of glass-drops hanging in silver chains from the centre and shimmering with little soft tampers. Life here is much more jovial than the inmates residing in Blackmoor. Blackmoor stands in the valley below Brookfield, four miles from it. There is a lake surrounded with tall fir trees. It has a garden that is enclosed within a large 'wild green park. It is dark and cold. The landscape can be pitiless and forbidding It is a house which contains ...