Hero essay

Hero Essay
Due, Friday, Dec. 3
Four pages, double-space
Need at least four research articles cited, including the Campbell book. Online sources are not accepted. Use standard footnotes. Note sure how to cite movies, reviews, newspaper articles? Use this website for help: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Choose the “notes and bibliography tab”

Include a bibliography. Yes, your footnotes will have the complete reference I am just asking for a second page attached. Make it page five. The Kate Turbian Guide is based on this style and is also acceptable.


CHOOSE ONE. Post your choice on the blog. Only one person per topic.

The questions

Option One (seven choices)

Explain how the following used Campbell’s work. You will have to include the 12-steps mentioned in the initial lecture (and posted on Blackboard), the works themselves, information on (Vogler, Adams, Rowling). All are believed to have been influenced by Campbell’s work.

• Hollywood film producer and writer Christoper Vogler
• Novelist Richard Adams
• Author J.K. Rowling
• Author Arthur C. Clarke
• Singer Bob Dylan
• Singer Jim Morrison
• Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia

Option Two (five choices)

• Explain the drawings in the book. How do they illustrate the text? Says Campbell: “Artists are magical helpers. Evoking symbols and motifs that connect us to our deeper selves, they can help us along the heroic journey of our own lives.”

Part One (one person)
Part Two (one person)

• One of the questions that has been raised about the way that Campbell laid out the monomyth of the hero’s journey was that it focused on the masculine journey. Is this true? Explain, cite. Why might this be true? Why not? You might also consider the influence of Freud and Jung in this discussion.

• Analyze how perceptions of a 'Hero' change among different cultures and throughout time.

• Campbell often refers to psychology in the book. What was the influence of
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? (You might also consider Arnold an Gennep, James Frazer, Franz Boas, Otto Rank)

Option Three (17 choices)

Describe the elements of the following based on Campbell’s monomyth. You will have to include the 12-steps mentioned in the initial lecture (and posted on Blackboard) and the works themselves.

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. The Iliad
3. The Odyssey
4. The Aeneid
5. Beowulf
6. The Ramayana
7. The Lord of the Rings series
8. The Harry Potter series
9. The Hobbit
10. Bikeman
11. Lion King
12. Count of Monte Cristo
13. Madame Bovary
14. Narnia: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
15. Wizard of Oz
16. King Arthur
17. Aladdin

Are there discernable patterns? Is the hero a remote figure, or someone a “normal” person can identify with? What is the lesson learned? What is the hero's relationship with his homeland (whether that place is ancient Greece or the imaginary Middle Earth)? What are the archetypes? What are the ways that heroes go about leaving on their journeys? What is the moral objective of the hero?