The Hero's Journey
The most basic mental picture anyone can form when thinking of a hero's journey is shown in this image
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So, any narrative starts with a sense of normality, everyone, and especially the hero, leads a normal life, run by routine. From that, we start to build a story following some basic steps. These steps have been used in movies, theatre, opera, games, books, anything that involves narrative.
Here are these basic steps.
- Departure - the hero's journey begins here, he will depart from the ordinary world
- The call to adventure -
- Initial refusal of the call
- Acceptance of the call
- Supernatural Aid and/or talisman
- Crossing the first threshold and entering into the unknown
- Threshold guardians
- Allies/helpers
- Belly of the whale
There is quite a lot to explain about each one of these steps, in order to make it clear as to what their significance is, but I have found a brilliant, in depth description of each one of the stages a hero will have to follow during a story. It is known as Campbell's monomyth.
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