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2."The Hero's Journey" redirects here. For other uses, see The Hero's Journey (disambiguation).
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In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth, or the hero's journey, is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.[1]
The study of hero myth narratives started in 1871 with anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor's observations of common patterns in plots of hero's journeys.[2] Later on, others introduced various theories on hero myth narratives such as Otto Rank and his Freudian psychoanalytic approach to myth,[3] Lord Raglan's unification of myth and rituals,[2] and eventually hero myth pattern studies were popularized by Joseph Campbell, who was influenced by Carl Jung's view of myth. In his 1949 work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell described the basic narrative pattern as follows:
3.at the End of Days.
4.Atonement with the Father, Hero Sells His Soul
Makes Peace with the Mother
Hero Must Prove Himself
Apotheosis of the Hero
Hero's Special Weapon
Leaves Family or Land