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1.

What work listed is probably not somehow inspired by Beowulf?

Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire

Prison Break

Dungeons & Dragons

The Hobbit

Shrek
2.
The best summary of Joseph Campbell's idea of the "Hero's Journey" is:

Heroes are never appreciated by their own people, so must journey elsewhere to find glory.

Traditional heroes share the same common traits and characteristics across cultures and around the world.

Heroes need comparable villains to bring out their best traits and to test their mettle.

Heroes from a culture's mythology are derived from the same singular ancestral group
3.
According to Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, the Archetypical Hero appears...

...in Anglo-Saxon England and Western Europe after the Roman retreat.

...at the End of Days.

...in all mythologies, religions, and epics in the world.

...in every movie, book, and video-game ever created.
4.
Which of the following are the Traits of the Archetypical Hero? (Hint: There are nine.)

Atonement with the Father

Invited to Adventure (Maybe with Trauma)

The Journey and the Unhealable Wound

Hero Receives Supernatural Help

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

Unusual Circumstances of Birth

Hero Barters His Goods
5.
Which of the following would NOT be an example of a Hero's Special Weapon?

Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber

Superman's Kryptonite

Moses' Staff

King Arthur's Excalibur
6.
Select which Archetypical Heroic Trait the following incident would fall under: Luke Skywalker has his hand cut-off by Darth Vader at Cloud City.

Hero's Special Weapon

The Journey and the Unhealable Wound

Hero Sells His Soul

Unusual Circumstances of Birth

Atonement with the Father
7.
Select which Archetypical Heroic Trait the following incident would fall under: The young Arthur pulls the Sword from the Stone, granting him the right to be king.

Unusual Circumstances of Birth

Invitation to Adventure

Hero Barters His Goods

Apotheosis of the Hero

Atonement with the Father
8.
Select which Archetypical Heroic Trait the following incident would fall under: After his death, William Wallace becomes a symbol of resistance against English oppression, and songs and statues are made to honor him.

Hero Proves Himself

Atonement with the Father

Hero Sells His Soul

Apotheosis of the Hero

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Answer:

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1. Prison Break

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

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