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Analysis Of The Hero With A Thousand Faces By Christopher Vogler

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In the article, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, Christopher Vogler talks about a very influential book or also used as a guideline for many hero based movies. Just about every movie or book that includes a hero as one of the main characters can be lead through the guideline and will follow the same major events in the story of the hero being lead through the phases. The article is divided into many small sections that explain multiple facts or parts of the book. Further on in the article, there are lots of information about evidence of how the definition of a hero is the same around the world. For example, in section eight, Campbell discovers the myth of a hero is universal and occurs in every culture.

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