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Analyzing Joseph Campbell's The Hero With A Thousand Faces

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Objective summary: Analyzing Joseph Campbell’s text
In “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, Campbell explores the notion that all heroes fit the same archetype, and demonstrate the same journey at a macroscopic level. He proves that all heroes are centered around only one myth. He illustrates that a monomyth is an idea that all heroes are centered around one hero, but have variations that differentiate stories. By describing the three main phases of the journey that all heroes have to follow: separation, initiation, and return, Campbell explains how these stages relate to every hero. A hero takes a journey to ‘a region of supernatural wonder’, leaving his life behind from the common world. He or she then faces obstacles, which they will need to

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