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Blog Prompt 1

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Overall, William Faulkner's as I lay dying is quite unconventional, it has a bizarre narrative style that makes it not only a tough read but even more so challenging to identify the hero's journey. However, I still believe that it is possible to trace this narrative pattern through the events and character arcs of the story. Despite the novel's use of mobile perspective, stream-of-consciousness interior monologue, fragmentation, and nonlinear plotting. These narrative techniques create a jumbled chronology and can distort the reader's understanding of certain events in the story, making it more challenging to follow the hero's journey as two or more characters can have opposing views or different perspectives with information they do or don't know. However, the hero's journey is a common narrative pattern that is often recognized as a clear blueprint for storytelling. Even in works of literature that deviate from traditional storytelling techniques such as A...
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Blog 3 Prompt 4: The Hero's Journey In Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World

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(MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING!!!!!! THIS WHOLE BLOG IS A SPOILER) Content warning for blood Also very long blog My Favorite rendition of the Hero's/heroine's journey in an anime is in Re: Zero. This anime is relatively popular however it's one of my favorites. After we started learning about the monomyth I was fascinated by how it would apply to every story I could think of. I don't watch plenty of anime, but with the five or so I have watched this one takes the cake. Animes like JoJos Bizarre Adventures or Hunter x Hunter, also follow this path really well. The Hero's Journey is something that is very widely applicable, it's hard to find perfect matches that can hit every step and not only hit every step but be actually good, providing an enthralling watch or showing me something totally unique. I chose this story due to the focal point being cyclical like the monomyth. This story can be applied to all characters via heroes or heroines' journeys. So much so that...
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Blog 2 Prompt 2

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Critical analysis of Murdock's Heroines Journey. -Thomas S      After digging into Murdocks rendition of a heroine's journey, I found some interesting details and interpretations. I think my new understanding may help change your thoughts on the initial reading of the heroine's monomyth and even Campbell's.       After repeated discussion of the hero's journey monomyth by Joseph Campbell, we are inclined to wonder about the Heroines Journey. Yes, the hero's journey can be substituted with any gender however it doesn't take a lot of reading to see in its entirety that it's misogynistic and is full of stereotypical male roles and anti-female roles. What's grossly ironic about this is that Joseph Campell said to Murdock "Women don’t need to make the journey. In the whole mythological tradition, the woman is [already] there. All she has to do is to realize that she’s the place that people are trying to get to." Not only is this just plain wrong...
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Blog #1 Q1

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What Truly is "The Belly of "The Belly of The Whale" in Star Wars: A New Hope? -Thomas S     As our class worked through identifying each stage of the Hero's journey in Star Wars: A New Hope I had a few questions. When people discussed certain areas of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth I questioned them. It appeared as if to me people didn't look deep enough into the ideas Campbell wanted to be entertained by each subject. For the sake of this prompt, I want to tackle the section known as "The Belly of "The Belly of The Whale"," one of my favorite parts of the monomyth.     The majority of the class wanted "The Belly of "The Belly of The Whale" to be when Obi-Wan and Luke entered the Cantina. This makes sense at a glance however it's simply not true, at least not completely. I would say this is nothing like what was actually imagined by Campbell. It would make sense chronologically that the belly would take place here but what ...
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