Through The Abyss (get it? like in the heros journey.)

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...