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Reluctant hero. Sgt. Alvin York returning home to family in 1919, after famous adventures in World War I, despite being a drafted conscientious objector. The reluctant hero is a heroic archetype typically found in fiction. The reluctant hero is typically portrayed either as an everyman forced into surreal situations which require him to rise to ...
The four heroes from the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. In narratology and comparative mythology, the Rank–Raglan mythotype (sometimes called the hero archetypes) is a set of narrative patterns proposed by psychoanalyst Otto Rank and later on amateur anthropologist Lord Raglan that lists different cross-cultural traits often found in the accounts of heroes, including ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 September 2024. Person or character who combats adversity through ingenuity, courage, or strength "Heroism" and "Heroine" redirect here. For the film, see Heroism (film). For other uses, see Hero (disambiguation), Heroine (disambiguation), and Heroes (disambiguation). The examples and perspective in ...
Hero's journey. In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's quest or hero's journey, also known as the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed. Earlier figures had proposed similar concepts, including ...
According to Jungian psychology, archetypes are innate potentials that are expressed in human behavior and experiences. They are hidden forms that are activated when they enter consciousness and are shaped by individual and cultural experiences. [3] The concept of archetypes is a key aspect of Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, which ...
The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths. Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's ...
Romantic hero. The Romantic hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has themselves at the center of their own existence. [ 1 ] The Romantic hero is often the protagonist in a literary work, and the primary focus is on the character's thoughts rather ...
The ascending three, where each event is of more significance than the preceding, for example, the hero must win first bronze, then silver, then gold objects. The contrasting three, where only the third has positive value, for example, The Three Little Pigs , two of whose houses are blown down by the Big Bad Wolf .