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  2. Hero's journey - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the 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.

  3. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    Finally, in the resolution, the hero overcomes his burden against the odds. The key thesis of the book: "However many characters may appear in a story, its real concern is with just one: its hero. It is the one whose fate we identify with, as we see them gradually developing towards that state of self-realization which marks the end of the story.

  4. Joseph Campbell - Wikipedia

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    In the 1987 documentary Joseph Campbell: A Hero's Journey, he explains God in terms of a metaphor: God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being. Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. So it depends on how much you want to think ...

  5. Quest - Wikipedia

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    The quest, in the form of the hero's journey, plays a central role in the monomyth described by Joseph Campbell; the hero sets forth from the world of common day into a land of adventures, tests, and magical rewards. Most times in a quest, the knight in shining armor wins the heart of a beautiful maiden/princess.

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    "North Dakota is the fulcrum of the hero’s journey in TR’s almost unbelievable life story," said O’Keefe. North America, USA, North Dakota, Medora, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Painted ...

  7. Heroine's journey - Wikipedia

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    In storytelling, the heroine's journey is a female-centric version of the traditional hero's journey template. One origin of the idea is Maureen Murdock's 1990- book The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness; Murdock is a Jungian psychotherapist and a student of Joseph Campbell. She developed the guide while working with her female ...

  8. The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers - Wikipedia

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    The book stems from a seven-page studio memo, "A Practical Guide to The Hero with a Thousand Faces". [5]An earlier edition, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters, was published in 1992.

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    Every hero’s journey has its downbeat second act — the part where many-headed monsters have to be fought back, where the road gets dark and twisty and teeming with threats — before the sun ...