Joseph Campbell’s 17-step template
A Critical Analysis of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey Joseph Campell’s “Hero’s Journey,” outline, describes the journey of most main characters in fiction stories. Joseph Campell’s original Hero’s Journey took many forms, but still all accurately describe the Hero’s Journey in Campell’s perspective. The versions of the Hero’s Journey that are going to be analyzed in this blog are the “Hero’s Journey” circle in Wikipedia and the “Hero’s Journey” circle handed out to us in class. My argument is that Joseph Campbell intentionally categorized the hero’s journey, not only for a fictional character, but a non-fictional character. He set up the diagram to promote his belief that someone who followed his bliss will lead a satisfied life. My argument is demonstrated through the crossing of the first threshold until the return of the known world. In Wikipedia, the Hero’s Journey is separated into two main categories, the known world, and the unknown world to the main character. The known...