civilizations to modern day culture, mythology remains substantially ingrained in world culture. The hero’s journey besets a significant component of mythology, and subsists of six critical stages: leaving home, embarking on an adventure, encountering dragons, facing death, having an all-out struggle, and gaining wisdom. Homer’s famous epic, The Odyssey centers on the exploits of Greek “hero” Odysseus as he journeys back home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. Though the Greeks may have deemed Odysseus a hero
Imagine this, the hero that invented the idea of the Trojan horse, winning the battle for the Greeks and finally ending the Trojan War. It wouldn’t be the end of that for our hero. With the journey home so cruel and long it makes the war beforehand something as an afterthought. It takes years for our hero to get home, surviving things only imagined through in nightmares. Lotus plants that made men crave it, a cyclops that was the terror of men, gods and enchantresses, sirens with their deadly captivating
My Life’s Journey As A Former Academy Soccer Player While learning about Greek mythology, we also learned about the Hero’s Journey, which was written by a scholar named Joseph Campbell. The Hero’s Journey is a pattern that almost every story follows. This pattern follows your life story too, of course were not slaying dragons or saving people falling out of buildings, but your life in some way is following the hero’s journey. My parents made the decision to have me leave the academy soccer program
From Greek mythology to 21st century TV shows, the idea of what a hero is been distorted. The antagonist was always condemned for his wrong doings and mishaps, while the protagonist was always glorified and rooted for during his journey: meanwhile, the audience was always eager to find out what was going to happen next. The “hero’s journey” was the traditional, saccharine, and orthodox concept of the good and humble person embarking on a new adventure, with an objective that s/he must reach; in
Divine Comedy with the same theme in mind as the Odyssey, going on a journey. Divine Comedy is considered to be one of the finest works in Italian literature. James Joyce’s Ulysses, one of the important writings in modern literature, was another work written through the influence of the Odyssey. Many more people have been influenced by Homer’s epics and we consider those works to be important in their own