from her book to the narrative pattern that is outlined in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Victor Frankenstein follows this quest structure by being called to adventure, refusing this vall, accepting the call, receiving help, venturing into the dark, undergoes a supreme ordeal and then is rewarded in the end. This article suggests that Campbell’s model is based on Van Gennep’s classic formulation that there are three acts of passage. First there is the pre-liminal rite (rite of
According to Joseph Campbell, most of these heroes’ journeys follow the structure of a Monomyth; it is comparable to a skeleton upon which adventures can be outlined. Disney’s Mulan is no different. Directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, Mulan observes the journey of Fa Mulan, a young Chinese maiden who disguises herself as a male to replace her father in the war against the Huns. Mulan emerges as an archetypal hero because her adventure follows Joseph Campbell’s universal monomyth formula; she
If readers account Campbell’s theory into Stevenson’s Treasure Island, then it follows that the hero Jim Hawkins must not only go through a series of stages and tests in his adventure but, within these tests, win a victory in order to achieve “adulthood.” As readers may recall