The Hero's Journey In Coraline, By Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell was an American mythologist who first found out that there are common patterns on every storyline and also published The Hero with a Thousand Faces. He explains heroes are following certain routine and cycle in the story. That is, hero leaves for adventure and goes through struggles, and after the hero accomplishes something, he comes back with better knowledge and something that he didn’t have before his adventure. The movie Coraline by director Henry Selick is about the little girl is disgruntled with her parents since they’re too busy to pay attention to Coraline, and suddenly she finds out the secret little door, which leads to the other world. According to Campbell, the first step of hero’s journey is the “Call to Adventure”, …show more content…

In the movie, she wakes up from her dream and follows a mouse, which guide to inside of that door. There were no bricks anymore and she sees the other world behind the door. Everything looks same in the other world, but people have buttons for their eyes. As Campbell states, beyond the threshold is dark, unknown, dangerous and there is no protection for hero, which means Coraline might get what she want, but she will needs to give something in exchange for her …show more content…

When Coroline meets the other parents, she thinks that they are the parents who she was dreaming of. Also other parents say other world is better than the real world and convince her to stay with them and saw buttons in her eyes so that she can eat her. In Campbell’s view, the hero needs to see through who is trying to trick or prevent her from hero’s success.
“The Road of Traits”, which Campbell describe as the hero has to suffer from some tasks or tests that hero can never run away from. In the other world, other mother kidnaps Caroline’s parents inside of a snow dome to keep Coraline stay in the other world with other parents forever. As Coroline rejects her wishes, she gets frustrated with Coraline and she locks Coraline in a mirror. She also meets ghost children who are lost their eyes by other mother before, and she promised them to take their eyes back. She successes from her trails as Campbell say the hero must survive and complete her

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