Analysis Of Christopher Campbell's 'The Hero With A Thousand Faces'

Christopher Reeve 's once said that a hero is an individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. This quote speaks to me because it illustrates that anyone can achieve greatness and their own personal bliss when they are able to search within themselves and keep going, especially when desperation creeps in making us doubt ourselves thus tempting us into giving into our fears and quitting. I am learning that failing because of fear is the greatest tragedy that a person can write for themselves because they are depriving the world of their greatest gifts thus keeping them from their personal bliss because it is only when one puts their greatest, but most vulnerable gifts into the world that a person

This journey according to Campbell has a number of stages that every hero goes through in some form or another. He then comprises these stages into a technique that gives mankind the tools necessary to analyze not only their life 's choices, but those of the world 's greatest hero 's thus giving us the stories that inspire our world 's greatest gifts and achievements. Thus it is with these stories that we as the human culture, learn how to look outside ourselves in order to make the decisions required to become a hero in our immediate world because we gave the world something greater than ourselves by using our gifts and creating something for the world. It is this journey that Campbell coined the Hero 's

At this time the hero will be tested while sorting out those who can be trusted from those who can 't in the new world, thus preparing for the challenges that lay ahead. Near the middle of the journey, the hero will have to confront and tackle their deepest fears. Out of the moment of death comes a new life. The hero is then compelled into completing their adventure in order to start the long and dangerous trek home. At the pinnacle of the journey, the hero is usually relentlessly and rigorously tested one last time before being permitted to return home. The hero is then asked to execute one last heroic task or sacrifice, thus resulting in the last symbolic death and rebirth resulting in the resolution of the inner and external conflicts of our hero. The hero then returns home with all of the knowledge and gifts attained on their quest thus giving them the power to change both their immediate and external world for the better, thus resulting in the only true act of heroism the ability of accomplishing something larger than