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Do all movies and books have the same backbone? Ultimately they do, which can be seen through the heroic journey, which Joseph Campbell researched. The heroic journey can be seen in all stories. The stories Aladdin and The Hobbit are very similar in the heroic journey aspect. This shows that all stories really do follow the same patterns which can be seen throughout the Departure, Initiation, and Return.
A hero is someone who is there when you need them, they would give up everything for you. You never have to worry about them backing you up. They’re the people you never know about until you need someone to talk to. They are the most determined, which leads to them never giving up. This is important because to be a hero you don’t have to
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have superpowers or big extravagant things. You can just do what your able and that makes you a hero. With my definition it points toward the heart and soul of a hero and not their looks or money. When it comes down to it at the core of every hero they are the same. As you now know there are things that makes a hero a hero that doesn’t have anything to do with looks, but all hero’s ultimately go on the same journey. One way the Heroic Journey is similar is seen through the Departure. For example both have an Ordinary World, Call to Adventure/Refusal of the Call, Supernatural Aid, Crossing of the First Threshold, and Belly of the Whale. The Ordinary World in Aladdin is that he is a street rat and there are a lot of other street rats like him. The only thing is that he lives in Agrabah, where the king lives, so he feels out of place. In The Hobbit Bilbo’s house and everything around him is normal, but he is odd because he has a Tookish side to him. This side of him wants to go on adventures and they would disappear for weeks on end and their family would cover for them. This side of him sets him apart from the other hobbits around him. The Call to Adventure/Refusal of the Call in Aladdin happens when Aladdin gets thrown in jail and Jafar comes disguised and he rescues him, but he has to do a task. In the Hobbit it happens when Bilbo is outside and all he sees is this strange man, this man is Gandalf. Gandalf says “But I have no time to blow smoke-rings this morning. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.” The refusal in The Hobbit happens right after that when Bilbo says “I should think so-in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.” This refusal is very obvious, and in Aladdin I’m not sure that it actually happens. In Aladdin, Jafar pushes him back into the cave of wonders after he gives Jafar the lamp, which is kind of like a refusal but not as obvious of one. The Supernatural Aid in Aladdin is the genie, Abu, and the magic carpet. In The Hobbit there are many different supernatural aids, but the most evident is Gandalf, and the ring. The Crossing of the Threshold in Aladdin happens when he gets to the Cave of Wonders. The Cave of Wonders is the first time that Aladdin crosses into the unknown and danger. In The Hobbit the crossing is when they get to the spiders, and they encounter the wood elves. The final part of the departure is the Belly of the Whale. In Aladdin this happens when Jafar pushes him back into the Cave of Wonders. In the Hobbit it’s when the dwarves get captured by the wood elves and Bilbo follows them wearing the ring. These two stories are so different, but follow the same type of pattern. The pattern demonstrated helps us to understand what happens throughout different stories, and how they are connected to one another. The Departure is very similar. Another way the Heroic Journey is similar is the Initiation.
The Initiation has 4 parts, Road of Trials, The Ultimate Boon, Atonement with the Father, and Apotheosis or Deification. For example in Aladdin the Road of Trials starts at the Cave of Wonders, and then the hardest task is telling Jasmine who he actually is. In the Hobbit, it starts when they enter Mirkwood. The Ultimate Boon in Aladdin is after he decides to not tell Jasmine who he actually is. Jasmine already knows that Aladdin is a street rat. Jasmine is actually the treasure in the story. In the Hobbit it’s when Bilbo gives the Arkenstone to the Elvenking and Bard in hopes of stopping the war. The Arkenstone is Bilbo’s 14th of the share. The ultimate treasure is the 2 small chests Bilbo receives. The Atonement with the Father In Aladdin happens when Aladdin confides in the Genie about the last wish he has. In the Hobbit it’s when Bilbo and Thorin talk right before Thorin dies. The last step is the Apotheosis and in Aladdin it’s during the famous carpet scene. He ends up in a state of bliss and love. In the Hobbit the Apotheosis is when Bilbo is so content and happy to go home that he gives some of the treasure away. These similarities lead to me to believe that these stories follow the same pattern. The Initiation has the same
pattern. The last way these two stories are similar are through the Return. One big part of the Return that is very similar is Rescue from WIthout. The Rescue from Without in Aladdin is when the magic carpet comes and saves Aladdin when he is banished to the wastelands. In the Hobbit when he is headed home he gets hit by a rock, but isn’t seen because of the ring. Along with this he goes home with Gandalf and he helps him. In summary, we have looked at the different ways that these two stories are alike through the Heroic Journey. The Departure, Initiation, and Return. I think the strongest out of all of these was the Return. The stories Aladdin and The Hobbit are very similar in the heroic journey aspect. This shows that all stories really do follow the same patterns which can be seen throughout the Departure, Initiation, and Return. Now that you’ve heard my opinion, you’ll look at stories a little bit differently.
What is a hero? A hero can be classified as a number of things. A hero can be a person who in the opinions of others has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal. Ervin Staub, a holocaust survivor from Hungary and as scholar on altruistic behavior, has written, "Goodness like evil often begins in small steps. Heroes evolve; they aren't born. Very often the rescuers make only a small commitment at the start, to hide someone for a day or two. But once they had taken that step, they begin to see themselves differently, as someone who helps. What starts as mere willingness becomes intense involvement." The business man, Oskar Schindler, demonstrated a powerful example
Here is where the differences start to appear. The hobbit refers to something as simple as climbing a tree as an adventure. The prominent business man thinks that spending a weekend away from his wife and family is an adventure. To set forth upon an adventure of any kind a person needs to be free again, both characters define freedom in different ways. Bilbo simply needs to be away from the influence of his friends and family to find out what he really wants for himself and what he wants to do about it. Bilbo finds freedom when he makes the choice to follow the dwarves into the unknown. When Babbitt is finally given freedom when he is able to go camping alone with his friends for a week he is suddenly terrified about what he is going to do with himself. Babbitt’s friends seem to bring out his inner-self when he is finally pulled away from home and on a train going to Maine. Once up in Maine the men say that they are going to “loaf by ourselves and smoke and cuss and be natural';. In other words they are going to be free from the rules imposed on them by their wives, families and the community itself.
The first phase of initiation is the Road of Trials, represented when Gandalf, Bilbo’s supernatural aid, saves Bilbo from a a danger, “Of course it was Gandalf… It burned with a rage that made it gleam if goblins were about; now it was bright as blue flame for delight in the killing of the great lord of the cave” (Tolkien 65). Bilbo realizes when the Goblin attack ends, that adventure can be difficult when Gandalf saves the group from the goblins. The next stage is the Meeting with the Goddess, since Bilbo never actually encounters a mythical goddess in The Hobbit, this ‘goddess’ is represented through the ring, “his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it” (Tolkien 68). In the third phase of Initiation, Woman as Temptress, Someone or something tries to distract the hero from his goal; in The Hobbit, this temptress is represented by the ring; however, it does not affect Bilbo negatively. Bilbo uses the ring to get him and the dwarves out of sticky situations, “The ring felt cold as it slipped on to his groping finger… Gollum passed him by, taking no notice of him, cursing and whispering as he ran” (Tolkien 83). Bilbo uses the ring to get away from Gollum, unaware of its abilities. The fourth phase of Initiation, Atonement with the Father arises during the
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