The Hero's Journey Analysis

Every story has a hero with a mission, who represents acts of bravery using his/her abilities and strengths. Joseph Campbell created a scheme, most known as “The Hero’s Journey”, which best represents the stages a hero often forgoes, encountering trials before reaching the ultimate goal. There’s twelve stages divided into three parts that one must go through to be considered a hero including: the departure, the fulfillment, and the return. In fightclub, the narrator forgoes into the hero’s journey to meet his new self. I have written a poem using a quote from the movie while describing how the narrator was feeling throughout each stage.

In the poem, the words “It’s Only After We Have Lost” describe the departure part. “It’s Only” represents the frustration of the narrator of living the same live, he seeks for better things but is scared of stepping out of his comfort zone; best described as the ordinary world stage.

“Free” represents the narrator finally escaping from all of that attached him to his old self, most known as the reward stage. In this stage, the hero takes possession of the treasure won by facing death. In the word “To”, the narrator finally realizes that is time to go back to the ordinary world, most known as the road back, ensuring that his new self isn’t changed again. The word “Do”, the narrator is confronted with the death of Bob, an emotional individual, who was throughout the transition of the narrator. The narrator has the option to let his death destroy him or strengthen him, he chooses to bear with the pain and move on, also known as the resurrection stage. The word “Anything”, symbolizes the last stage, Return with Elxi, where the narrator expresses that he has returned to be a leader and help others. In this stage, the hero has the power to transform the world as the hero has been transformed. The return part symbolizes that the hero returns with triumph, ready for a new