Who Is The Hero In Finding Nemo

In ancient times, the story of a hero was passed on orally and then eventually through the pages of a book. Almost every culture, whether it be Greek or Norse, told tall-tales of heroes accomplishing great deeds, while simultaneously teaching an overall lesson. Heroes were defined by their attributes, most commonly courage and wit. Even by the 21st century, the mold for the stereotypical hero still lies untouched, but now the story is told through the scenes of a motion picture. In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, an unlikely hero sets out on a journey to recover his son from his captor (not to be confused with the other hero who lives in a pineapple under the sea). The hero, Marlin, who at the beginning of the movie lives in constant fear of the outside world, slowly gains his courage as his journey unfolds in Andrew Stanton’s animated movie, Finding Nemo.

However, their peaceful bliss vanishes after a shark kills Marlin’s wife and his children leaving, only one clownfish egg behind, Nemo. Marlin promises Nemo that he will never let anything happen to him; that promise gradually turns into extreme overprotective parenting. Once Nemo’s first day of school arrives, Marlin is unable to let go of his son; a brief fight leads Nemo to protest his father’s overprotectiveness by swimming beyond the reef. Nemo, now in the open ocean, gets caught by a scuba diver and is taken away from his father and home. In Finding Nemo, Marlin sets out on an epic adventure to recover his son, Nemo, fighting the darkest sea creatures of the deep and ultimately learning what it means to be a true parent. His journey, like countless others, succumbs to the phases of Joseph Campbell's monomyth journey, including the phases Separation, Initiation, and Return and the encounterance of multiple archetypal