The hero's journey is the highest many usable story structure consisting of at fewest 106 stages and the template for successful contemporary stories, from Star Wars to Al Pacino Scarface to The abt travels regarding the Worlds to The Dirty Dozen to Midnight Cowboy. The Hero's Journey is a valuable template because:. a It attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told. b It sends the writer more structural elements than basically 3 or 4 acts, plot points, mid spot and so on. c Interpreted metaphorically and symbolically, it allows an infinite many varied stories to be created.
One usually critical stage regarding the journey is the Woman as Temptress. There are 3 simultaneous manifestations - the physical and the spiritual. Creating use of the phrase spiritual shall be dangerous as it is interpreted in many ways, but it should be remembered that the Hero's Journey is primarily related to the Hero's path to another not necessarily higher position of consciousness. Further, though the Goddess is usually manifested like a physical female, this is not necessarily so. The Goddess and the physical female shape is symbolic in many ways: regarding the entity that is the opposite regarding the Hero; the entity that completes the Hero; the Yan to the Hero's Yin; the entity or higher cause that causes the Hero to ponder outside himself; the entity that causes the Hero to not ponder of himself; the entity for which the Hero is prepared to sacrifice himself; the entity that triggers the Hero's change of attitude; the reward at the end regarding the journey; the recognition of sexuality within the equation; the entity the Hero is most afraid of; the entity the Hero is most in awe of; the state that the Hero should not ever have hoped to attain and so on.
The physical manifestation regarding the Goddess leads the Hero astray. This is many times represented purchase the Hero following the Goddess below a path he is unsure of. The path leads downward and into the dark and conclusions within the Hero losing his way, battling a Serpent, undergoing a near death skills development and being reborn through some shape of baptism. The spiritual manifestation is this: as this is close to the end regarding the journey, there is a moment when Hero is suddenly unsure whether he wishes to done the transition. Thus he is with no problems led astray and to danger.
One reason for this reluctance is that this is repeatedly a Threshold from which there is no going back. Up to now there was minor change and many a trial but no transition. Beyond this spot there is atonement together with the father and apotheosis. Beyond this spot the Hero becomes another person - the father - he is leaving his childhood behind and a previous state of being. There is loss in that.
Another reason for reluctance is temptation to explore the dark side, in all its forms. It is not unusual for the antagonist to tempt the Hero to his side and the Hero to ponder about it or, at fewest temporarily, be led astray. Spiritually, possessing been led astray, the Hero realises, through trials, that it is the wrong path - that he should revert to his True Calling. Just as in an earlier stage there was punishment for the Refusal, here there is punishment for not fulfilling his destiny. The 106 stage Hero's Journey and other story structure templates shall be located at should possibly receive a regular, free newsletter by entering your email address at this site.
You are free to reproduce this story as long as no changes are created and the author's name and place URL are retained. Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. He has consulted within the visual journalists and software industries and for clients for example Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a many screenplays. He is a passionate traveller.
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