Campbell's Hero Female Hero Aristotle & Frye
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SEPARATION
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SEPARATION
Innocent World |
EXIT FROM THE GARDEN
grey world;
imprisonment in domestic
enclosures
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Fall/ Peripetia
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Call to Adventure
--Refusal of Call
--Preemptory Answer
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Call to the quest
--Refusal of Call
-- recognize guides as captors take on role of
spiritual orphan
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Complication
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Supernatural Aide
--Weapon
--Talisman
--Map
--Mentor
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Supernatural Aide
--No Weapon
--Talisman;Map
--No
Mentor or flawed
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Gathering of
Companions
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Maybe one-- not a
group
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Crossing the Threshold
--Threshold Guardians
-- Inn
on the Borderlands
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slay dragon of
virginity myth
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Belly of the Whale
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Green World
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INITIATION
Road of Trials
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THE EMPEROR’S NEW
CLOTHES
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Agon
(struggle)
Pathos
(suffering)
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Brother Battle
--Failed Hero
--Enemy's
Skin
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Green World Lover
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Meeting With the Goddess
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Light Man Vs.
Dark Man
Seducer
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Temptation
Away from Quest
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Re-entrapment in
domestic enclosures
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Abduction/ Night
Sea Journey
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Dragon
Battle (Rutual Death/ Dismemberment)
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slay dragon of romantic love; discover qualities
she needs are within her
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Sparagmos (ritual death/dismemberment)
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Atonement /
Recognition by the Father
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Failure of False
Father
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Anagnorisis (recognition of identity)
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Apotheosis
(becoming a God)
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A Woman is Her
Own Mother
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Ultimate
Boon Granted
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Discovers that she has qualities she needs inside herself
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RETURN
Refusal of Return
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A WOMAN IS HER OWN MOTHER
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Denoument (resolution)
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Magic Flight
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Rescue from
Without
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Rescue by heroic
mother
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Crossing the
Return Threshold
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Master of Two
Worlds
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The New Family ,
Or
A Community of One
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Marriage/ party/
dance -- acceptance into new community
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Freedom to Live
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Rebirth of
Creativity
The World Transformed
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SOURCES
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Frye, Northrop. The Anatomy of Criticism.
- Pearson, Carol and Katherine Pope. The Female Hero in American and British Literature. New York: R.R. Bowler Co., 1981.
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