percy jackson and the 17 stages of the monomyth as elucidated by Joseph Campbell

     In Quicksand , Helga attempts to embark on a Heroine's Journey, travelling from place to place to seek a life that grants her satisfaction and happiness. Yet, despite her attempts to go through the motions of a Heroine's Journey, she eventually fails decisively. In the later chapters of the novel, instead of finally achieving self-actualization, she finds herself trapped in a hellish and stifling life of child-rearing as a reverend's wife. Why is that so? How does Helga, after all this travelling and experiencing, fail so devastatingly on her journey? The answer lays in how she eventually diverges from the Heroine's journey, in which she eschews the final step of integrating the masculine and feminine, accepting the  role which stops her journey in its tracks.     In Maureen Murdock's version of the heroine's journey, the final stage of the journey involves integrating the masculine and feminine after a continuous reckoning with gender expression and g...

time for mentally stable blog post march! While reading through Schmidt's version of the Heroine's journey, I had a thought.  How, in "The Illusion of the Perfect World," could there be a coping strategy called "Disappointed?" Doesn't the existence of something depressing inherently break the illusion of the Perfect World before it can begin? How would a depressed person be able to think that the world is perfect? Well, in Quicksand , we can see some of that 'depressed' heroine, and see how she attempts to navigate her depressing world, before being hit with a betrayal. Helga, from the very beginning of the book, feels disillusioned with her current life. From the first few chapters, Helga already realizes that her life at Naxos is terrible, and chooses to abandon the South for Chicago. The most direct way of thinking about this in the context of a Heroine's Journey would be consider this first part of the book as some sort of separation from...

So you guys have read Siddhartha, and understand the general plot of the book, right? Where he makes Kamala preggers, Kamala dies, and then Siddhartha adopts the son. And he runs away. And Siddhartha gets really sad, but then realizes that he has to let his son go his own way. Joseph Campbell. Hero's journey. Atonement with the father. Atonement with the father. Atonement with the father. Atonement with the father. Atonement with the father.  Siddhartha goes through this by taking on the role of his own father, thereby realizing his perspective and undergoing an atonement process.   Patrick Starrhartha attains enlightenment with the help of holy man Spongudeva I, Maxwell He, am Siddhartha. Hence the title. Sorry about it being so long. Yes, you read that right. I am Siddhartha. You are Siddhartha too! According to Siddhartha, at least. So, since you are Siddhartha as well, you are in agreement with me. You may say "No, I am not Siddhartha, I disagree", but since in every ...