Monomyth

Characteristics of the monomythic hero include:

(choose 3)

• personal loss or tragedy

• special powers

• unusual birth

• travel to temples of the gods

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What are the two worlds of the Hero's Journey?

• Microcosm & Macrocosm

• Mars and Venus

• The Known & the Unknown World

• Inner and Outer World

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The future hero is first given notice that his or her life is going to change.

• Call to Adventure

• Beginning of Adventure

• Experience with Unconditional Love

• Refusal of the Call

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When does the hero realize that he or she is changed?

• 3:00 Departure: leaves ordinary world

• 6:00 Crisis: dies & is reborn

• 9:00 Return to ordinary world 

•  1:00 Hears Call to Adventure

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This is the hero's normal world, where life is status quo, problems/conflicts don't trouble the hero, and he/she lives among mortals/non-supernatural beings.

• Refusal of the Call

• The Resurrection

• The Ordinary World

• Meeting with the Mentor

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A "point of no return" is crossed. The hero is committing to the journey. The hero leaves their ordinary world and enters into an unfamiliar/new world.

• The Road Back

• Approaching the Inmost Cave

• The Ordeal

• Crossing the Threshold

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Which of the following best describes the hero's journey?

• A hero begins in an unknown world and struggles alone against a great evil to reach his ordinary world again.

• It begins with an ordinary life, but is compelled to take a hero journey into the unknown. With help, the hero overcomes challenges and returns a changed person.

• A hero eagerly heads out to find a magical world and fight everything he sees so he can rule the world as a more powerful, wiser person.

• After becoming a powerful and important a hero misses his old life, so he returns to the unknown to be destroyed so he can come back as his old, ordinary self and return to his old ordinary life.

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The hero confronts death or faces his/her greatest fear. Out of the moment of death comes a new life.

• The Abyss

• The Atonement

• The Approach

• The Road Back

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Which best describes what happens after the hero's final battle or test according the The Hero's Journey?

• The find a bigger and badder enemy to fight to keep challenging themselves again and again.

• He/She marries the princess/prince and lives happily ever after.

• They become the master of the unknown and stays there as a new, more powerful person to rule and bring good to all of the people there.

• They are reborn as a changed person and returns to their ordinary world with the power to help and bring good to people.

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The Abyss

• the hero goes back to his known world.

• invites the hero into the adventure.

• the things the hero must overcome to complete his journey.

• the darkest, most challenging part of the hero's journey. the things the hero

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