Campbell Blog Prompt #1

After you have read the first half of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, watch the following videos and then write a post in response to the Blog Prompt below:

The Big Picture: Instructor Videos

Watch the following videos for a greater understanding of the underlying concepts of Campbell’s book. In the video I will cover such things as:

• Monomyth: Microcosm and Macrocosm, Inner and Outer, Part and Whole
• The Hero’s Initiation into the Mysteries
• Eternity and Time

Videos:

1. The One, Shape-Shifting yet Marvelously Constant Story
2. Joyful Participation in the Sorrows
3. The Nonduality of Tragedy and Comedy

Prompt for Campbell Blog Post #1

Then in your blog post explore the following points:

• What are the typical stages in the Hero’s Journey as Campbell describes it?
• What seems to be Campbell’s major point (or points) in his Prologue, entitled “The Monomyth”?
• How do you see Campbell’s description of the Hero’s Journey illustrating the principles he is concerned with in the “Monomyth” Prologue?