

Neo, the protagonist of The Matrix, is a hacker living and ordinary-yet unfulfilling-life. The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Matrix …a fateful region of both treasure and danger…a distant land, a forest, a kingdom underground, beneath the waves, or above the sky, a secret island, lofty mountaintop, or profound dream state…a place of strangely fluid and polymorphous beings, unimaginable torments, superhuman deeds, and impossible delight. The unknown world to which the hero is called is, according to Campbell: The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell Campbell puts it like this:Ī hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. Without this introduction to hero's life before the adventure begins, there would be no character arc that shows how the hero has changed by the end. The Call to AdventureĮvery hero's story begins with the ordinary world. Keep in mind, however, that the hero's quest occurs across media, including oral storytelling, literature, movies, or stage. Throughout our exploration of the hero's journey, I'll use The Matrix, a film written and directed by the Wachowskis, to provide an example of each stage. Across cultures, the story of the hero's quest contains a common journey and stages. While other researchers have used Campbell's writing as a basis and renamed the stages, the foundation of the journey and the order of the steps is the same. Through his years of research, he discovered that across cultures, the story of the hero's quest contains a common journey and stages. Joseph Campbell, an American researcher who wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces, called this story the monomyth. The hero will also face his shadow self, which is perhaps the most frightening antagonist of all. On it, the hero will gain both adversaries and allies, and will face a great evil.

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It's the story of a hero who leaves the ordinary world to go on an adventure full of peril. Humanity has a common story that is as old as time-one that we've been telling again and again, while only the details change.
