English 101 Summer 2010 Day 3
- Create Your Own Rituals—1030 Tribe.
- The Hero's Journey
- A pattern of all human experience—reflected in all literature and film.
- Like the Rite of Passage, the Hero's Journey involves a separation, initiation and a return.
- The stages of the Hero's Journey usually—but not always—follow a standard sequence.
- We all go through many Journeys in our lives as we grow and learn.
- A pattern of all human experience—reflected in all literature and film.
- Hero's Journey Overview, review.
- Read aloud second half of 70 to end.
- On your own: "Understanding Gawain's Journey"
- Discussion as a class.
- Key Concepts:
- We may not know our real goal when we start our Journey, or our goal may change along the way.
- The challenges we face in our Journey always reflect our own needs, fears and weaknesses.
- We will face our greatest fear or weakness in the Abyss.
- Objects can become symbols of concepts.
- We may not know our real goal when we start our Journey, or our goal may change along the way.
- Origin of Our Image of Satan, the Devil—Read aloud.
- Read The End of the Eternal Spring.
- Answer "Food for Thought" questions on page 86.
- Answer "Food for Thought" questions on page 86.
Homework: The Legend of the Buddha and "Interpreting the Buddha Legend and the Buddha's Journey"
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Found this interesting entry to the private journal of Joseph Campbell: I begin to think that I have a genius for working like an ox over totally irrelevant subjects. … I am filled with an excruciating sense of never having gotten anywhere—but when I sit down and try to discover where it is I want to get, I'm at a loss. … The thought of growing into a professor gives me the creeps. A lifetime to be spent trying to kid myself and my pupils into believing that the thing that we are looking for is in books! I don't know where it is—but I feel just now pretty sure that it isn't in books. — It isn't in travel. — It isn't in California. — It isn't in New York. … Where is it? And what is it, after all? (www.jcf.org)- About Joseph Campbell
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