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a hero cycle framework
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English
10th Grade
06/10/2012

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call to adventure
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call to action by a herald
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refusal of the call
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refusal, suffers and answers
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mentor/companions
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after the hero accepts call, he meats mentor, who gives advice or a weapon
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crossing threshold
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must cross to an unknown world
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threshold guardians
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make sure that the hero is worthy of entering the new world. works to protect the confines of the world
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belly of the whale
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instead of passing the threshold, he passes into a new zone for rebirth
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road of trial
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a dream landscape of ambiguous fluid forms. succession of obstacles amplifying conciousness.
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meeting with the goddess
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ultimate trial a marriage between the hero and motherly or queenly figure. hero's mastery in life
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woman as temptress
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he rejects a female figure, and expands his awareness. the diff between his past subjective outlook and the truth
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atonement with the father
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reconciles the tyrant
merciful aspects of father like authority
understands himself, and father
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apotheosis
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heroes ego disintigrates with big expansion of conciousness. idea of reality has changed allowing himself to sacrifice himself
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ultimate boon
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ready to obtain what he wanted.
it will benifit society
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refusal of return
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finds bliss and enlightenment, doesn't want to give boon
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magic flight and pursuit
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after getting boon, but before getting home, opposition strikes again
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rescue from without
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hero needs to be rescued by his ordinary world.
either because he doesn't want to go back
or because he can't
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crossing the return threshold
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returns to the ordinary world and accepts it as real
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master of two worlds
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because of his boon and experience, he can now understand both worlds he was in
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freedom to live
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gives boon to man
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