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| place of safety contrasted with a place of danger |
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| symbol of rebirth contrasted to its absence |
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| innate wisdom vs educated stupidity |
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| instictively understanding more than those in charge |
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| hope contrasted with despair |
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| knowledge contrasted with ignorance |
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| the sky contrasted with the interior of the earth |
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| supernatural intervention |
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| when the gods act for or against a character |
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| attracted to an appealing man |
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| offers spiritual and emotional nourishment |
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| vulnurable woman who must be rescued |
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| plays a part in the heros downfall |
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| affair will end tragically |
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| either physical or psycological and cannot be healed |
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| nature vs mechanical world |
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| the natural world is good and technology is bad |
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| parallels the cycle of life |
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| will restore fertility to a waste land |
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| requires the hero to decend into a real or psycological hell |
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| with it comes an awareness about the world |
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| battle between two primal forces |
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| ceremonies which mark a rite of passage |
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| usually given to a hero by a mentor |
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| many of these combine to make a quest |
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| an experience involving a loss of innocence or happiness |
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| shows that nature is on the side of the hero |
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| evil figure with a good heart |
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| we know little about this characters childhood |
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| one that wants to possess another's soul |
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| will face anything to stay together |
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| young man from the provinces |
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| seen as a stranger when he returns to his home |
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| often serves as a mother or father figure |
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| their death makes them more powerful than they were in life |
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| may result from seperation at childhood |
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| figure banned from society |
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| mentor/ pupil relationship |
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| allows the hero to be taught the skills necessary to survive |
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| a perversion or desecration of the human body |
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| honorable and duty bound, he fights for goodness and right |
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| test's the hero's courage and worthiness to begin the journey |
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