Under their apparent diversity, the great myths of humanity present us with the same map of yearnings and fears that every human being experiences on the way to self-discovery. The Hero’s Journey is a pattern of narrative that appears in drama, storytelling, myth, religious ritual, and psychological development. It describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero,...
Continue ReadingThe Hero’s Journey is a powerful, dynamic, archetypal journey that can be applied to personal experience, or to the process of constructing a narrative that works as a screenplay, novel or short story. It works as both. The Hero’s Journey is about both a universal and a personal story. Joseph Campbell was a world-renowned expert in comparative mythology and a professor...
Continue ReadingThe Hero and Heroine’s Writing Journeys Siofra O’Donovan’s Creative Writing Workshops at the Novara Centre are inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell, whose ‘Monomyth’ or ‘Hero’s Journey’ is a universal blueprint for all myths and stories across the world. Under their apparent diversity, the great myths of humanity present us with the same map of yearnings and fears that...
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