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Charles Darnay Hero's Journey

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Charles Darnay, from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, receives a message in the mail that sets him upon the treacherous path known as the Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is a literary structure, coined and first employed by Joseph Campbell. Darnay experiences the arguably three most vital portions of the Hero’s Journey, call to adventure, the abyss, and his return. Consequent to the arrival of Gabelle’s letter, Darnay rushes to Paris, his objective: recovering his family’s servant. Darnay starts “upon his journey to-morrow night [after receiving the letter] … [an] unseen force was drawing him fast to itself,” gravitating him towards Paris (Dickens 240). Motive drives Charles Darnay to pursue Gabelle’s imprisoners, leaving in secret

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