Fa Mulan Analysis

In stories, there is always a pattern that they all have in common. This certain pattern is known as the Hero’s Journey. There are varying descriptions of the Hero’s Journey steps but only the steps that are set by the teacher is used. These steps are the “The Call”, “Allies”, “Preparation”, “The Guardians of the Threshold”, “Crossing the Threshold”, “Road of Trials”, “Saving Experience”, “Transformation”, and ”Sharing the Gift”.This essay is explaining what the Hero’s Journey is in the book Whirligig by Paul Fleischman. The step that is coming up is the Call which is when the hero starts their journey.

“The Hero’s Journey” is a pattern of narrative identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell that appears in drama, storytelling, myth, religious ritual, and psychological development. It describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero, the person who goes out and achieves great deeds on behalf of the group, tribe, or civilization. The hero’s journey is divided into three sections departure, initiation, and return. The three sections are then divided into subsections that give a little more in detail journey that the so-called “hero” takes in the storyline. Hamlet and Simba are the main characters in the two storylines that take on the role of the hero.

"A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow men."

Aspects such as abnormality, the visits to the supernatural world, and greater knowledge gain than original expected of the epic hero archetype guide the reader through this story. Leading them to realize that without understanding the dangers of something irreversible mistakes may be made and yet at the same time wisdom allows for innovation and progress to

Despite the two differentiates of the Hua Mulan (Mulan) it’s witnessed that both characters are admitted to be in some relation to epic heroism. Additionally, recognizing the importance of her toils, Mulan is admired as a heroine and a representative for women’s empowerment society. Her meanings of an epic hero is demeanor-ed as the sacrificing, bravery, and the humbleness of a human being is what prosecutes an epic hero.

In life, heroes are everywhere. They fight crime, save lives, and basically just do good deeds. Heroes follow their journey, which, when written, is actually very cliché. A hero follows a set of events in their journey that are rarely changed. In this essay, two hero’s are examined, Santiago from The Alchemist, and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. These two stories seem very different, but in the end, are actually very similar. When examined closely, one may find that their journeys are very similar, following the events of a hero’s journey. This seemingly simple set of events is found in almost every heroic story. First is the problem. The hero is in a not quite perfect way of life, and needs to fix it. Then there is the refusal, the hero is called up to fixed the problem, but refuses for whatever personal reason. Then they are forced to go, and meet a mentor. This mentor gives them the wisdom that they need to get through the journey. It may even be what the hero is striving to be. Then they cross the threshold from their ordinary world to the new special world. The fifth and sixth parts can be interchangeable. Trials and allies/enemies, either can come first. Then they reach what they have been striving for, the liar, the cave, the final destination as a normal person. Once the hero reaches this part, they will be forever changed. At some point in this final destination, they will be killed and reborn, whether it is metaphorical or literal. After this they will fight

This is the first stage of the hero's journey, the ordinary world. But until a monstrous serpent set up his home in the Yung Mountains, and demanded that a young maiden be sacrificed to him “on the appointed day in the eighth month” each year (Rosenberg, 331). The people were forced to obey the Yung serpent, for none of the men that they sent were able to defeat it. This went on for nine years, but on the tenth year, a brave maiden volunteered to be the next sacrifice, our hero Chi Li. This is the call to adventure, it was she who called herself, her heart and her mind.

The Hero’s Journey is the route that a character must go through to become a hero. “The hero's journey is a narrative structure identified by Joseph Campbell as an archetypal map of the human spiritual quest. Drawn from the realm of myth and religion, the hero's journey was first presented in Campbell's book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1956). The concept reached mass audiences through Bill Moyers's interviews with Joseph Campbell in the 1988 PBS series The Power of Myth” (Holmes). According to Campbell, there are twelve steps for the hero to accomplish his or her journey :1. The ordinary world, 2. The call to adventure, 3. Refusal of the call, 4. Meeting with the mentor, 5. Crossing the threshold, 6. Tests, aliens and enemies, 7. Approach, 8. The ordeal, 9. The Reward, 10. The road back,11. The resurrection ,12. Return with the elixir. Contrasting the heroes in Beowulf and Judith journeys, the first and foremost difference is that they have different genders protagonists, however the traits that leads them to their journeys proves that they have the same values and qualities in which heroes from that period should have, such as glory, confidence, courage, and practicality. Additionally, they trust on the Christian God’s help to guide and to protect their people despite the unknown fate, they believe that the good will win the evil.

Moreover, by not truly completing the hero's journey he can not be considered a hero. The motif of supernatural aid connects to the ideas of independence. While also brings the question: To what extent can somebody be a hero if they never truly even take a

To complete this sociological journey I used the concepts from chapters 3,4,5, and 8 of the textbook Sociology: A Brief Introduction, 11th ed. by Richard T. Schaefer. Mulan is a Disney movie character that has to face many sociological problems that threaten her physically and sociologically. Her social role is to become an obedient wife to her future husband, but Mulan just could not conform to the gender role that was expected of her, thus creating a role conflict. And as the movie progresses Mulan refuses to give into the norms of China and instead trusts in her values and takes on the duty of protecting her significant others from the war against the Huns. In the process of training. She isn’t given many life chances because of her being apart of the group known as women and men don’t respect or understand this group. Mulan meets Li Shang, who has the achieved status of captain, but some soldiers believe that the title of captain is an ascribed status because of the status of his father. This causes conflict and insubordination between the captain and the soldiers. Mulan takes on the personality of Ping to hide her identity and this action eventually has severe consequences due to the impersonation of a soldier being a very serious crime that could’ve brought on a fatal punishment, but she was spared due to her heroics later on. This is her journey from a girl to a soldier.

In the movie Mulan by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook the directors show a women named Mulan who pretends to be a man to fight in the chinese war. The war emerges when the Huns invade China. The storyline of the movie takes place in China during the Hans dynasty. Mulan pretends to be a man so she can take her father’s place since he is too old to fight. Mulan takes her father’s armor and sword and escapes to the camp. Mulan signs up for war and she goes to a training camp. Being a man was difficult for Mulan. However she did obtain help from her two sidekicks Mushu a small dragon, and Cricket a lucky cricket. Mulan does experience some obstacles during her training. Some obstacles Mulan comes across to are reaching an arrow at the top of a pole and running up

However, since the hero is part of society, the journey is also one of personal development. On a more psychological level, one could suggest that the hero’s quest is symbolic of all personal conflict. Conflict begins when a problem arises that must be dealt with. Most people, at first, refuse to come to terms with whatever this problem may be, and attempt to ignore it. With enough mental determination and/or aid from an outside source, however, one can bring themselves to cross the first threshold, and begin their journey into the heart of the problem. For example, victims of rape or other types of abuse must face what is haunting them in order for it to be exorcised properly.

Myth, being deeply ingrained in our collective cultural psyche, naturally manifests in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”. Marjorie Garber highlights several examples of such manifestations in the story, arguing cogently the story has a mythical element, That being said, I believe that Garber’s mythical lens can be expanded upon to also include Joseph Campbell’s framework of the monomyth. This framework postulates that all stories which include a protagonist include a common “Hero’s Journey”: a set of archetypes and stages present across all forms of human storytelling. “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” is fully consistent with both a general mythic lens as well as the more specific monomythic lens as its characters and events correspond with the archetypes and stages of a hero's journey in addition to more general mythic elements.

The archetypal situation of the the call to adventure is where Gawain’s moral development begins, even before it has taken shape the analysis of where our hero begins is paramount to observe the growth that ensues throughout this adventure. In Hero With a Thousand Faces, calls to adventure are paramount, “They are the result

Zhang Yimou’s thrilling film Hero is both an emotional and exhilarating experience. Hero combines the use of action-packed scenes as well as a beautiful love story. Nameless, Broken Sword and Flying Snow, the main characters, team up to eventually kill the King of Qin who had murdered a number of people with the Qin army including both Flying Snow and Nameless’s father. Although the Qin army is an enemy of Broken Sword and Flying Snow’s people, it is a personal issue to assassinate the king. Throughout the film the audience is exposed to the developing love that forms between Broken Sword and Flying Snow. While their love unfolds, many battles of combat arise between enemies and allies. When Nameless joins Broken Sword and Flying Snow,