Hero Cycle Harry Potter

The Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling are a well known and highly celebrated series. In the first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the audience is introduced to the main character, Harry. Harry is an embodiment of many common themes and devices in literature. However, Rowling manages to employ these literary tropes while creating a story entirely different from any other. The novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone provides an example of how to effectively utilize common literary motifs and archetypes without being cliché.

Commonly, most books that involve a hero subscribe to the idea of the hero's journey. The hero’s journey is a list of situations that many books use in order to tell their story. A story that uses the idea of the hero's journey revolves around one protagonist and their fulfillment of that journey. Mary Shelley in her book Frankenstein uses three different characters to fulfill the archetypal scenario of the hero’s journey and the quest for knowledge.

Harry Potter was a very famous series of fictional books and movies by J.K. Rowling. Harry is the main protagonist, who goes to a large, seven-story high castle supported by magic called Hogwarts. Through all the adventures of Harry’s life described in the books, I see it as a very intriguing topic to talk about. Diction, language, and imagery are going to be talked about for the fictional character chosen, also followed by answered questions to give a better idea, through details, of how Harry Potter really is seen.

Stage one of the Hero Cycle is called the Ordinary World. This is the hero’s everyday life, where he is oblivious to the adventure that is to come, and the reader learns details that may be helpful later in the story. In many stories, this stage shows the hero in a human world. This makes the hero character easier to identify with, thus making the him easier to emphasize with later on in the story.

These stages are what makes the story. They create and shape the hero. This is their journey. 12. Return- going back to ordinary life, only to repeat the cycle- Pg.67 “...adventure is always and

Harry’s departure from his old life is evident once he steps on to Platform Nine and Three Quarters to board the Hogwarts Express (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone). Leaving his previously known home is not difficult because of the ten years of neglect that occurred in the Dursley household. Harry has only been in two magical places and he already feels more comfortable than ever. Now that he has crossed over to the hidden world of magic, he is ready to embark on his adventure.

There are twelve stages a hero goes through before he goes on his journey. the first stage they go through is the ordinary world by showing the hero’s background and introducing the hero’s dilemma or a situation he/she is going through before they get called to adventure which is the second stage they go through. The hero is first given notice that his/her life is going to be different but most of the time the hero often refuses to accept the call to adventure because of a sense of duty, obligation, fear, insecurity but once they stumble into someone who teaches and guides them to become better and helps build up their confidence the hero then realizes that he can rise to the challenge. Then he/she goes through the crossing the threshold

being the main protagonist. As a child, Harry’s parent’s were murdered by the hideous and malicious creature named Voldemort, who once was a ordinary men but with sinister plans. Harry’s mother sacrificed her life to save her son when he was just an infant. This sacrifice, the love that she had for her son resulted in Voldemort's’ powers being destroyed temporarily. But, Voldemort would not accept defeat. His followers had given their all to bring Voldemort back to his full power, he was now even more dangerous than ever. The only barrier now standing in his way was Harry Potter. After all, only one of the two was destined to live.

List and describe where each of the 12 stages in the Hero’s Journey occur, which characters are involved and why. Give each stage a separate paragraph.

The Hero Cycle ties together all heros. It is a literary concept that illustrates the same pattern that almost all heros, from Beowulf to Harry Potter, follow. This cycle also connects genres, no matter how different, together in its most basic form. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, etc. However, the genre most associated to the Hero Cycle is fantasy, partly due to the Hero Cycles’ origins coming from fairy tale and old myths/epics of ancient days. Even modern fantasy has its stake on the Cycle itself. To share an example, one connected to the founding literary works of modern fantasy, is the Tale of Beren and Luthien.

A structure derived from Joseph Campbell's Monomyth theory taken from his book The Hero With A Thousand Faces and adapted by Christopher Vogler as the 12 Stage Hero's Journey. Essentially a detailed study of the Character Arc for your protagonist/hero which can be seen to match the more traditional three-act

Harry Potter believed he was just an ordinary child living an ordinary life. Little did he know, one event was going to change his life forever. In becoming a hero, Harry goes through three major stages. First he will go through the departure stage where he will get called to the adventure and the appearance of the supernatural aid. Secondly he will go through the initiation stage where he will have atonement with his father. Lastly he will go into the return stage where he will cross the returning threshold.

In the paper about J.K Rowling and Harry Potter, it is again brought into focus, how a hero, in this case Harry Potter, is a small humble person without power and authority, who generally finds themselves in very challenging circumstances with hardly any resources, yet step by step, and facing one challenge at a time, choses to pursue

Harry potter is the charismatic, humble and powerful protagonist of the world famous book Harry potter. Each of the eight novels chronicles one year during his life from the beginning of his grand adventures to the end. Destined from birth for spectacular and life changing tasks and missions Harry is our generation's fantasy hero. When we first meet Harry he is a bullied and modest boy living in the normal world alongside non magical fokes called Muggles unconscious of the hidden and secret wizarding world existing parallel to them. He grew up as an orphan , raised by his unloving aunt and uncle and are perpetually down trodden by those around him Later in life at the age 11 he discovers through the keeper of the keys that he is a wizard.

Joseph Campbell is well known for his work in comparative folklore and culture. This led him to discover the pattern known as the Hero’s Journey. Hero’s Journey can contain up to twelve steps and exists in many different types of aspects, such as Greek mythology and current popular culture. A good example of the Hero’s Journey is the 2001 production, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”. A young boy named Harry Potter is invited to study at Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is involved in a dangerous test of saving the wizarding community from the Dark Lord. This film portrays the Hero’s Journey because Harry leaves behind what he knows, then is taken to the wizarding world, and returns back from the supernatural beings