The Hero's Journey In Star Wars

There’s no doubt that Star Wars is one of the most impactful films of all time, having changed the movie-making game ever since it premiered in 1977. It quickly became a global phenomenon and has accumulated some of the most passionate fans in the universe. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope is a great example to use in order to illustrate the properties discussed throughout the course. In this paper, I will analyze the entire movie. To begin, I will start by giving some basic information about the motion picture, such as the director and type of film. Next, I will provide a brief summary of the film.

Luke is broken, but is not yet ready to give up, as he escapes one last time. Luke runs away and escapes into an old church, launching into a soliloquy asking God for guidance. God’s answer comes in the form of desertion as the police encircle the church. Luke realizes that he’s a goner no matter what, so he approaches a window and shouts the famous line “what we have here is a failure to communicate.” In return for his final act of defiance he gets a fatal shot in the throat. Remaining defiant to the end is an expected characteristic of Luke’s courageous nature.

to destroy the Death Star is made. Luke is chased by Vader and Solo comes to the

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... on the planet of Tatooine – a desolate place seemingly made of solely sand, ruled not just by one sun but two – a young slave boy born to no father, spends his free time piecing together crafts from rusted junk to race in the lawless pod-races. Cursed with a name (at the time) of no significance, Anakin Skywalker is blind to the midi-chlorians racing through his veins and to the fact that he holds the greatest energy the force has ever seen. That is, until he is discovered by Qui-Gon Jinn and invited on a mission to protect the galaxy from the evil of Darth Maul, a Sith lord.

Beanball by Gene Fehler is about a star baseball player who gets hit in the face with a baseball. In this book Luke “Wizard” Wallace’s high school baseball team, Oak Grove, is playing their arch rival, Compton. It is the last inning where Luke is up to bat and gets hit in the face with a baseball by Kyle Dawkins, the Compton pitcher at the time. Both Dawkins and Wallace have been scouted by MLB teams. Luke Wallace is knocked out immediately after being hit by the pitch.

In just the course of A New Hope, Luke’s character changes immensely. The critical incident that sparks a change of his

"Star Wars" was arguably the first in a new breed of high concept, high budget sci-fi action films. It was directed by George Lucas and originally released in only a few cinemas in 1977. However, the buzz around the film grew, and it is now one of the highest grossing films of all time, and along with its sequels, prequels and re-mastered re-releases, has a large cult following. I feel this is because of Lucas` ability to engage the audience through careful use of sound and camera technique;

Episode IV was set during a time of war between the Rebellion, the good side, and the Empire, which is considered the evil side. The science fiction story is about a young man, Luke Skywalker, who travels into space to fight against the Empire. Luke is from the planet Tatooine, a desert, where he farms water with his uncle. Luke’s uncle buys two droids, R2D2 and C3PO, who happen to have been involved in the war and worked for the rebellion. Luke discovers a recording in one of the droids of Princess Leia saying she needed help, and that sparks the beginning of his journey. He meets Ben, also known as Obi-Wan Kenobi, who becomes his mentor, and teaches him how to use “the force”. In Star Wars, “the force” is a magical way for people to control things using their unconscious minds. Luke sets out on a journey into space to rescue the princess and join the Rebellion in the war effort. Luke and Obi-Wan meet Han solo, a pilot, and ask him to take them into space. They plan to go to Alderaan, Princess Leia’s home planet; however, they are unintentionally sucked into the Death Star, the spacecraft and weapon of the Empire. They find out that Princess Leia is being held in the Death Star, and they plan to help her escape. While Han and Luke try to help Leia, Obi-Wan is fighting Darth Vader, the evil leader of the Empire. Unfortunately, Obi-Wan is killed by Darth Vader; although, Luke, Han and Leia escape the Death Star. They go to a Rebellion headquarter and find the weak spot of the Death Star.

Heroes are seen all around us, in life, literature, and movies. Heroes like Superman, Captain America, and Thor are common, but have you ever thought of Luke Skywalker as an archetypal hero? Luke Skywalker is an aspiring young Jedi Knight, who is called to the quest of defeating the empire in the movie Star Wars IV: A New Hope, written and directed by George Lucas. Luke Skywalker demonstrates certain characteristics before, during, and after his quest that makes him an archetypal hero.

Star War hate it or love it, it has captured the minds and imaginations of millions of people. I remember watching Episode IV A New Hope when I was a little kid and was memorized by it. Loving everything about the movie from space travel to the mystery of the force. But now I lost all hope in Star Wars after the last two newest movies which are The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. In A New Hope you can actually see the journey of the hero, which follows Luke’s Journey from being a teenager to a man by the actions he took throughout the movie. In the new movie the force awakens Rey is supposed to be the hero and has to experience events in her life like Luke that will change her to be a hero that she was born to be. Yet after watching the newest movies I feel like there wasn’t much of the hero’s journey, and that they gave her powers that seem unrealistic for her level of training. Even Anakin Skywalker “the chosen one” had to train for years and he was barely able to fight legendary fighters like Count Dooku or Obi-Wan Kenobi.

There are ten steps of the journey, and they are all very important to shaping the hero, the steps are: conscious realm, unconscious realm, the call, departure, threshold, task-tribulator-trial, transformation of consciousness, ritual, and return. The first step is in the conscious realm, which is presented by Luke being on his home planet or land. It will transfer over to the unconscious realm as the second step ,when Luke and his friends leave land on a spaceship and starts traveling in space to the Death Star. Next is the calls, usually there is just one but in Star Wars there is a mini call and a major call. The mini call is Luke cleaning up R2D2 and find the plans that Leia sent to go to Obiwon. Luke thinks she is beautiful and she is a princess so he wants to do something that can help save her. The major call is after Obi-Wan, or Ben, saved Luke the plans is presented to him, Obi-Wan wants Luke to help him save the princess, Luke declines his offer because he can’t leave his Aunt and Uncle. After the call is the departure which is Luke, Ben, Han-Solo, Chewbacca, C3PO and R2D2 trying to leave the planet in a hurry on a spaceship but the storm troopers is trying to prevent them from leaving because they want R2D2. Eventually, they beat them and was able to leave and enter into space somewhat safely, getting past the threshold. The tasks are saving Leighia, getting away and out if the Death Star, escaping the Empires spaceships; which he did very heroically. The tribulator is his mentor, Obi-Wan, dying and with him losing so many people in few days it helps the trial come very easily. Now the trial is Luke becoming a fighter pilot for the Rebel forces to destroy the Death Star. Now the most important part is the transformation of consciousness, because it is usually at the climax and the changing point of the hero. The representation of this is when Luke stops using

he original trilogy begins with the Galactic Empire nearing completion of the Death Star space station, which will allow the Empire to crush the Rebel Alliance, an organized resistance formed to combat Emperor Palpatine 's tyranny. Palpatine 's Sith apprentice Darth Vader captures Princess Leia, a member of the rebellion who has stolen the plans to the Death Star and hidden them in the astromech droid R2-D2. R2, along with his protocol droid counterpart C-3PO, escapes to the desert planet Tatooine. There, the droids are purchased by farm boy Luke Skywalker and his step-uncle and aunt. While Luke is cleaning R2, he accidentally triggers a message put into the droid by Leia, who asks for assistance from the legendary Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi. Luke later assists the droids in finding the exiled Jedi, who is now passing as an old hermit under the alias Ben Kenobi. When Luke asks about his father, whom he has never met, Obi-Wan tells him that Anakin Skywalker was a great Jedi who was betrayed and murdered by Vader.[27] Obi-Wan and Luke hire the smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca to take them to Alderaan, Leia 's home world, which they eventually find has been destroyed by the Death Star. Once on board the space station, Luke and Han rescue Leia while Obi-Wan allows himself to be killed during a lightsaber duel with Vader; his sacrifice allows the group to escape with the plans that help the Rebels destroy the Death Star. Luke himself (guided by the power of

It was as if Luke subconsciously recognized his calling and I liked that his character was eager to see it through till the end because it immediately pulls the reader and audience into the center of the script’s

The reason myths are studied in today’s culture are because the stories are about the human condition, not about time or place. It is this versatility of myths, that allows Far East’s Ramayana to be mirrored in many ways by a far away galaxy’s Star Wars. The Ramayana’s lead hero is Vishnu, in the human form of Rama. The birth of Rama is divined by priests. The goal of Rama will be to defeat the evil Ravana. Star Wars starts in a similar fashion with the jedi legend of a chosen one, who can bring balance to the force. Unfortunatley, when Luke Skywalker is born, he his driven into hiding and is exiled to the outer rim of the galaxy. While living in exile in the Dune Sea, Luke makes a name forhimself as being the best pilot around town. Rama

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi strays from the hero tradition set in Beowulf due to Luke Skywalker’s struggle to maintain his morality. A true hero is morally righteous, and Wiglaf portrays an accurate example in Beowulf. While witnessing his king being defeated, Wiglaf announced, “ I’d rather burn myself than see flames swirling around my lord,” before going to his rescue (783). Wiglafs’s selfless and ethical nature strengthens his role as the stereotypical hero in the story tradition, while Luke’s internal conflict with the dark side derails Star Wars from following the hero tradition story. When Luke and Darth Vader face each other the emperor attempts to tap into Luke’s dark side when he yells, “Use your aggressive feeling boy. Attack! Let