The Labyrinth Hero's Journey

In a harsh world, desire is something that can bring vulnerability to any person. Cristiana Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is a riveting tale about two sisters who handle desire differently. One knows desire exists, but has the maturity and courage to not give in to her own yearnings, whereas the other cannot control her desires and pays dearly for them. Love is a strong theme in “Goblin Market” and is shown through the love that Lizzie has for her sister, Laura. Lizzie does not let her desire get the best of her when hearing the goblin men, she “thrust a dimpled finger / In each ear, shut her eyes and ran” (Rossetti 67-68). However, it is Laura that falls into a desire for the goblin men through curiosity: “Curious Laura chose to linger / Wondering at each merchant man” (Rossetti 69-70). The difference in the sisters understanding of desire cannot be better shown than in these lines.

The director Guillero Del Torro uses many motifs and parallels in his film Pan's Labyrinth. The most obvious parallel in the film is the parallel between the real world and the fantasy world of the character Ofelia. Both worlds are filled with danger. At any second in both of these worlds your life could be lost. Del Torro separates the real world from the fantasy world with many visual motifs.

Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epic with Pan’s Labyrinth released in 2006, a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Franco's Spain. Del Toro's sixth and most ambitious film, Pan’s Labyrinth harnesses the formal characteristics of classic folklore to a 20th Century period. Del Toro portrays a child as the key character, to communicate that children minds are not cemented. Children avoid reality through the subconscious imagination which is untainted by a grown-up person, so through a point of an innocent child more is captured. The film showcases what the imagination can do as a means of escape to comfort the physical trials one goes through in

Unlike other blissfully enchanted film genres, this evocative fairytale becomes a surreal escape into the work of Guillermo Del Toro. This chilling story confines make believe verses reality through the eyes of a young girl. Two worlds are represented within Pan’s Labyrinth, a cold hard fascist regime in Spain, and a captivating fantasyland both conveyed through visual story telling. The striking surrealism of the fantasy world becomes reflections in reality, providing small visual cues that increase as the story unfolds, unveiling a grim interaction between Ophelia and the new world she has encountered. The style becomes the narrative within the film, and the use of mise-en-scene

Becoming a Man When the word hero is brought up, names such as Harry Potter or Katniss Everdeen probably come to mind. While Harry and Katniss might seem like absolutely different people, but they do have one thing in common. All heroes follow a pattern called the hero's journey. The hero's journey is a common cycle that most protagonists follow.

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”(Joseph Campbell). Joseph Campbell showed how important hero’s are by creating the Hero’s Journey and that you can be a hero just through writing and showing it through different characters. A hero shows that you can help other people to make the world better

In 2014, I attended the Hero's journey summer program in hope to discover myself and to become a better man. My father who has attended the program many of times introduced me to the foundation and thought I should give it a try under the Young Men’s program with 8 other teens from around the world. Nervous but also excited about discovering who I truly was and what brotherhood really meant I found myself becoming the best of friends with these guys for 7 days. During the trip I learned that in relationships it is not only about how much you have in common, but that you trust each other and can work together as one. I could not tell you those guys last name or their favorite video game but I can tell you that I knew they had my back no matter what.

Huckleberry Finn is on a quest to see who he really is and while doing so he completely ignores society's beliefs. This quest is often referred to as the Hero’s journey, in this quest the hero will run into many conflicts and when he/she is finished they will be humbled. The quest in divided into 10 parts but the 3 main ones are the call, transformation and the return of the hero. Within each stage there are steps the hero will go through and change from who he is to who he needs to become.

Joseph Campbell, an American mythological researcher, wrote a famous book entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces In his lifelong research Campbell discovered many common patterns running through hero myths and stories from around the world. Years of research lead Campbell to discover several basic stages that almost every hero-quest goes through Many followers of Campbell have defined the stages of his mono-myth in various ways, sometimes supplying different names for certain stages. For this reason there are many different versions of the Hero’s Journey that retain the same basic elements. these steps are ;ordinary world : This step refers to the hero's normal life at the start of the story, before the adventure begins. Call to Adventure:

Pan’s Labyrinth is of a young girl named Ofelia and her expectant mother Carmen who arrives at the premises owned by her mother's new husband, who’s an army officer named Captain Vidal. Upon their arrival Ofelia notice an ancient maze called Pan’s Labyrinth that struck her curiosity. Later, Ofelia returns to Labyrinth with the guidance of a fairy that introduce Ofelia to the Faun, who tells her that she is a legendary lost princess. But, for Ofelia to return to her kingdom she must complete three dangerous tasks. The first task was to bury three magic stones deep down inside the belly of an ancient fig tree. Where Ofelia was met by a giant toad who she fed the magic stones to and retrieved a key. After retrieving the key Ofelia discover that her dress had been ruined as it laid in the mud because of the bad weather that suddenly came about. As Ofelia returns from the woods she later discovers that her mother health is steadily declining. So, the faun gave Ofelia a magical root to place under her mother’s bed in a bowl milk with two drops of blood. The magical root was to ensure the survival of Ofelia’s unborn brother. For Ofelia’s next task, she must go in the underground chamber with a horrifying creature called the Pale Man to retrieve and item using the key she found in the fig tree. But, the only way to access the underground chamber is with drawing of a door using chalk. However, there is a catch, Ofelia mustn’t remain in the chamber too long or eat any of the food in the chamber. So, that the creature wouldn’t be disturbed from its slumber.

I looked at my opponent across the mat. He was much stronger than me, but that wouldn’t be a problem. I am quicker than him though. And speed, always beats strength.

In the 1986 fantasy/action film Labyrinth (Jim Henson:1986) The plot closely follows the story of the protagonist Sarah in this coming of age film. The story follows Sarah on her quest to find her younger brother Toby,  who has been kidnapped by the Goblin King, Jareth. Sarah is introduced to a variety of fantasy creatures on her travels through the Labyrinth.(Wikipedia 2017). A few of which assist her on her quest. I am going to analyse how the characters in, labyrinth impact Sarah 's character development.The

The Hero’s journey, or in its more correct terminology the Monomyth is an object from the area of comparative mythology. Its definition in the most basic of forms, it is a pattern or outline that is used in storytelling, usually the myth. This pattern is found in many famous pieces from all around the world. In the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces from 1949 by author Joseph Campbell, this pattern is described in detail. Campbell describes that numerous myths from different times and areas of the world seem to share an identical structure in their storytelling. He summarized this with a well-known quote found at the intro of his book:

Christina Rossetti was a nineteenth-century English poet that incorporated her views on religion and the bible into her poetry. Rossetti, along with her mother and sister, were involved with the Anglo-Catholic movement and lived life based on strict religious principles. The poet typically wrote about sin and temptation, along with redemption and the views of women in the nineteenth-century. Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market, is a true example of how the poet incorporated her life morals and views of the world around her into her poems. When the poem was first published, readers thought that it was a “simple moral fable for children,” but after analyzing the poem, it is comprehended that Christina Rossetti was writing about deeper meanings

CRACK THUD ¨Throw him in the labyrinth.¨ said the dark voice, And then darkness fell over my memory obliterating it. Ouch geez, Where am I? Who am I? While I was sitting up I rubbed the back of my head to ease some pain from it and a painful flash of my memory returned briefly I remembered A storm, a cursed ruby, and a gang of thieves.