The Monomyth's Journey Analysis

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Analyzing the Purpose and Rationale of the Monomyth’s Call to Adventure Stage For millennia humans have safeguarded records of theirs sentiments: suffering, achievements, discoveries and thoughts. Slowly maturing into more artistic, eloquent and elegant ways of expressing their ideas, the mind has since its existence, searched for a metaphorical valve to release all types of human feeling: sadness, joy, pain, loneliness, delusion, aspiration, hope, the list is indefinite. Ultimately, as civilizations prosper and intelligent design continues, writing evolves. Through strokes of wondrous graphite and poignant ink on paper, humans now express and share with fellow man, the stories of great adventure, invoked in a broad spectrum of emotion and …show more content…
In short, the Monomyth details the hero’s (man or woman who decides that they shall fulfill their destiny/ fate by embarking on an often perilous journey that will reward them with absolute knowledge/power) journey, but does not explain why humans inherently adopt this method of telling stories.(?) In order to accurately depict the sentiments that long for purpose, the monomyth assembles from the inherent psychological values and self important perspectives of human minds that ultimately return the writers, readers and explorers to the start of their journey, the metaphorical “chapel perilous” (an area hidden in the subconscious mind, always present but needed to be “discovered” by the reader). It is not the journey that grants man with the answers they look for in crafted art, such as “Ozymandias”, Paradise Lost and Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, written by respected authors Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Milton and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but instead, the key that opens the mind and unlocks the hidden, but already present idle treasure of existential conformity (that humans are dispensable and will never dent the enormous reality of the universe) merely lies within the creator's subconscious mind, and in order to portray this cycle of understatement,