About This Lesson
Similar to a plot diagram or the types or literary conflict; the hero's journey is a pattern of structure and/or stages that a hero wades through to completion. Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, created this cycle after researching and reviewing numerous myths and stories from different times and regions of the world. What he found was that they all share the same fundamental principles. This spawned "Hero's Journey" also known as the Monomyth. The most basic version has 12 steps while more detailed versions can have up to 17.
