Hero Cycle Flashcards
What is Structure two?
The hero leaves the comfortable place and goes past a threshold into an area they are unfamiliar. They pass the threshold from conscious to unconscious and can discover what truly makes them happy; bliss. The bliss is what drives us, but sometimes the conscious is what dictates our decisions. Sooner or later they pass back over the threshold and base their decisions off of bliss.
What are thou Shalts?
Something everyone has, thou shalt not steal.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
A late 19th century existentialist, he wrote thus spoke Zarathustra, and taught the three metamorphoses of soul.
What are the three metamorphoses of soul?
You start out life as a camel, the goal of which is to take on as many thou Shalts as you can, then the camel goes to the desert where it transforms into a lion, the goal of the lion is to slay the dragon of thou Shalts, once this dragon is slain the lion turns into a baby. Babies don’t have thou Shalts.
What are the steps in structure four?
1) Call to adventure and step out of what’s comfortable.
2) helpers.
3) threshold.
4) trials.
5) here there be monsters.
6) nadir.
7) flight.
8) rescue.
9) Return.
What is amor Fati?
This is the love of ones fate, this comes into play when the hero decides to voluntarily take the adventure he has been offered.
Where does refusal take place?
After the call to adventure, usually when the hero is getting to the threshold.
What types of archetypes are the helpers?
Wise old men, mentor, goddess, fool/sidekick.
What is a threshold?
Familiar becomes unfamiliar. This is largely when helpers show up and refusal takes place.
What types of trials are there?
Physical or mental/spiritual, they come in three sub forms fear, desire, duty.
What is the nadir?
The death motif, the lowest point of the hero, it often is accompanied by god/goddess encounter, there also can be an elixir, or a magical potion that heals. There is also apotheosis.
What is apotheosis?
Having god like powers.
What is here there be monsters?
Once past the threshold in the trials monsters can appear these can come from within the hero.
Where does bliss lie? Where do we think we’re happy?
Unconscious. Conscious.
What is flight?
Leaving the nadir.
Then there’s rescue, is this always necessary?
No, not always necessary. Rescue is when the hero is saved from a place, like wonderland, a place you can’t stay, the unconscious.
What is return?
When the hero comes back to the place they are familiar with, this time hopefully they have changed and have come back with the goal of their mission. For the three metamorphoses of soul without thou Shalts.
The call to adventure is ….?
Voluntary, or involuntary.
What can the propose of the adventure be?
Grail, father quest a physical father or who you are, your center, or it can be saving people
What is self sacrifice?
Something that separates a hero from someone else.
What are the events of structure one?
Any simple tale of adventure the hero starts in a place that is very familiar. Then the hero stakes a step out of the comfortable. Then he gets to a place where something dies within him. After this death the hero is renewed and there’s something different about them when they come home.
What is the baby in structure three driven by?
Original impulse.
