Fiction Guide: The Hero w/a Thousand Faces: Analyzing the importance of Dreams & Redemption in Story-Telling
Yet another Fiction Guide
At the end of Chapter 2 of his magnum opus Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell one of the pre-eminent scholars on the topic of Comparative Literature, and Mythology expounded upon the themes of dream-like qualities in story-telling.
The idea being that there is ultimately a dreaminess to the Hero’s victory over adversity and that this invites men…