Hero's Journey Vs Monomyth

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Name one thing that all heroes have in common? Is it Courage? Leadership? Wisdom? While this is usually true, the best answer; the story. From Luke Skywalker to Simba and Katniss Everdeen to Sherlock Holmes, all stories about adventures of a hero can be defined using the same sequence of actions coined the ‘Monomyth’ or ‘Hero’s Journey’ by Joseph Campbell. This can be proved by comparing two stories in which the heroes appear to be very distinct. In the musical Man of La Mancha, by Dale Wasserman, and the film Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace, the central characters are archetypes of the Monomyth/Hero’s Journey. Both Alonso Quijana of Man of La Mancha, who transforms himself into Don Quixote, and Edward Bloom of Big Fish experience each of the basic