Joseph Campbell's Call To Heroism

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throughout the film Edmund fully embodies Joseph Campbell’s model for the call to heroism. He is called several times with varying degrees of intensity and urgency and finally accepts the call the third time. Initially the call is manifested through Lucy when he first goes into Narnia. Lucy and Edmund go back into their world to tell their siblings, and Edmund refuses the call by denying that Narnia exist. This frustrates the audience in the fact that any doubt his siblings have in Edmunds story would immediately be recanted when they all see Narnia, however Edmund puts more value on his self-image and refuses. Bollingen once put it “Perhaps they are afraid of what might happen the them”. [Add citation] Indeed, from the evidence that can be gathered at this point in the movie, the only …show more content…
This call is more urgent then the first for several reasons. For one the delivery of the message, at least from Edmunds point of view is coming from more of a reputable source. He is in a new world and the only knowledge source that he has is telling him he will need to become a hero. The urgency of this message is also greater then Lucys simply due to the tone and the setting that he is in. the beavers makes an effort to emphasize the severity of the situation in the way they talk and act which is effective in emphasizing this message Edmund. Edmund however refuses the call for a second time when he goes to join the white witch. [ADD MORE] The call to become a hero is made to Edmund for a third time and in this case he accepts in. Once rescued from the enemy camp Aslan has a talk with Edmund and inquires him into his army. At this point, Edmund has a character shift from a selfish in the moment mindset to more of a future oriented mindset. He realizes that he doesn’t actually hate his siblings and accepts the call to becoming a hero in order to help save