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The Role of a Companion in Lost Girl In The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, he states that in the hero quest one of the aspects of the quest is to have a companion who assists the main hero on their quest. This has been shown in many different myths that have been studied and thus why Joseph Campbell placed this in his theory on what is essential for a hero quest narrative. In the television show Lost Girl, the series follows a succubus named Bo who has to face different challenges along her way through life. Bo’s companion, Kenzi, a human takes on these trials as well, even though she is not suppose to be apart of the Fae world that Bo belongs to. Kenzi follows along the idea of the companion of the hero similar to the companionship of Achilles and Patroclus and of …show more content…
This is the same for both myths and the show but there is one key difference between them. In Lost Girl when Kenzi dies to protect Bo she is not left in the underworld or even taken to the underworld. Like in the Norse mythology Kenzi is taken to Vallaha because she was in fact a warrior who died on the battlefield. However, Bo goes after Kenzi and thus stops her quest to save the one that she loves. This is different from that of Achillies who mourns for his friend but never goes after him, and Gilgamesh who after Enkidu dies goes after immortality. This helps to show that even though the idea of a heroes companion is still prominent the idea that society places on the companion is that the hero will never let them go. Overall Kenzi fits into Joseph Campbell’s theory on what a companion of a hero is but she takes on unique traits that are different than past myths. Kenzi takes on the metaphor of a heart of the hero and someone that the hero would stop their quest to come rescue. This helps to show that the ideas of society influence how stories change but continue with the same form as stories from the

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