[HPforGrownups] Harry as "classic" hero (was Re: Lily's Sacrifice)

[Barbara Purdom]

No: HPFGUIDX 19548


 > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Belle_Starr_777 at y...
> wrote:
> > Absolutely, positively, anyone interested in the
> hero aspect should read Joseph Campbell's "Hero With
A Thousand Faces"...

then rjcarnegie wrote:
> 
> I always understood that (as you touched on) it was
> more or less adapted for movie theatres as _Star
Wars_ - is the book better? ;-)
  
Campbell's work is not fiction or fairy-tale; it is an
analysis of mythology and fairy-tales (although
applying the hero-cycle works well for various
real-life heroes, such as JFK and Gandhi, among
others).  There's also Lord Raglan's hero cycle, as
well as the hero/anti-hero approach taken by some
scholars.  (Bellerophon, for instance, is held to be
an anti-hero.) 

Star Wars is fine for what it is, but Lucas is
downright cynical about the way he treats the hero
cycle as an outline and plugs stock characters into
it.  Give me JKR any day.



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