From the belly of the whale 🐳

      In Joseph Campbell’s 17-step monomyth narrative, the first step is the Call to Adventure. The call to adventure is when “The hero starts off in a mundane situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to head off into the unknown.” I think that this is one of the most important steps in the monomyth, as it sets up the context of the journey. We are able to learn what the hero hopes to accomplish, often by seeing what they lack in their “mundane situation of normality”. After watching Star Wars: Episode IV –A New Hope I thought it would be simple to identify the call to adventure in Siddhartha . In A New Hope the call to adventure is a literal call for help causing an adventure for the hero. However, in Siddhartha, the call to adventure was trickier to pinpoint.       In class we discussed what the call to adventure was in Siddhartha, there were two main opinions. The first being that the call to adventure ...