joseph campbell recall the hero’s quest pattern which includes: –departure (call to adventure,...
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Joseph Campbell
• Recall the hero’s quest pattern which includes:– Departure (call to
adventure, crossing threshold)
– Adventures, tests, trials– Fulfillment along the way– Return to home– Individual’s
consciousness is transformed
•This quest pattern is also known as a “monomyth” = one story
•Joseph Campbell expressed this idea in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Fetus: Dunny’s pre-battle life:
Section 1
Birth canal: the battle:Section 2
Newborn: Post battle
Sections 3-8
2. Pre-battle• Boredom (loss of personality): “I was a
lonely creature” (64)
• “my boredom was to blame… that comes of being cut off from everything that could make life sweet” (64)
Dunny’s Roles:
• Deacon (Holy Joe) because he read the New Testament
• People see only one side of Dunny (67)
• Charlie (68-69)
Two realities:
• The enemy: the Germans--they see only each other’s persona: “absolute devils” (65)
• “we were decency incarnate” (65)—even though Dunny recognizes his own soldiers as “a foul-mouted, thieving, whoring lot of toughs” (65)
Story:
• (67) New Testament and the Arabian Nights – both psychologically true which
is as important as literal truth
• Dunny says, “Later I was able to say that… psychological truth was really as important in its own way as historical verification” (68)
• What is psychological truth?
• In the battle he sees the Madonna with the face of Mrs. Dempster
• Another miracle?
• Psychological stress?
4. Post Battle• Dunny loses one mother: he can never
again be anyone’s “own dear laddie any longer” (78)
• He gains another “mother”: Diana (80,85)
• Another anima?
• Diana teaches him to walk, talk, renames him (90)
• St. Dunstan: solemn, good at resisting temptation and full of learning, faced the devil
• “St. Dunstan was a marvellous person and very much like you—mad about learning, terribly stiff and stern and scowly, and an absolute wizard at withstanding temptation” (90)
Two Realities:
• Who cured Dunny? (75-76)
• He hears the Madonna's voice
• Did he cure himself?
• Did Diana’s nursing cure him? Rest?
Roles• Dunny as hero• People need
heroes, and it might as well be Dunny
• He is an icon of heroism just as the king is an icon of kingship
Roles: Dunny as hero
• Celebration in Deptford: people see only one side of the Germans
• People need icons of heroism
• The staged “handing over of Leola”: Dunny plays the mythological role of Mars, the god of war – the winner in the field of battle, but the loser in the court of Venus (the goddess of love)