Christopher Vogler : the Four Stages of a Hero’s Journey
Words: 592 1500Christopher Vogler's adaptation of Joseph Campbell’s archetype of the hero’s odyssey streamlines the mythical framework into a more comprehensible and controllable structure for authors and narrators. In his treatise, Vogler dissects the hero’s odyssey into four discrete phases: Departure, Initiation, Return, and Fusion. These phases encapsulate the metamorphic trajectory that heroes undergo in their escapades, furnishing a valuable scaffold for narrative evolution. The Departure heralds the onset of the hero's odyssey. Here, the hero encounters a beckoning to venture and […]