The Odyssey and Harry Potter

Heroes have been indite about in any forms, shapes, and sizes, for as long as people have had stories to tell. This semester, we explored guileless epics that highlighted the age-old question; what makes a hero? Although these tales that we have elicitvas can be date back thousands of years, the antidote for what makes a hero has not changed. In fact, the same structure of pure heroes can be appoint in modern heroes scripted into our pop-culture today. A spell by the name of Joseph Campbell studied these phenomena and authenticated his conclusions in his keep, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. In this book he highlights the idea that both heroes are built up of the same basic comp acents. For example, similarities can be found betwixt Odysseus, from The Odyssey by Homer, and J.K. Rollings Harry Potter. Not that do these two characters address the same brilliant minds, exactly they also happen to adopt Campbells outline of a Heros Journey.\nIt is easiest to mountain th e heros tour as a clock, with distri notwithstandingively significant point on the way universe a different hour. At one o clock, we have their initial c exclusively to adventure. In The Odyssey, Odysseus, who is being held captive by Calypso, misses his wife and son and wishes to return headquarters to his palace in Ithaca. So then, royal son of Laertes, Odysseus, man of exploits, still eager to farewell at once and belt along back to your own piazza, your making love native land? exhaustively luck to you, even so. adieu! But if you only knew, blue deep, what pains are destine to fill your cup onward you reach that shore, youd catch right here, preside in our house with me and be immortal. often as you long to apprehend your wife, the one you pine for all your days. (Book 5). His initial challenge is finding a way to not only escape her grasp, but also make it home safely. Next for the hero, they must cod assistance, usually from someone older, wiser, or just gen erally more than powerful. As we realize in Odysseus case, this ass...