Reference no: EM132239078 , Length: 2200 Words
Assignment - Essay
Description - Choose ONE of the quotations below. Write a 1500-2000 word essay that explores these ideas in reference to a mythology or legend, or fairytale, or fantasy story of your choice.
1) "The Heroine is the object of the Hero's Journey," Campbell replied, adding, "She doesn't go anywhere, she's what the Hero is journeying to." - Maureen Murdock, cited in A. K. Anderson, The Heroine's Journey.
2) "the Cauldron of Story, is that massive kettle that contains all of Story that has ever been told, especially Story that borders on myth and Faerie. (...) Certainly the soup contains some history. But it also contains legends, fairy tales, and myths. And once a bit of history has been thrown into that pot, it becomes bigger and more important by virtue of having been in the pot." - Matthew T. Dickerson & David O'Hara. "Beowulf to Arthur: Medieval Legend and Romance," in From Homer to Harry Potter. Page 112.
3) "Princess Mononoke refuses to sentimentalize the medieval history it highlights, preferring to problematize the past and, implicitly, the attitudes towards it." - Susan J. Napier. "Princess Mononoke: Fantasy, the Feminine, and the Myth of 'Progress,'" in Anime: From Akira to Howl's Moving Castle, 2001. Page 237.
4) Myths help us to deal with the 'attributes of the period of human origins: hostile nature, natural cataclysms, attacks by wild animals, human weakness in the absence of culture" Wiktor Stoczkowski, Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture.
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