Dark Knight Rises Monomyth Theory

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The Hero with a Masked Face According to The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a hero is someone who has given his life over to someone or something bigger than himself. Even in novels and films, a hero is someone who has found or done something beyond the normal range of achievement and experience. Dark Knight Rises is a spectacularly satisfying example that closely follows the steps of Joseph Campbell’s archetypal monomyth theory. The first phase of a hero’s journey is called the departure. For the hero to begin his or her journeys, he or she must be called away from the ordinary world as Campbell states, “This first stage of the mythological journey which we have designated the "call to adventure" signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown”(54). In Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne goes down his Bat Cave where he hasn’t step foot in for the last 8 years after an encounter with jewel…show more content…
Throughout the film, deceitfully dangerous terrorist Bane initiates the attack of The Stock Exchange which serves as Bruce’s call to adventure and drives him to the crossing of the first threshold as the police pursues him instead of Bane’s men, hoping to catch and hold him responsible for Harvey Dent’s death and he fails to stop the transfer of the money that is carried out using his fingerprints leaving him bankrupted. This in turn leads the protagonist to ventures into the dark criminal underworld. The hero of The Dark Knight Rises is not Batman; it is a flesh and blood human being who goes beyond himself, ventures from the normal flawed world, into a completely different world to save his city. It is clear that the movie has artfully portrayed the image of a modern superhero followed with Joseph Campbell heroic

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