| The monomyth is, broadly speaking, a blueprint of sorts that can be used to explain and map heroes' journeys across world cultures. |
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| Joseph Campbell got the idea of the monomyth from James Joyce, and specifically from Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake. |
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| The monomyth has become a very important theme in philosophy and in the study of folklore, bringing together many cultures and many worlds. |
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| Modern myths follow a basic pattern, known as the monomyth or the hero's journey. |
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| For me, having one gigantic monomyth in place of distinct religious or secular systems sounds like chaos. |
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| Net positive has the potential to play naturally into a romantic plot, the sort illustrated by Joseph Campbell's monomyth of the hero's journey. |
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| The monomyth was a structure that myths all around the world followed. |
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| The Walking Dead, like the monomyth, is a metaphor for human nature and conviction of the spirit. |
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| The monomyth always begins with the hero in the normal world, but that world soon shifts to a mystical one. |
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| In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory. |
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| Max and his story went from a parochial revenge tragedy to the universal monomyth. |
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| For most heroes, the second cycle of the monomyth involves a physical journey into the underworld. |
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| One of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century, Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces is an elaborate articulation of the monomyth. |
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| In actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld is another step in the second cycle of the monomyth. |
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| Campbell's central argument, that all mythological tales spring from a single monomyth in which a hero defeats a series of challenges to attain a life-changing gift, is central to both video game and movie structure. |
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