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In storytelling, the heroine's journey is a female-centric version of the hero's journey template developed and inspired by various authors [who?] who felt that the Hero's Journey did not fully encompass the journey that a female protagonist goes through in a story.
- We Need New Myths
- A Female Perspective
- Maureen Murdock’s The Heroine’S Journey
- The Heroine’S Journey
- Kim Hudson’s The Virgin’s Promise
- Shared Elements of Male and Female Archetypal Journeys
- Contrasts with The Hero’S Journey
- Putting It to Work
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- A Call to Action
Myths are archetypal stories that reflect our inner selves. They reveal our foibles and laud our innate strengths so that we can better understand our shared humanity. But society has changed a lot since Theseus slew the minotaur. Campbell was right about our changing world. We face challenges our ancestors never even dreamed of. 1. Technology revo...
Female action heroes like Wonder Woman’s Diana Prince and Divergent’sTris rake in big bucks for Hollywood, showing that a woman can carry an action film and attract huge audiences. These movies stick to the basic shape of the Hero’s Journey, just replacing the male protagonist with a woman. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s the same old ...
Maureen Murdock wrote The Heroine’s Journey as counterpoint to Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. When she asked Campbell about women and the Hero’s Journey, he famously responded: “Women don’t need to make the journey. In the whole mythological tradition, the woman is [already] there. All she has to do is to realize that she’s the place...
1. Separation from the Feminine
Women leave the nurturing shelter of the archetypal Mother behind. Some strike out in search of success and and a sense of self. Others flee from the negative associations of feminine behavior, wanting to be taken seriously and not unrealistically sexualized.
2. Identification with the Masculine
To flourish in a male-oriented world, successful women often emulate male behavior by abandoning the domestic sphere, suppressing emotional displays, and adopting male traits in the boardroom or on the campaign trail. Merida rejects traditional women’s activities such as needlework. She excels in archery, defeating all her potential suitors in a competition. Zuko is separated from the nurturing love of his mother as a child and thrust into his father’s world of domination through conquest.
3. The Road of Trials
The heroine confronts challenges and obstacles to her goals. She survives trials, earns degrees, or learns difficult skills. She must balance her personal and professional lives. She must prove herself to those who think she’s not worthy to succeed by male standards. Zuko chases the Avatar to restore his honor.
Author Kim Hudson describes the Heroine’s and Hero’s Journeys as “two halves of a whole.” Although The Virgin’s Promiseportrays a feminine take on the search for one’s authentic self, it avoids limiting the gender of the protagonist. Viola in Shakespeare in Loveexemplifies the journey with a female lead and Billy in the movie Billy Elliot, is a mal...
The Heroine’s Journey and The Virgin’s Promiseshow us what stories are like when women achieve their full potential. The Heroine’s Journey (HJ), The Virgin’s Promise (VP), and the monomyth (MM) share some elements, demonstrating that at least some components of heroic stories are universal: 1. The protagonist rejects or suppresses part of themselve...
The male and female journeys of self-actualization follow different paths but arrive at a similar destination. Both trace a voyage of self-discovery, of confronting and breaking down self-deception and learning to integrate aspects of personality in positive, productive ways. Heroine’s journeys are about self-worth and identity. The heroine brings ...
If you read my post on archetypes, you know I believe that writers have the ability and responsibility to bring joy, hope and change to the world. Myths and archetypes are powerful tools for accomplishing that. While reading about alternatives to the Hero’s Journey, I began to see that the Heroine’s Journey and Virgin’s Promise are more than just f...
Balancing internal and external genres within a plot is one of the hallmarks of a compelling story. Both Heroine’s Journey models enable us as writers to delve into the psyche of a character in a different way. They inspire new responses to the challenges of change and growth and the consequences of failing to change. How might your current work-in...
Old myths are no longer as relevant in our complex 21stcentury world as they once were, but we’ve not yet replaced them with something as strong and inspiring—and we need to. Campbell says that the most important purpose of myth is to guide humans through the stages of life, from cradle to grave. Robert McKee, an authority on writing powerful stori...
Dec 1, 2019 · Murdock’s model, described in The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness, is divided into the ten stages: HEROINE SEPARATES FROM THE FEMININE. The “feminine” is often a mother/mentor figure or a societally prescribed feminine/marginalized/outsider role. IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MASCULINE & GATHERING OF ALLIES.
The Heroine’s Journey begins with an Initial Separation from feminine values, seeking recognition and success in a patriarchal culture, experiencing spiritual death, and turning inward to reclaim the power and spirit of the sacred feminine.
Jan 3, 2024 · Definition. The heroine’s journey, as a narrative archetype in film and literature, diverges from the traditional hero’s journey by placing emphasis on relational dynamics, internal growth, and communal connections.
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Sep 26, 2014 · Most of all, the Heroine’s Journey is about a heroine who must find balance as she struggles between the sides of a duality. Finding Your Duality. First, identify the duality that lives within your heroine. It might be obvious. If you have a half elf, half human caught between those races, that’s clearly your duality.
Nov 3, 2021 · In Pearson’s framework, the Heroine’s Journey is the shift from one level of archetypes to the next. It is the moment the individual puts down his sword and realizes that there is no need to fight in the first place to achieve his goal.
