Out of the Blue [Nov 23, 2004, 09:34 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
I was already running a little behind this morning, and a little plumbing
problem set me even further back. According to our friendly neighborhood
plumber, the pipe to the radiator in our second-floor bathroom, which had
apparently been rusting for years, finally failed, causing a (thankfully minor)
flood in the basement. Turns out this is sort of good news that this finally
came to a head, as he says this was impeding the heat on the second floor as
well as my office above, so having the pipe repaired may well help us keep our
house warmer.
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I gotta say, the whole "guy finds out he has some great power, becomes too prideful and uses it for evil, then mends his ways" plot is not exactly original to Ursula K. LeGuin..
"His first, full-length, solo authorial endeavor, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series XVII: 1949), was published to acclaim and brought him the first of numerous awards and honors--the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Contributions to Creative Literature. In this study of the myth of the hero, Campbell posits the existence of a Monomyth (a word he borrowed from James Joyce), a universal pattern that is the essence of, and common to, heroic tales in every culture. While outlining the basic stages of this mythic cycle, he also explores common variations in the hero's journey, which, he argues, is an operative metaphor, not only for an individual, but for a culture as well. The Hero would prove to have a major influence on generations of creative artists--from the Abstract Expressionists in the 1950s to contemporary film-makers today--and would, in time, come to be acclaimed as a classic."
http://www.jcf.org/about_jc.php
More on the Monomyth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
These ideas are also used in computer games, of course.
Almost every heroic narrative of the 20th century probably owes a debt to Campbell's study of mythology.This comment was edited on Nov 23, 14:12.
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