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Title: Stars Wars


1
Stars Wars
  • Archetypal Traits of a Hero

2
  • Other Hero Archetypal Traits

3
Other Archetypes
  • White
  • Dark
  • White vs. Dark
  • Princess Leia, R2D2
  • Leias army
  • Color of lightsabers
  • Storm troopers once good
  • Darth Vader
  • Creatures that harm R2D2 in the beginning

4
Proves Himself on Quest
  • Quest for Princess Leia
  • Luke destroys the first Death Star, faces Darth
    Vader, trains with Yoda

5
Unusual Circumstance of Birth
  • Luke never knew who his parents were or where he
    was born

6
Leaves Family and lives with others
  • Lives with aunt and uncle
  • Leaves after their death and goes with Obiwan

7
Traumatic Event Leads to Quest
  • Death of aunt and uncle

8
Special Weapon
  • Lightsabor

9
Journey and Unhealable Wound
  • Luke reaches the lowest point in his journey when
    he faces Vader at Bespin, very much unprepared
    for the battle.  He loses his right hand and,
    after discovering Vader is his father, jumps to
    possible death rather than join him.  Here, Luke
    experiences both a physical and emotional wound.

10
Departure Five Steps
  1. The Call to Adventure
  2. Refusal of the Call
  3. Supernatural Aid
  4. The Crossing of the first Threshold
  5. The Belly of the Whale

11
The Call to Adventure
  • First given notice that things will change
  • Meets R2D2 and C-3P0
  • Princess Leia pleading with Obiwan from R2D2 that
    Luke Sees only hope
  • Instructions about erasing Obiwans memory from
    R2D2

12
Refusal of the Call
  • Harvest is coming when his uncle needs him most
  • long way away

13
Supernatural Help
  • Guide magically appears
  • Obiwan finds him after being attacked by the sand
    people

14
Crossing the Threshold
  • Crosses into the field of adventure
  • Princess Leias full plea seen
  • Gets introduction into the ways of the force
  • Lightsaber
  • Look at imperial troops ship- go home to save
    family from imperial troops

15
Belly of the Whale
  • Final separation from heros known world and self
  • Home is destroyed by imperial troops killing aunt
    and uncle
  • Agrees to go to Alderaan and become a Jedi like
    his father

16
Initiation (meets Chewy and Hans Solo)
  • 6. The Road of Trials
  • 7. The meeting with the Goddess
  • 8. Woman as Temptress
  • 9. Atonement with Father
  • 10.Apotheosis
  • 11. The Ultimate Boon

17
The Road of Trials
  • Series of tests undergo to cross over
  • space
  • Lightsaber exercises
  • Learning to control the force (defeated _at_ first,
    and then gives into the force and succeeds)

18
Meeting with Goddess
  • Meets Princess Leia to rescue her

19
Woman as Temptress
  • Women will lead hero astray (or any other
    temptation)
  • Argument between Han and Luke about Leia

20
Atonement with Father
  • Encounter with strong male power
  • Trying to blow up spaceship vs. Darth
  • Luke chooses the good side and atones for his
    father's sins (choosing the Dark Side).  His
    father atones for his own past by killing the
    Emperor to save Luke's life.

21
Spiritual Apotheosis
  • God-like state of hero or spiritual gain
  • At the end, we see Anakin, Yoda, and Obi-wan in
    spiritual form, implying that when Luke
    eventually dies, his spirit will live on.

22
Ultimate Boon
  • Achievement in/of the quest
  • Blew up Empire ship by trusting in the
    force-Darth Vader repelled
  • Receives metal

23
The Return
  • 12. Refusal of the Return
  • 13. The magic flight
  • 14. Rescue from without
  • 15. The crossing of the return threshold
  • 16. Master of the two worlds
  • 17. Freedom to live

24
Refusal of the Return
  • Questions why he has to come back

25
Magic Flight
  • Returning from journey-possibly dangerous

26
Rescue from Without
  • Special powers bringing him back to everyday life

27
Crossing the Return Threshold
  • Retain wisdom
  • Gained and integrate it into human life
  • Possibly sharing with others

28
Master of the Two Worlds
  • Achieving balance between two worlds

29
Freedom to Live
  • Freedom from fear of death
  • Neither anticipating future of regretting the
    past
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