Thursday, September 13, 2012

Does Equality Fit Into the Myth Cycle?

I think that Equality could be considered a hero, but he hasn't finished the myth cycle yet. His call into adventure, refusal of call?, is about him finding the tunnel from the Unmentionable TImes, and him continuing to go back into the tunnel and not report it to the council. His aid from a protective figure, often supernatural, is his mind which really nobody else in the society has. Then crossing the threshold into the unknown and entering the road of trials and difficult tasks, is about Equality having to use the different items he found in the tunnel and creating something. When he begins "initiation"- meeting a goddess-atonement with father, this is describing when Equality meets the Golden One and she is really a big inspiration for Equality creating the lightbulb, because she represents light like he has never seen before. Equality's low point is when he gets captured for being late, to his house, and is whipped. His blessing, receiving of a gift, magic flight or rescue, and sharing the gift with the world, are the few chapters when Equality escapes back to his tunnel to retrieve the lightbulb and sharing it at the meeting of the World Council. There he then relies the truth about his society and runs away to the forest. The reason I don't think that Equality has finished the hero cycle is because he isn't living in the world. He ran away from it and started his own society. I think that Equality will finish the cycle when he goes back into his old society and continues his adventure of helping the people that deserve to be helped. -Sarah Irvin

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