Joseph
Campbell with Bill Moyer:
The Hero's Adventure
(On
side B of your listening tape, after the Steve Chandler passage)
Vocabulary:
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hero
typical sequence of actions to detect period history essentially deed mythology worth V-ing about popular novel heroine beyond range properly to give one's life costume to perform war act heroism to sacrifice oneself to spiritual mode supernormal to communicate cycle initiation ritual |
childhood
infantile personality psyche self-responsible fundamental to undergo posture dependency psychological resurrection motif journey condition source to bring forth richer mature grand sense to redeem tremendous transformation water creature realm amniotic fluid air-breathing mammal ultimately self-standing |
enormous
on the mother's part primary hero-form consciously to undertake one one's own initiative Celtic myth to lure deer forest landscape queen fairy hills to find oneself in full career of to set out intentionally Ulysses Telemachus Athene guest adventure source to be thrown pitched in to be drafted into the army uniform |
Listening comprehension questions:
1. Why are there so many heroes in stories around the world?
2. What is Campbell's definition of a hero?
3. Describe what a 'spiritual hero' does.
4. What is the significance of an initiation ritual?
5. One writer considers everyone 'a hero in his birth'. What is the reasoning
behind this view?
6. What does Campbell think the myth of a son going out to find his father
represents?
7. According to Campbell, what kind of adventure is being drafted into the
army?