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A 5 page paper discussing Moses as fitting into Campbell’s characterization of hero in “The Hero with a Thousand Faces.” Joseph Campbell holds that fact and fiction are two tools to use in furthering the same truth. Myth is not the product of idleness combined with a vivid imagination, but rather provides a route for a culture to reconcile itself to universal truths while offering example that others have experienced the same strong emotions and triumphed over them. Moses’ story fits Campbell’s pattern of departure, initiation and return. The MLA-style bibliography lists 5 sources.
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areas he never wanted to go. First ensuring that he survived to grow to a man, God placed Moses into an environment where he could learn all he needed
to about the slavery of the Hebrews and then gave him the tools he needed to free them from slavery (Holst 44). The events that led to Moses need
to flee appeared to Moses to be the end of his life as he had known it. Indeed it was, but not in any way that Moses could have
envisioned. God needed Moses to be removed from the life he had led in order to be able to return to make demands of Pharaoh with authority. Though
it must have appeared to Moses to be the end of his life, instead it was the most important part of it. Joseph
Campbell holds that fact and fiction are two tools to use in furthering the same truth. Myth is not the product of idleness combined with a vivid imagination, but
rather provides a route for a culture to reconcile itself to universal truths while offering example that others have experienced the same strong emotions and triumphed over them. Joseph Campbells
Philosophy "Hero" as used by Campbell (1990) is androgynous, and he underscores this fact by using the pronouns "he" and "she" appropriately to
the example topic, but interchangeably (Smith 1). The story of what Campbell (1990) calls the "hero journey" is the story of "someone who has found, achieved, or done something
outside of the ordinary patterns of experience" (Smith 1). The hero typically undergoes personal transformation along the way, moving out of "naivete and innocence to deep experience and enlightenment"
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