Eddie's Transformation In The Crucible

The Road Of Trials from Joseph Campbell’s monomyth “is a series of tests, tasks, or ordeals that the person must undergo to begin the transformation...The hero is also secretly aided by the advice, amulets, and secret agents of the supernatural helper.” The hero, Eddie, has to meet five people of whose lives were somewhat affected by Eddie’s action. Eddie has to undergo these trials and has to be able to come out of them with a new point of view of the past because the five people are basically explaining to him how and why certain things happened the way they did. One of the people Eddie had a hard time grasping a difficult truth was from his captain from the war. While in heaven, the captain reveals to Eddie the cause of his death whilst

The captain then says to Eddie “sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else” (Albom

Another lesson Eddie has to learn is from the fourth person he meets, his wife Marguerite. After reuniting with his wife after all these years without her Eddie can’t but feel in love. He also feels as if she had stopped loving him. This is what had led him to be so depressed and have a sense of betrayal after she had died. But Marguerite tells him that just because “life has to end. Love doesn’t” (Albom 173). It’s revealed that even though Marguerite had died early at a young age Eddie was still in love with her and she could still feel his love for her in heaven and because of this she was still able to love him back all through her time in heaven. In all these trials/people Eddie had to meet, he was able to accept difficult truths and understand the events that had happened. He also realized that the friendship he and his captain had was greater than he could imagine because he had risked his life to save Eddie’s and the two other soldiers’s. In understanding all of these truths it was what made him able to move