The Role Of The Hero's Journey In Star Wars

One of the most watched movies, Star Wars: A New Hope and a children's book, The Rainbow Fish, both have something in common. They both have a hero follow the Hero’s Journey. Joseph Campbell wrote “Hero with a Thousand Faces”, which explains how heros in every story follow the concept of the Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey has the hero follow a Departure, Initiation, and Return. Whether the storyline has one of the most complex or the most simple stories, it will follow the Hero’s Journey. In Star Wars: A New Hope, by George Lucas, Luke Skywalker takes responsibility as the hero that follows Campbell’s Hero’s Journey with a departure, initiation, and return.

Luke Skywalker enters the departure, the first phase of Campbell’s hero’s journey.

On the way to the Death Star, Luke begins his road of trials by starting his Jedi training. This will cause him to face the temptation of the dark side, throughout the rest of his training. Finally, they reach the death star and enter the dragon battle, in which they fight stormtroopers and rescue Princess Leia. When Luke finds Leia in a prison cell, which has him meeting a goddess. She has qualities like a goddess, like her beauty and power. She is a princess, so she has a lot of power. During the escape Obi-wan is spotted fighting Darth Vader, the shadow. To the other characters, not much is known about Darth Vader. He has the mission of trying to capture Luke, the hero. Obi-wan knows that his time is up and he needs to step aside, letting Luke finish the quest on his own. He lets Vader kill him, but later on in the trilogy becomes a mentor again. This also happens to be when Luke and Vader see each other during atonement with the father. Vader knows that Luke is his son, but Luke does not know that Vader is his father. He finds out later in the trilogy. Luke has a moment of refusal of the return because he wants to stay and help Obi-wan. He finally decides to leave when Han Solo says, “Luke, come on!”. In Star Wars: A New Hope, Luke follows the departure, the first stage of the hero’s

In the climax of the movie, Luke attacks the Death Star, and Darth Vader ambushes him. Everything seems to be hopeless, and he thinks that he failed his mission, but Han Solo comes to the rescue. He chases Vader away as a part of the rescue from without. On the way back, they escape the explosion of the Death Star, which is the magic flight or pursuit. Also, the Millennium Falcon destroys the remaining pursuing TIE fighters during the crossing of the return threshold. Luke becomes the master of two worlds, during the victory ceremony. He conquered the new world by destroying the Death Star. This saved all of the other planets, including Tatooine, Luke’s old world. This gives Luke, and the rest who opposed the Empire, safety and freedom. This is literally the freedom to live. They do not have to face the fear of the Death Star and possibly dying in a second. Finally, when Luke becomes a Jedi during the apotheosis. Luke follows the return in Star Wars: A New