Stars Wars

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Stars Wars

• Archetypal Traits of a Hero

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• Other Hero Archetypal Traits

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Other Archetypes

• White

• Dark

• White vs. Dark
• Princess Leia, R2D2
• Leias army
• Color of lightsabers
• Storm troopers once good

• Darth Vader
• Creatures that harm R2D2 in the beginning

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Proves Himself on Quest

• Quest for Princess Leia
• Luke destroys the first Death Star, faces Darth
  Vader, trains with Yoda

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Unusual Circumstance of Birth

• Luke never knew who his parents were or where he
  was born

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Leaves Family and lives with others

• Lives with aunt and uncle
• Leaves after their death and goes with Obiwan

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Traumatic Event Leads to Quest

• Death of aunt and uncle

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Special Weapon

• Lightsabor

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Journey and Unhealable Wound

• Luke reaches the lowest point in his journey when
  he faces Vader at Bespin, very much unprepared
  for the battle.  He loses his right hand and,
  after discovering Vader is his father, jumps to
  possible death rather than join him.  Here, Luke
  experiences both a physical and emotional wound.

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Departure Five Steps

1. The Call to Adventure
2. Refusal of the Call
3. Supernatural Aid
4. The Crossing of the first Threshold
5. The Belly of the Whale

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The Call to Adventure

• First given notice that things will change
• Meets R2D2 and C-3P0
• Princess Leia pleading with Obiwan from R2D2 that
  Luke Sees only hope
• Instructions about erasing Obiwans memory from
  R2D2

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Refusal of the Call

• Harvest is coming when his uncle needs him most
• long way away

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Supernatural Help

• Guide magically appears
• Obiwan finds him after being attacked by the sand
  people

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Crossing the Threshold

• Crosses into the field of adventure
• Princess Leias full plea seen
• Gets introduction into the ways of the force
• Lightsaber
• Look at imperial troops ship- go home to save
  family from imperial troops

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Belly of the Whale

• Final separation from heros known world and self
• Home is destroyed by imperial troops killing aunt
  and uncle
• Agrees to go to Alderaan and become a Jedi like
  his father

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Initiation (meets Chewy and Hans Solo)

• 6. The Road of Trials
• 7. The meeting with the Goddess
• 8. Woman as Temptress
• 9. Atonement with Father
• 10.Apotheosis
• 11. The Ultimate Boon

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The Road of Trials

• Series of tests undergo to cross over
• space
• Lightsaber exercises
• Learning to control the force (defeated _at_ first,
  and then gives into the force and succeeds)

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Meeting with Goddess

• Meets Princess Leia to rescue her

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Woman as Temptress

• Women will lead hero astray (or any other
  temptation)
• Argument between Han and Luke about Leia

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Atonement with Father

• Encounter with strong male power
• Trying to blow up spaceship vs. Darth
• Luke chooses the good side and atones for his
  father's sins (choosing the Dark Side).  His
  father atones for his own past by killing the
  Emperor to save Luke's life.

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Spiritual Apotheosis

• God-like state of hero or spiritual gain
• At the end, we see Anakin, Yoda, and Obi-wan in
  spiritual form, implying that when Luke
  eventually dies, his spirit will live on.

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Ultimate Boon

• Achievement in/of the quest
• Blew up Empire ship by trusting in the
  force-Darth Vader repelled
• Receives metal

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The Return

• 12. Refusal of the Return
• 13. The magic flight
• 14. Rescue from without
• 15. The crossing of the return threshold
• 16. Master of the two worlds
• 17. Freedom to live

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Refusal of the Return

• Questions why he has to come back

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Magic Flight

• Returning from journey-possibly dangerous

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Rescue from Without

• Special powers bringing him back to everyday life

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Crossing the Return Threshold

• Retain wisdom
• Gained and integrate it into human life
• Possibly sharing with others

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Master of the Two Worlds

• Achieving balance between two worlds

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Freedom to Live

• Freedom from fear of death
• Neither anticipating future of regretting the
  past