Most of the real-life heroes, handle common situations or challenges with uncommon strategies, they show courage in their way of thinking an acting (cf. There are people considered as heroes, who never intended to become one.
Fame is not a requirement to be recognized as a hero, neither is intention one. In real life “whether they are rulers, parents, deities, or teachers, heroes are described as courageous, selfless, and skillful” (Allison and Goethals 28). It is important to differ between real life heroes and fictional ones that might appear in literature or films. Most people are familiar with the idea of being a hero, but probably there are a lot of different definitions of what a hero is or what makes a person a hero. Lastly it will answer the question, if and to what extent Clary can be considered a hero. After deconstructing the stages, it will refer to and analyse Clary Fairchild’s journey in the City of Bones. The main part will focus on the twelve stages introduces by Vogler. Then it will focus on Vogler’s theory, which consists of twelve Stages, that can be organized in three acts, starting with giving an overview of the three acts. In order to do that the paper is first going to give a definition of the word hero and introduce the concepts that are significant for the analysis. The aim of this paper is to answer the question if the protagonist in City of Bones can be called a hero according to the concept of the Hero’s Journey.
This paper will only focus on Christoph Vogler’s version of the Hero’s Journey. Vogler’s book The Writer’s Journey describes his version of the Hero’s 1 Journey. Christoph Vogler presents a theory that is based on Campbell’s work. Joseph Campbell introduced in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the Hero’s Journey, which describes a classical plot structure that appears for example in a lot of books and films. This term paper will only deal with the first book of The Mortal Instruments, called City of Bones (2007). Shadowhunters exist to protect humans from demons and other evil forces that are beyond the mundane word. Clary Fairchild lives the life of an ordinary teenager, until she discovers that she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters warriors, who are humans with angelic blood. The Mortal Instruments is written by the American author Judith Rumelt, better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare. This term paper will focus on Clarissa Fairchild, also called Clary Fray.Ĭlary is a fictional character and the protagonist of the book series The Mortal Instruments (2007 – 2014). For most people heroes always seemed to be a part of their lives regardless of whether they were or are fictional heroes or real-life heroes. They are part of myths, of fairy tales, of historical studies and of course of fiction. “Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far it is we can go” (Bernard Malamud 154). 5 Analysing Vogler’s Twelve Stages in the City of Bonesĥ.5 Stage Five: Crossing the First Thresholdĥ.7 Stage Seven: Approach to the Inmost Caveĥ.12 Stage Twelve: Return with the Elixir
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