Honestly, having only really been taught the hero’s journey concept as a narrative structure… What else really is there that doesn’t wind up being mundane depictions of life in another world? How does one inject action that’d draw an eye or a mind into that?
For example, the popular young adult novel hunger games tells the story of the heroine’s journey as opposed to the hero’s journey.
There are great alternatives out there that aren’t explored as much as they’re supposed to because of these capitalist filters. Socialism being one of them.
Once there’s people out of my house I’m gonna go through this vid; but on its face, wouldn’t the heroine’s journey be no different from the hero’s journey save flipping the gender involved?
Oh, so you’re talking more what would end up being a decon of the hero’s journey, likely with a WHOLE lot of critique of the format it’s deconstructing along the way. Kinda sounds like it’d be something Joss Whedon-adjacent if Joss Whedon wasn’t a white guy
See I was taught that genres and narrative structures were two different things; so it sounds to me like you’re just naming a bunch of genres and not frameworks for that genre
Honestly, having only really been taught the hero’s journey concept as a narrative structure… What else really is there that doesn’t wind up being mundane depictions of life in another world? How does one inject action that’d draw an eye or a mind into that?
For example, the popular young adult novel hunger games tells the story of the heroine’s journey as opposed to the hero’s journey.
There are great alternatives out there that aren’t explored as much as they’re supposed to because of these capitalist filters. Socialism being one of them.
Edit: recommended watching:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zR4lWyVN8
Once there’s people out of my house I’m gonna go through this vid; but on its face, wouldn’t the heroine’s journey be no different from the hero’s journey save flipping the gender involved?
No, it means following the hero on his journey, becoming the hero’s prize, then being discontent with her position and setting out on her own journey.
Paraphrasing.
Oh, so you’re talking more what would end up being a decon of the hero’s journey, likely with a WHOLE lot of critique of the format it’s deconstructing along the way. Kinda sounds like it’d be something Joss Whedon-adjacent if Joss Whedon wasn’t a white guy
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Stuff like Shakespeare tragedies and rom coms are other narrative structures. Mystery and crime fiction is another one.
See I was taught that genres and narrative structures were two different things; so it sounds to me like you’re just naming a bunch of genres and not frameworks for that genre
But I think the narrative structures common in those genres are different from the hero’s journey. And they aren’t mundane.