The most tried-and-true plot for the majority of uplifting stories is called the Hero's Journey. It reflects the universal and fundamental experience of overcoming trials and realizing your fortitude.

The Hero's Journey was proposed by mythologist Joseph Campbell in 1949, and Campbell explained that 'hero myths are stories of the 'growth of the soul' that humanity universally desires, so they ...

The Hero’s Journey will thus conclude as the Hero’s Journey must. And then another journey, that of reviving the America we love, can then begin. Subscribe to The American Spectator.

Movies with Hero's Journey archetypes are fun enough as they are, but mix those elements with a superhero origin story, and you get one of the best entries in the superhero genre.

The quest for the monomyth rakes in an unlikely candidate in Confucius, China’s great sage and moral teacher. However, his brief biography turns out to parallel the call to the collective hero’s ...