Breanna Welch

LBST 2102
March 20, 2018
Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero’s Journey Chart

Movie: Wonder Woman (2017)

Separation
Call to Adventure: How There are two instances, that one could say Diana
does the character received the call to adventure. First, when she
receive the call to dived off the cliff into the ocean to save Steve
adventure? when he crashed. Second, when the Amazons
lassoed Steve and Diana found out about the war,
and how bad it was.
Refusal of the Call: Diana does accept the call immediately in both
Does the character instances. First, she dives into the ocean the
accept the call moment she sees Steve crash land. Second, she
immediately? wants to take immediate action when she hears
about the war.
Answering the Call: Diana feels as though it is her duty to protect
What motivates the humankind and it is what she has been training
character to accept the for her entire life on Themyscira. When the other
call? Amazons don’t want to take action, she is
confused and disappointed.
Supernatural Aid
Guide/Mentor: Is there There are two guides/mentors for Diana. Antiope
a specific character who is Queen Hippolyta’s sister. She trains Diana
helps the hero throughout her life to become a warrior, even
understand the life before Hippolyta approved of it. Steve guided
situation or provides the Diana through the unfamiliar world and new
hero with special reality that she experienced. He stayed with her
training? until the end and only left when he knew that she
was ready to save the world, while he was ready
to save the day.
Talisman: Is there a There are a few talismans with special
particular item that has significance to Diana. They include, the Lasso of
special significance to Truth, her head band, and her wrist armor. These
the hero? are things that she always had with her no matter
where she was. The Lasso of Truth was used on
Steve at the beginning of the movie, throughout
her battles, and in the final battle with Ares, when
he was in her head. The head band that she
wears, was Antiope’s. Diana first puts on the
headband before she goes into her first battle,
and it is worn throughout her remaining battles

Companions: Who is
with the hero on his
journey? How do these
companions help the
hero face the
challenges?
Crossing the
Threshold: At what
point in the story does
the hero leave the
familiar world and move
into a new, unfamiliar
circumstance?
Threshold Guardians:
Are there characters that
try to prevent the hero
from crossing over into
the unfamiliar territory or
circumstance?
Initiation / Road of
Trials: What specific
challenges does the
hero face?
Brother Battle: Does
the hero battle physically
or mentally with
and as a constant part of her armor. Her wrist
armor protected her throughout the movie from
bullets, and in the end all her armor connected in
full power to destroy Ares.
Diana is with Steve at the beginning and
throughout the rest of her journey. There are also
three other men that join them going into war.
They are Steve’s “team” and they continue to
stick by Diana, even after Steve sacrificed himself.
Diana crosses the threshold in a literal and
figurative sense when she leaves the island of
Themyscira to fight the war with Steve Taylor.
Literally, there is a sort of shield around the island
that Diana and Steve cross through, into the “real
world”. Figuratively, this is when Diana leaves
what she has known all her life and enters a
completely different and unfamiliar reality.
Diana’s mother and Queen of the Amazons
Hippolyta, catches Diana leaving Themyscira and
tells her that although she would not like her to
stay on the island, she knows that Diana will not
listen to her and leave anyway.
Diana has no idea what to expect when leaving
Themyscira. The world that she enters is nothing
like the one that she has known her entire life.
This was a small challenge for her, but it did not
remain a challenge for long. When Diana first
thought she killed Ares, and the war did not stop,
she felt defeated and hopeless. This was a
challenge and disappointment to her, because all
her life she believed that killing Ares would make
the world better, but it didn’t seem to work. One of
the obvious challenges was defeating Ares. He
was the God of War, so he was very powerful, and
it took Diana a moment to realize her full strength
and defeat him. Lastly, a personal challenge for
Diana was falling in love for the first time and
losing them for the first time. Although, it helped
her realize her full strength and the love that
humankind possesses, it was heartbreaking for
her.
At the beginning, Diana and her mother disagree
on her training. Diana wants to start training and
her mother forbids her to, which leads to Diana
someone who is a training with Antiope behind her mother’s back.
relative or close friend? Also, Diana and Ares are both Gods, and at the
end of the final battle with Ares, she says to him,
“goodbye brother”.
Meeting with the Throughout Diana’s life on the island she was
Goddess: Does the surrounded by the mighty Amazons. They were
hero meet with a warriors and of great beauty, so I would say she
character with special had lived with “Goddesses” her life up to leaving
beauty and power? the island. However, as the movie nears the end,
we would learn just as she would, that all along,
she was the Goddess.
Abduction: Is the Diana is never kidnapped, and no one close to her
character kidnapped, or is kidnapped. There is no point in the movie
is someone close to the where there is anything similar to a kidnapping
hero kidnapped? either.
Night or Sea Journey: Diana and Steve leave the island at night by
Where do the hero’s sailboat and travel to London. Next, they travel to
travels take him? Belgium, also by boat to fight in the war.
Throughout the rest of the movie, they travel by
foot and car to find and fight the God of War, Ares,
and end the war.
Dragon Battle: Does Diana fights the final battle against the God of
the hero battle some War, Ares. Ares tries to get into Diana’s head and
kind of monster? Does make her believe that the humans are all bad and
the hero have to face if they work together they can destroy them all
some inner demon? and restore the world to peace. He shows her
through a vision with the Lasso of Truth, the
world restored from war. Diana struggles in belief
for a moment and seems to be sort of mesmerized
by the beauty he has shown her. However, she
breaks out of his spell and tells him that he is
wrong, and she continues to fight him.
Ritual Death or Diana is never injured or thought to be dead
Dismemberment: Is the throughout the movie. At the beginning of the
hero injured and thought movie when the Germans discover Themyscira
to be dead? Does the and fight the Amazons, Diana seems to have hurt
hero mistakenly believe her arm, but when one of the Amazons look at it, it
someone close to him is has completely healed. This lead me to believe
dead? Does the hero that Diana could not get hurt.
suffer an injury in which
he loses a limb or use of
some other body part?
Sacred Marriage: Does Diana and Steve fall in love. They share a special
the hero have a special moment together in the movie, and at the end
emotional bond (it could before he leaves, Steve tells Diana that he loves
literally be a marriage) her.
with another character?
Atonement (“at one Diana doesn’t necessarily have a father. She was
with”) with or sculpted by her mother Queen Hippolyta and
Recognition by the brought to life by the God, Zeus. She always knew
Father: Is the hero this about herself, but never needed a father. The
reunited with his father Amazons are only women and to them the only
in some way? use for a man is to procreate.
Entering the Belly of As the dragon battle, Diana faces the God of War,
the Whale: Is there Ares. Diana is not necessarily afraid of Ares, but
some point in the story he is the darkest evil in the story. At the end of the
where the hero must fight, when Diana kills Ares, the sky goes from
face his deepest fear or devastation and darkness to light and beautiful,
the darkest evil in the symbolizing the end of the war.
story?
Apotheosis Diana’s first real fight in the movie, was in a
(Deification): Is there a village against the Germans. She defeated them
point in the story where and saved the village people. After her fight, they
the hero is held up as an all were shaking her hand, thanking her, and
ideal or where the hero trying to offer her things. Also, the village
is worshipped as a god? photographer, had her, Steve, and the three other
men take a picture, which is the picture that was
given to Diana at the very beginning of the movie
from Wayne Enterprises. They did not call her a
God, but to them she was their savior.
Ultimate Boon / Magic Throughout the movie, Diana believes that the
Elixir: Does the hero sword she took from Themyscira was the “God
find some special Killer”. However, she realizes in her battle against
solution to the problem Ares, that she is the “God Killer”, not the sword.
he is attempting to She realizes her strength in the end, and defeats
resolve? This might be a Ares. So, basically, she was the key all along.
magic potion or a key to
something.
The Return
Refusal of the Return: Diana does not return to Themyscira. I would not
Does the hero initially say that she refused to go back. As Diana was
refuse to return to the leaving the island her mother states that she may
homeland or the place not return once she leaves. Also, Diana stays to
that he began the continue to fight and protect humankind.
journey?
Magic Flight / Pursuit: Diana is not necessarily running or trying to
Is there some point escape anything. She leaves Themyscira to find
(generally toward the and defeat Ares. However, one could say that in
end) where the hero is the beginning, Diana is “escaping” from the
being chased or is island to fulfill her destiny as a warrior.
otherwise trying to
escape something?
Rescue from Without: There are a few instances towards the end of the
Is there some point in movie where Diana seems to feel hopeless. First,
the movie, when all after she kills the German general, the war does
seems hopeless, when it not stop. She doesn’t understand why it did not
looks like the hero is and starts to think it was all for nothing. Second,
going to die, then when Diana was battling Ares, he had her pinned
suddenly he is rescued by metal to the ground and she could not seem to
unexpectedly? build up the strength to break free. She looked
defeated and disappointed. Third, also during the
final battle, Ares got into Diana’s head, and almost
had her kill Dr. Poison, but Diana snapped out of it
and continued to fight Ares.
Crossing the Return Diana never returns home in the literal sense. In
Threshold: Is there the end, she seems to be happy where she is, in
some point where the London. It is the place that she found a whole new
hero clearly returns reality and found love, so it can be thought of as
“home”? her new “home”.
Master of Two Worlds: I would say that Diana conquered life in the
Does it appear that the unfamiliar world in a couple of ways. She saved
hero has conquered life the world and it became familiar to her. Regarding
in both the familiar and her familiar world, Themyscira, she did not
unfamiliar worlds? conquer life because she left and could not
return. She also conquered her Themyscira, by
doing what she was born and trained to do, killing
Ares.
Freedom to Live: Since The obvious problem is resolved when Diana kills
the hero typically begins Ares, ending the war, and freeing humankind.
the journey to resolve a However, I believe that Diana also needed to solve
problem, does it appear the “problem”, by answering two questions: Who
the problem is at last is she? What is she meant to do? In the end, she
resolved so that all can realizes that she is a Goddess and she is meant to
live freely? protect humankind.