Hero's Journey (Monomyth): Seizing the Sword; An Expansion of Consciousness and Explicit Recognition
Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.
There is only one story.
The Hero's Journey:
a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.
b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.
c) Gives you a tangible process for building and releasing dissonance (establishing and achieving catharsis).
d) Gives you a universal structural template upon which you can superimpose your situational story.
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SEIZING THE SWORD - AN EXPANSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS and EXPLICIT RECOGNITION
What is often misunderstood is that the Seizing of the Sword stage of the Hero's Journey / Transformation is actually an expansion of consciousness. It is the Seizing of the Sword that indicates to the Hero that s/he is gaining the capacity that was previously lacking. The Journey is all about that - to gain the capacity [to conquer challenges] that was previously lacking. Further allies begin to believe that the Hero is "The One."
In The Matrix (1999), it is after Neo rescues Morpheus that he and the others finally begin to believe that he is the One.
Which brings us to another often missed phase of the Hero's Journey - the EXPLICIT RECOGNITION. Where is is explicitly stated that there is more to this Hero than previously met the eye.
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