Blog Prompt Week 4
Star Wars: The Trilogy
Being a hero are the fantasies of
many people in which you want to become that one person with powers beyond
imagine helping the people in need and or the damsel in distress. But other
people just want to do the right thing these ideologies are described by Joseph
Campbell in, The Civic Hero and the
Contemplative Hero where he describes that there could be more than one
hero fighting for the same cause. The only difference and what we can see in
the Star Wars: The Trilogy are the
phases or steps to become not only that hero but also the ending of the journey
will be different for each hero. Han Solo is clearly the civic hero; the change
that proved that Solo could become a hero in the community was when his
self-serving desires became the needs of the community and the protection of
them. Han Solo as well will be part of the community after the fight against
evil is finished considering he has no higher vision to keep fighting for
therefore could just savor the victory with the community and continue with their
daily lives. For the contemplative hero there is a higher purpose and a
spiritual journey. After the victory against evil the hero wouldn’t take credit
for the victory and the contemplative hero will often seek to destroy the
source of the evil rather than the soldiers and numerous followers of the
darkside. In Star Wars we believe that
Luke will become a hermit as Ben Kenobi conserving the force for when the time
to teach others the way of the force he would do the necessary even sacrificing
for the higher purpose as Kenobi did. Joseph Campbell says that there is a
cycle, which the hero takes which is the departure, initiation and return.
The call of adventure both
happens for Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, which they both rejected and then at
some point accepted even though it took three movies for Solo to accept his
call as a civic hero. Departure we could say as well it occurs for both
characters considering we don’t know where Solo is from he travels a lot and we
guess he departed and let everything behind him, even leaving his life of
smuggler to help Luke. Luke in the other hand departs from his home and family.
In departure Luke does have a spiritual
guide which teaches him the way of the force, where as Solo lived a life of
solitude therefore not having a spiritual guide though having a friend when he
is need Chewbacca. The crossing of the threshold where both Luke and Solo
partake is the final step to departure. Initiation is something that both Solo
and Luke go through though in different times but eventually accept and face.
In the phase of initiation they have a lot of obstacles, which they have to
fight against such as the darkside and its temptations and Solo refusing to
fight with the rebellion. Finally the Return which we don’t really see in the
trilogy though we do see how the victory have an effect on all the planet
systems, the victory even showed how a native planet with the ewoks could now
live in peace and have a fertile life and a fertile planet. The final scene we
see the higher purpose of Luke being achieved though he doesn’t fit in the
community not because he doesn’t want to but because his powers and knowledge isn’t
necessary at the moment so he will become a hermit, for Solo everything turned
out perfect where he got the girl, the respect of the community and their
acceptance where they can live in peace till evil appears again.
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