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Unbreakable Chains and Immoveable Beds: Marriage in Homer’s The Odyssey
The Odyssey is taught as an early example of epic poetry, recounting the courageous deeds of the hero, Odysseus, who has to find his way home after the Trojan War, but is distracted because he angered...
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The Genres of the Monomyth: Beloved, Moby-Dick and the American Epics of...
Just as there are different types of literature, there are also different approaches to understanding and interpreting them. One method is the Monomyth as outlined by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a...
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Prefabricated Mythologies: Dungeons & Dragons and Myth-Making
It would be very easy to say that role-playing games are popular because of the apparent lack of myth in the society. In fact, from initial observation this would be the case. People flock to...
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Towards a New Mythology
When the sun has set over Disneyland, Anaheim, California, and the lights are turned down, one can see the expectation for something about to happen on the face of every person looking at Sleeping...
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Re-Visioning the Mother and Father with the Help of Harry Potter
James and Lily Potter represent for their orphaned son, Harry, the ideal Father and Mother. They died in a surprise attack protecting Harry from Lord Voldemort when he was only one year old. Throughout...
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Commercial Mythology: Aesthetics, Pornography and Andy Warhol
The Pop Art movement that was made famous by Andy Warhol places common, everyday objects into a new perspective. Famous are Warhol’s large paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans and his repeated screen...
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The Great Debate: Myth Versus Fairy Tale in Joseph Campbell’s The Flight of...
When I was writing my Master’s thesis, I was asked to do the impossible: to define "myth." I had read enough of Joseph Campbell’s works to understand that "myth" in his use of the word is not...
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Persephone versus Anti-Persephone in MirrorMask
The film is the 2005 collaboration, MirrorMask, between fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean. The story follows Helena, a teenager and daughter of circus performers, who, after her mother...
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“The Dude Abides”: The Big Lebowski and America’s Path to Enlightenment
“Way out west there was this fella–Fella I wanna tell you about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. Least that was the handle that his lovin’ parents gave him. But he never had much use for it...
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Essay Update
For the last couple days, I’ve posted a lot of content. These have all been essays I wrote for Pacifica that belong in my Writing Portfolio. You can visit these essays by going to the Essay section of...
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