I was fully prepared to not care about this movie as soon as I heard how the title was pronounced (Aragorn), and that it was the name of the hero, not the dragon. Now you've got me reconsidering for the sake of Jeremy Irons.
Maybe I've just taken too many literature courses to properly see anything. Is it just us who have this problem? Do psychology majors analyze their Denny's waitress? Do nurses diagnose strangers they meet in elevators? Because honestly, not a day goes by I don't deconstruct something, even if it's just the cartoon I watched while waiting for supper to heat up.
I took a lot of lit courses in my first two years of college, even though I ended up leaving as a poli sci major. And yeah-- I do that. I analyze and deconstruct crazy amounts of things. Christmas cards. Commercials. Art. Nearly every movie I watch, and most tv too. Sometimes I only pick out one or two elements to analyze, but I can't not analyze the media I am exposed to. On the plus side it's given me some of the vocabulary and exposure to the ideas that I can use to do with structure what I already tried to do all the time anyway. On the downside, it cuts down on my ability to take in a lot of mediocre tv. I "have, like, expectations" now. And about the same time as I was going through the end of high school and the beginnings of college was when I discovered online fandom in the larger, essay-writing, interactive discussion sense (it was Buffy fandom, actually), which gave me a place to practice all these new analysis skills I was learning in my English classes.
What specific essays do you recommend for this heroic journey stuff, and are they available online? I think I'm familiar with the idea, but I don't think I've ever read from the original source you mentioned: Campbell.
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Maybe I've just taken too many literature courses to properly see anything. Is it just us who have this problem? Do psychology majors analyze their Denny's waitress? Do nurses diagnose strangers they meet in elevators? Because honestly, not a day goes by I don't deconstruct something, even if it's just the cartoon I watched while waiting for supper to heat up.
I took a lot of lit courses in my first two years of college, even though I ended up leaving as a poli sci major. And yeah-- I do that. I analyze and deconstruct crazy amounts of things. Christmas cards. Commercials. Art. Nearly every movie I watch, and most tv too. Sometimes I only pick out one or two elements to analyze, but I can't not analyze the media I am exposed to. On the plus side it's given me some of the vocabulary and exposure to the ideas that I can use to do with structure what I already tried to do all the time anyway. On the downside, it cuts down on my ability to take in a lot of mediocre tv. I "have, like, expectations" now. And about the same time as I was going through the end of high school and the beginnings of college was when I discovered online fandom in the larger, essay-writing, interactive discussion sense (it was Buffy fandom, actually), which gave me a place to practice all these new analysis skills I was learning in my English classes.
What specific essays do you recommend for this heroic journey stuff, and are they available online? I think I'm familiar with the idea, but I don't think I've ever read from the original source you mentioned: Campbell.