Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling | Analysis

nark Potter, J.K. Rowling AnalysisIn J.K. Rowlings annoy Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, the protagonist, harass, is todays modern supporter. It is noticeably apparent that annoy is a hero, utilize the guideline, the Heros Journey developed by Joseph Campbell in his novel, The Hero With a super C Faces. In Campbells book, he breaks down multiple heros tales, from mythological and modern propagation (from Odysseus to Luke Skywalker), into certain steps that each hero contains by meaning ofout their journey. I volition be following harasss tale, in semblance to Odysseus tale as told by Edith Hamilton in her text, Mythology, to show encrust as a hero, just as Campbell proved Odysseus. The story of chevvy Potter is the common story of honest vs. evil, with the good and evil in the story being blatantly obvious. Voldemort, kick ups adversary, int terminals to violent death Harry beca drop, as their prophecy, another element of mythology, foretold, neither nominate gi ve-up the ghost while the other survives. However, when good meets evil (Harry meets Voldemort) in the novel, good prevails both times which is a very clich concept.The need to find acceptance and a place where he belongs is a driving force for Harry. He has have to the realization that he is different, and that theres a possibility that there are wad worry him somewhere else in the homo. However, he doesnt know just merely that he really doesnt belong in the muggle world let wholly that there are even other worlds beyond his own. The world of wizardly, a world that is filled with mythological archetypes, creatures, and the oddest of people give finally be the place that Harry feels at home (because at once, it was his home). This essay depart asses the claim that the Harry Potter novels, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone in particular, have archetypes that are common to Greek Mythology, exclusively Odysseus tale, along with the use of other literary devices to prove tha t modern writings surely has not become obsolete over the years. It will do so first by following the use of the Heros Journey in both novels, and secondly by making a comparative analysis, based on these observations, in order to be able to give an answer to the research question.III. Harry Potter as a common mythological hero, in relation to OdysseusThe fictional subject, Harry Potter, from J. K. Rowlings novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, follows one of the common archetypes lay out in Mythology, The Heros Journey. This archetype was geted and sorted out by Joseph Campbell in his novel, The Hero With A Thousand Faces. The Journey consists of trine major part and seventeen sub-sections within the three major ones. The three major ones are, The Departure, The Initiation, and The hold.1In Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, Harrys journey starts with the major point, The Departure with his identify to endanger when he gets his letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Wizardry. He then refuses this call when he tells Hagrid, I think you must have made a mistake. I dont think I can be a wizard.2He receives supernatural aid from Hagrid, who is really just an extension of Dumbledore, the predetermined caretaker of Harry Potter when Harrys parents died. The death of Harrys parents actually becomes a symbol and extended metaphor. His mothers hit the hay becomes a form of protection for him, because she sacrificed her ego for Harry, out of have inter way of demeanor the same have a go at it that continues to protect Harry throughout the novel. Harry crosses the first threshold when he enters Diagon Alley for the first time.3Diagon Alley is considered the root of the wizardry world, this is where every wizard keeps their money, buys the necessities for wizarding, and where everything that is associated with wizards is fix. The Belly of the Whale stage is often seen as the initiation into the forward- sounding world.4Harrys initiation is when he first enters Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor, one of the four houses at Hogwarts.5In Harrys overall Journey, Harry learns the entire prophecy. This new knowledge transforms Harrys individuation so that he now sees himself as a marked piece of music he feels separate and apart from the rest of Hogwarts (or the rest of the world, for that matter), and most importantly, it makes him amply committed to the goal of defeating Voldemort. This is the most important step because it shows that the character is uns asked to down the stairsgo a metamorphosis, to die for the greater cause, so its expected that Harrys character will evolve in a significant, positive way because of this step.The coterminous major point, Initiation, starts with Harrys road of trials. However, Harrys trials arent in order with the steps of the heros journey, theyre closer to the end of the novel. Harrys trials are the enchantments that are guarding the Philosophers Stone. These consist of, Fluf fy, the three-headed dog6(another mythological archetype that will be discussed later in this essay), the Devils Snare, deathly vines that constrict like feather boa constrictors around its captors7, which is symbolic for the hardships that Harry has been and will be going through in the future. Others include enchanted keys intended to kill anything that attempts to disrupt their character of guarding a door, and finally a life-size Wizards Chess board in which Harry and his dickens friends were to become actual players in.8 there are three transformative events that are the possible culmination of the heros journey. These are Meeting with the Goddess, Atonement with the engender and Apotheosis. For Harry, who is raised in the absence of love, love is his life goal. The Goddess guides Harry and provides him the means for success in his trials. In a sense, all women comprise the Goddess they inherently represent Life and Death simultaneously. Some may clearly take on the shadow side of the Goddess as represented in the temptress model, while others may have both elements of light and shadow. Several women envisioned in this novel have specific attributes of the Goddess. These characterizations may focus on the romantic aspect, but there is too the motherly and sisterly locating of this motif that needs to be considered. While all women are goddesses the hero has but one Goddess to be found. She is his reflection, his complement, apparent opposite up to now interconnected with his soul.As mother, Lily Potter sacrificed her life to Voldemort for love of Harry.9He owes his existence to Lily not only for birth, but also for her ongoing protection from Voldemort. Harry was ill-starred with a scar the day his parents died and his life was spared, from the protection of his mothers love. The scar fire every time Voldemort is nearby because of the companionship the scar has to its creator. The scar could also be burning as a warning from his mother becau se her love is Harrys protection. As a sister, in spirit, Hermione poses as the goddess in each venture or trial. Hermione is the knowledgeable one out of Harry and his two friends, Hermione and Ron. Hermione guides Harry with her knowledge for example, she was the only of the three that knew how to ward off the constricting vines of Devils Snare.10Harry Potter is a boy with many fathers the biological father of course is James Potter the father of memory is Vernon Dursley the protector is Albus Dumbledore and the demon who created Harrys flock is Lord Voldemort. thither many are other men pestle in the father archetype within the series, as well. James is sensed as being exceptional at everything, much like his son, Harry. He gave his life fighting Voldemort and in protecting his wife and son under attack. James is Harrys ideal the perfect and unattainable father. Albus Dumbledore is Harrys protector, the keeper of the prophecy, the wielder of old magic based in love, the enc hanter of the Dursley home, the keeper of the Order, and the master of Harrys education. Dumbledore is the archetype of the Wise anile Man who seems to know what Harry is thinking even ahead Harry can formulate his thoughts. Dumbledore appears to have command of both space and time. He also demonstrates superior insight and a higher secern of consciousness. Dumbledore has a transcendent authority that is obeyed by both good and dark wizards, the last mentioned complying despite individual will and verbal commentary. Dumbledore unveils Harrys indicators gradually, emphasizing repeatedly that his superior power is love.To apotheosize is to deify. When someone dies a physical death, or dies to the self to live in spirit, he or she moves beyond the pairs of opposites to a state of divine knowledge, love, compassion and bliss. This is a god-like state the person is in nirvana and beyond all strife. A more mundane way of looking at this step is that it is a period of rest, peace an d fulfillment before the hero begins the return. Harry has been known by the magical world to be the savior of the world since he was an infant. That belief diminished greatly afterwards he was viewed to be a very real adolescent quite of the mere stuff of legends. Harry, however, knows nothing of the enlightened state in fact, Harry believes that actions of others were the basis for his survival rather than any power that he possessed. There are several possible events where Harry Potter can fulfil recognition of his true ability. The first may be identification as Dumbledores peer in wizardry where Harry becomes the greatest of all wizards. There is a substantial power that Harry must still discover for this to take place perhaps in how to wield that greatest power found in the Department of Mysteries love. Another possibility is an encounter with Voldemort to overcome, or at least balance, his dark nature. Voldemort has spent lifetimes contriving means to cheat death, yet never comprehending the value or meaning of life. Conversely, Dumbledore is the reigning Bodhisattva who has conquered death (in basis of being the greatest wizard), but chooses to stay in the world until it is saved. This commove appears to be taking its toll on him even as his protg Harry nears maturity.The ultimate boon is the achievement of the goal of the quest. It is what the person went on the journey to get. All the previous steps serve to prepare and sublimate the person for this step since in many myths the boon is something transcendent like the elixir of life itself, or a plant that supplies immortality, or the saintly grail. The ultimate boon found in Harry Potter, is when Harry enters the elbow room with the Mirror of Erised, a mirror that shows the viewer what they desire more than life itself. Once in this room, Harry is confronted with one of his professors, Professor Quirrell. However, as the events in the room progress, we discover that Lord Voldemort is usi ng Professor Quirrell as a source for life. Therefore, in a sense, Voldemort is a leech. The reason Harry entered the room in the first place was to retrieve the philosophers stone, a stone that provides the toter eternal life. Harry perceived that Professor Snape was the one after the stone, and was surprise to see Quirrell there. Harry quarreled with Voldemort/Quirrell for possession of the stone and reigned victorious.11The triumph over Voldemort is what makes the connection between Harry and his biological father, James. Just as his father did, he succeeds with whatever he sets his mind to. Which is a very clich concept, but a valid concept often found in works of literature that follow the heros journey.The final step in the Heros Journey is The Return. The first subsection of this step is the Heros refusal to return. This is seen when Harry realizes that he will have to return to the Muggle human beings, the world hes always despised even more now that hes finally found the world (home) where he belongs. The yearn to stay in the Wizardry World is what allows his hatred for the Muggle World to grow, which causes problems for him in the following novels. The refusal is followed by the Magical Flight, in which the hero has to get away with whatever object he has retrieved. In Harry Potter, he doesnt actually get away with his object. Instead, he receives an antediluvian cloak of invisibility that belonged to his father which symbolizes his powerful object. The succeeding section of the Return is the Rescue from Without. This is characterized in the novel after Harry has defeated Voldemort, and is in the infirmary when he awakes Dumbledore is standing in front of him. Dumbledore symbolizes the guide or rescuer for Harry in the situation because Harry was badly wound and was, in a sense, brought stand to life by Dumbledore.Next is the get across of the Return Threshold. In the novel, this is shown when Harry is boarding the Platform 9 train Hagrid tells Harry to remember that his family, the Dursleys know that he is a wizard, and that he can use that to his advantage. This leads the reader to believe that Hagrid is alluding to Harry using his wizarding skills as a threat to make his life at Privet Drive more favorable. Harry becomes the Master of the Two Worlds when he is able to see the balance of the two worlds how he will return to Hogwarts once summer is over and that he can use his magic in his favor against the Dursleys. Harrys Freedom to be intimate is derived from him surviving two separate confrontations with Voldemort leading him to lose his fear of death, which in turn, allows him to live life with freedom. Even though he yearns to be back at Hogwarts and away from the Muggle World, hes found the balance that allows him to live freely there. volume Count 2477