How we cite our quotes: (Page.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Wherever he sets his hand there is a cry (if not from the housetops, then more miserably—within every heart): a cry for the redeeming hero, the carrier of the shining blade, whose blow, whose touch, whose existence, will liberate the land. (14.2)
Good doesn't tend to rise up until there's an evil to rise up against. Even in the early stage of the Hero's Journey, Campbell is showing us how both sides are connected.
Quote #2
Typical of the circumstances of the call are the dark forest, the great tree, the babbling spring, and the loathly, underestimated appearance of the carrier of the power of destiny. (47.2)
This is the central challenge of the Hero's Journey: if you want to save everybody, you gotta go out into the dark and scary parts of the world.
Quote #3
The disgusting and rejected frog or dragon of the fairy tale brings up the sun ball in its mouth; for the frog, the serpent, the rejected one, is the representative of that unconscious deep ("so deep that the bottom cannot be seen") wherein are hoarded all of the rejected, unadmitted, unrecognized, unknown, or undeveloped factors, laws, and elements of existence. (48.1)
This is important: evil here is really just an expression of the deepest parts of ourselves, the parts we don't like to think are there. By diving into them and understanding them, we know more about who we are and can move forward with a little wisdom.