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Join us for part eight of the Hero's Journey: Women's Roles. You know, like Lady Macbeth, Liz Lemon, Katniss Everdeen, Hermione Gra––oh. That's not what we're talking about? Well...guess we'll hit play and find out what this video is actually about. We're pretty sure it won't be as enjoyable without Liz Lemon, but what do we know?

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Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey women's roles

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I'll ashman What role do women's play during the hero's

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initiation Faith there's two stages in this phase that campbell

00:19

articulates us having to do with women So one is

00:22

meeting with the goddess and another is temptation by a

00:26

seductress The meeting with the goddess is a kind of

00:29

the character meets someone who really makes him feel loved

00:33

and valued Sometimes these aren't so distinct though so the

00:37

temptress is a woman that sort of can throw him

00:40

off his path because you know she doesn't want him

00:42

to do his work She wants him to pay attention

00:45

to her right Women are so terrible I'm thinking of

00:48

friday night lights in the first episode there's this quarterback

00:52

and he gets really injured and his girlfriend you know

00:56

was so devoted to him for their whole relationship and

00:58

she always had this idea in their little texas town

01:02

that you know her Her boyfriend success was going to

01:05

get her out of there She's kind of the seductress

01:07

and the loving mother because she tries to help him

01:10

but he finds it really smothering He feels like her

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attachment to the way things used to be it's kind

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of preventing Him from coming to terms with his new

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reality as someone with a serious disability and sew her

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love it it's not a kind of net positive It

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actually prevents him from his personal growth and personal journey

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You know one of the things that campbell has really

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been criticised for is that women in his story always

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show up us obstacles Right So even idea of a

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mother's love in his story occurs as a kind of

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obstacle because it sort of lulls the hero into complacency

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and makes him not want to go out and sort

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of vanquish the various foes that are in his path

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What role do women's play during the hero's initiation Faith

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