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The way we shape our stories is fascinating but there is no reason to conclude that we are born with a certain pattern hard-wired into us. Children start out telling stories that have no structure and slowly learn how a story is expected to go.

Countless writers have tackled the idea of the Hero's Journey. My favourite is Vladimir Propp's (who based his ideas on Russian folk-tales and never claimed universality) Morphology of the Folk Tale (1928).
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I've been thinking a lot about the #ChosenOne #archetype, also known as the #Monomyth and the #HerosJourney.

My inspiration is a "#WitchPlease" #podcast episode:

https://www.ohwitchplease.ca/episodes/m2hjgxb9klzeafk

The hosts posit that this archetype is not universal in #storytelling. Instead, they say that is a specifically #white, #straight, #male #construct.

What do you think?

#Myth
#Literature
#CulturalAnthropology
#JosephCampbell
#Morphology
#Folklore
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#HarryPotter
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