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The monomyth (often referred to as the Hero's Journey) is a cyclical journey found in myths suggested by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) [1]. As a a noted scholar of James Joyce (in 1944 he authored the text,with Henry Morton Robinson, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake [2]), Campbell borrowed the term, monomyth from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. This pattern was adopted by George Lucas in both the original Star Wars trilogy and its prequels, as he was highly influenced by Campbell, particularly The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Hollywood screenwriter, Christopher Vogler, also used Campbell's theories in the creation of first a memo for Disney and later the book, The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers. This influenced Disney's The Lion King in 1994 and the Wachowski brothers' The Matrix in the 2000s.
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