Category: Journey Circles

Variations of the classic hero’s journey circular graphic, applied to popular movies. Also other graphic representations of movies and classics, including graphic novels, SlideShare, and storyboards.

Star Wars
From: http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/there-are-no-rules/craft-technique/star-wars-and-the-heros-journey

Moana, handwritten, idea map
From: https://twitter.com/sylviaduckworth/status/864326333077303296

Moana
From: Disney slideshare – https://www.slideshare.net/LizabethFogel/moana-educators-guide
Pages 12 to 18 have Educator’s Guide to the hero’s journey as it relates to Moana and also guide to writing your own hero stories.

Cinderella
From: http://english2rusharts.weebly.com/unit-4-archetypal-criticism-and-the-heros-journey.html

Graphic Novels
From: https://lincoln.debbieyoon.com/joseph-campbell-and-the-heros-journey/
From: https://thesleeperstome.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/outlining-with-the-heros-journey/
From: http://thelaymansanswerstoeverything.com/2014/06/the-long-lost-instruction-book-to-the-game-of-life/

Hero’s Journey depicted as storyboards, from StoryBoard That
To Kill A Mockingbird
From: http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/rebeccaray/hero%27s-journey—to-kill-a-mockingbird

Greek Mythology – Perseus
From: http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/rebeccaray/hero%27s-journey-perseus

Odyssey
From: http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/rebeccaray/the-heroic-journey–odyssey-

Divergent
From: http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/bridget-baudinet/divergent-hero-s-journey

Beowulf
From: http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/rebeccaray/heroic-journey—beowulf

Jason and the Argonauts
From: http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/anna-warfield/jason-and-the-argonauts-heros-journey

Check out other powerful hero resources at TheHeroPlace, including Hero Wisdom (such as that of script-writing coach Skip Press) and Hero Organizations (such as the Gallery of Heroes) as well as other Hero Tools (such as StoryCraft Hero-Story Writing Software). Also, search or submit to hero databases (such as hero-story databases) from around the Internet in the Your Heroes section of TheHeroPlace.

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From: http://www.frankelassociates.com/calithwain/Heroine.htm
By: Valerie Frankel, author of Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One and Girl to Goddess: The Heroine’s Journey through Myth and Legend, 2012

And this graphic by Valerie Frankel details Female Archetypes:

From: https://runningfather.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/transpersonal-tidbits-the-heros-journey-summary-of-the-steps/

Masculine/Feminine
From: https://hunterswritings.com/2015/10/26/the-heroines-journey-narrative-structure/
originally from Maureen Murdock, Mythcreants

Virgin’s Promise, handwritten, inward spiral
By: Christopher Husberg, incorporating Dan Harmon’s story structure
From: https://hunterswritings.com/2015/10/26/the-heroines-journey-narrative-structure/

By: Victoria Schmidt (drawn by Katie Paul)
From: https://hunterswritings.com/2015/10/26/the-heroines-journey-narrative-structure/

From: https://hunterswritings.com/2015/10/26/the-heroines-journey-narrative-structure/

Heroine’s Journey depicted with 13-hour clock starting at bottom, sub-divided in 4 acts
Drawn by artist Ookami Kasumi
From: https://hunterswritings.com/2015/10/26/the-heroines-journey-narrative-structure/

Square depiction of the circular heroine’s journey and hero’s journey
From: http://www.questcycles.com/heroineexpl.html
and https://hunterswritings.com/2015/10/26/the-heroines-journey-narrative-structure/

Check out other powerful hero resources at TheHeroPlace, including Hero Wisdom (such as that of script-writing coach Skip Press) and Hero Organizations (such as the Gallery of Heroes) as well as other Hero Tools (such as StoryCraft Hero-Story Writing Software). Also, search or submit to hero databases (such as hero-story databases) from around the Internet in the Your Heroes section of TheHeroPlace.

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Graphic illustrating Hero’s Journey as a Spiritual Path:
From: https://themyrobalanseed.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/the-heros-journey-and-the-spiritual-path/

From: http://www.presentation-guru.com/on-structure-the-hidden-framework-that-hangs-your-story-together/

A handwritten style:
From: https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Joseph-Campbell-s-Hero-s-Journey/1

Informal style, in 8 stages
https://runningfather.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/transpersonal-tidbits-the-heros-journey-summary-of-the-steps/

Another variation, with illustrations
From: https://runningfather.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/transpersonal-tidbits-the-heros-journey-summary-of-the-steps/

This Hero’s Journey circular graphic uses 17 stages:
From: http://beverleyglick.com/stories/anyone-can-embark-on-a-heros-journey/

Check out other powerful hero resources at TheHeroPlace, including Hero Wisdom (such as that of script-writing coach Skip Press) and Hero Organizations (such as the Gallery of Heroes) as well as other Hero Tools (such as StoryCraft Hero-Story Writing Software). Also, search or submit to hero databases (such as hero-story databases) from around the Internet in the Your Heroes section of TheHeroPlace.

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The following are some of the most common circular representations of Campbell’s Monomyth and Vogler’s Hero’s Journey

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
Google indicates that this graphic came from Wikipedia with the above link, but that link links to page with the above graphic, not this one. Note this graphic has a typographical error: the word “transformation” is written with “t” overlapping “r”.

From: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-angry-therapist/201708/how-use-the-hero-s-journey-life-coaching-tool

From: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHerosJourney

From: http://heroism.wikia.com/wiki/Hero%27s_Journey

From: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/gloria-tanuseputra/2015/05/02/243/

The classic hero’s journey circular graphic, in French
From: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heroesjourney-fr.svg

Check out other powerful hero resources at TheHeroPlace, including Hero Wisdom (such as that of script-writing coach Skip Press) and Hero Organizations (such as the Gallery of Heroes) as well as other Hero Tools (such as StoryCraft Hero-Story Writing Software). Also, search or submit to hero databases (such as hero-story databases) from around the Internet in the Your Heroes section of TheHeroPlace.

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