waiti learned the hero's journey is a thing that americans do and i'm confused now is that an anglosphere thing
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i learned the hero's journey is a thing that americans do and i'm confused now
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🌳 The Grove 🌳replied to quasar "quasar" translunar last edited by
@quasar well, for writing
But yeah it’s annoyingly entrenched into US narrativecraft… and def influences and is influenced by USian existences with the mythmaking feeding into the kinda shit that’s encouraged for folx to do
It’s such a colonial and conservative way of storytelling… and v pointedly it’s also incredibly sexist, to the fekkin core
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quasar "quasar" translunarreplied to 🌳 The Grove 🌳 last edited by@thedandeliongrove yeah i was just
"huh i never learned that while at school, must be the french" -
Winternet :twinterlune:replied to quasar "quasar" translunar last edited by
@quasar @thedandeliongrove I assume british schools teach this too considering how much it’s entrenched in their literature too so it probably is an english thing
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not_leaderreplied to Winternet :twinterlune: last edited by
@winter @quasar @thedandeliongrove it doesn’t seem to be in the cambridge a level syllabus
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@not_leader @quasar @thedandeliongrove @winter i vaguely remember learning about it at GCSE level (so pre A-level) but more as an archetype for how lots of stories are structured?