Campbell's Monomyth

This article was very confusing for me. The style of writing seemed very old fashioned, and hard to understand. The way I understood it, was that the article was divided into two parts. The first part talked about tragedy, fear, terror, and how death was an enevitable part of everyone's life. I believe it also talked about how comedy, which brings out joy, is somewhat fake and should not be taken seriously. Basically the first part was very depressing and hard to understand. The second part I understood a little bit more. I believe the article was describing how a typical heroic myth has a typical storyline. I found this very interesting. I think many of the action films today has similar storyline as well. The protagonist sets out from his world, goes through some sort of initiation or training, then defeats the antagonsist at the end. It was also interesting to see that the protagonist continued to pass on his "boon" or his attained power to those around him. I think this is probably the part that gives some closure to readers/viewers. The reader feels that he/she too can abtain the powers the main character has achieved since he decides to teach ordinary people. I think this idea fits the storyline of Star Wars perfectly. I would like to say however, that many modern movies are very abstract and does not follow this storyline. Many movies do not leave you feeling happy or motivated. Sometimes movies these days appears to have no storyline at all. Perhaps the essential moral of this storyline is there in modern movies: whatever happens to the main character could happen to us ordinary people.