Hero's Journey: Slaves to Structure Stifle The Story

One apt criticism of the heropath, or hero's journey, approach to mythology is that the structure (Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Supernatural Aid, Crossing the First Threshold, etc.) does not fit all hero-oriented myths. Readers of Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces were quick to point out that he illustrated the stages in the journey with multiple myths rather than carrying the structure lock, stock and barrel through one continuing example.

The problem with general th...