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188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) - Second Catharsis, Familial Dislocation ... Kal Bishop's 188 stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188+ stage template...

The Best Of Disney Heroines On Satellite Tv ... 3. Jasmine: Premiering in Aladdin, she is one of the first non-traditional Disney princesses, hailing from Arabia and flaunting her olive skin. Jasmine has some of the typical princess characteristics: beauty, an animal sidekick, etc. But she is remarkably honest and speaks her mind. Despite the fact that she has all the riches she could desire, she does not seek wealth and refuses to marry if it isn't for love. She represents the independent woman who has her eye on the things that really matter in life...

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)

... in ordinary fiction, movies, etc. everything is smoothed out to seem plausible—villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word of it.
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)

When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)