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Amasha, Abeer Wasef. A Critical Approach to the Mythic Mode in Joseph Campbell’s ”The Hero with a Thousand Faces” and George Lucas’s ”Star Wars” An M. A. Thesis, faculty of Arts. Mansoura University, 2014.
The thesis supposes that Joseph Campbell’s work is an example of the old pattern of myth, and George Lucas’s work is the modern secularized face of myth, therefore; the thesis investigates the role of ancient mythology in modern art and culture as a whole, exemplified in Joseph Campbell’s seminal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and applies such a study on George Lucas’s Star Wars.
Depending on the exposure of the term mythology and ”monomyth” it has been proved how the work of Lucas, as an example of the modernistic face of myth, successfully meets the mythic criterion and scheme presented in Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The study is carefully scrutinized to show that everyone can be elevated to the state of a hero; what counts is the inner self which stands as the urge and motive towards the main objective that is self discovery. The thesis investigates some central messages Lucas’s film succeeded in highlighting such as; the importance of family, the restoration of the natural emotions of love and forgiveness, loyalty, friendship, and faith. Forever, there will be a struggle between good and evil, and man has the ability and chance to choose between the two. The thesis aims at conveying and communicating a message throughout Lucas’s film, that: we must remember our humanity lest we be absorbed or destroyed by our machine creations.