The Hero Archetype

In both Star Wars: A New Hope and Harry Potter: The Sorcerer’s Stone there is a clear and strong example of the hero archetype. In Star Wars our hero is Luke Skywalker who defeated Darth Vader and saved the princess. However they themselves were faced with a journey of their own. Their journey consisted of them deciphering R2D2 and finding the princess and discovering their weaknesses and strengths to get through the conflicts that they were faced with. They also had to discover something about themselves along the way. It’s all part of the journey.

                In Harry Potter: The Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry and his friends also had a journey of their own. It’s part of the hero archetype. Unfortunately, however, I didn’t get to see all of the movie so I can’t decipher the whole film, but, from what I did see, Harry and his friends faced many conflicts but, as they faced these conflicts, they learned how to use their powers from spells that they learned in school and put them to good use. However from not seeing the rest of the movie from after the part of where they battled the troll I can’t describe the rest. The End.