The Heroine's Journey Breaks Boundaries
Meet Michael: First Male Demon of the Heroine's Journey Can immortal demons experience the hero’s journey? Even more so, can male immortal demons experience the heroine’s journey? I personally feel that this is not not possible, and for the sake of my double negative, we should again turn to the TV show, The Good Place , featuring Michael, the main demon . After years of laborious research and watching many episodes of The Good Place , I have found that Michael’s narrative seems to follow Victoria Lynn Schmidt’s heroine’s journey rather than the hero’s journey. The hero’s journey seems more influenced by outside forces, whereas the heroine’s journey is internally driven and each phase seems to be initiated by self agency. Even at the beginning of the heroine’s journey, the heroine is in control. The first two stages are like prerequisites to her adventure, but both are summoned by the heroine herself. The first stage is the “Illusion of a ...