Answer the Adventure Phone

We’ve examined Victoria Lynn Schmidt and Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journies separately and how they relate to different stories, but there is also overlap between the two templates. In fact, many stories featuring a female main character seem to fit with both Murdock’s and Schmidt’s versions of the Heroine’s Journey.   One example of a movie that can fit both Heroine’s Journey templates is Disney’s Tangled , following the story of a girl named Rapunzel, a princess born to the king and queen of the kingdom of Corona. The queen nearly dies of illness while pregnant with Rapunzel but is saved by a magical healing flower that blossomed from a drop of sunlight hitting the ground. Unbeknownst to the king and queen, an old woman named Gothel had been using the flower to restore her youth for many years and is no longer able to use it now that it was taken from the ground to save the queen. Rapunzel is born with golden hair that holds the same magical powers as the flower, and Gothel, u...