A Hero Is Someone Who Understands the Responsibility That Comes with His Freedom

According to Bob Dylan, ”A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” Over 400 years ago in Ancient, Atalanta was a woman who was more powerful than any man. It is questionable whether or not” Atalanta” follows the hero’s journey which is an archetype plot that a hero story adheres to.“Atalanta” follow the last two stages of the hero’s journey but the myth deviates from the archetype in the departure stage. The first stage of Atalanta's hero’s journey does not follow the pattern because she did not have a choice to become a hero. For example, Atalanta’s father leaves her to die, but she “grew” this into an active, daring little girl (Hamilton). This is because in Greek some fathers wanted sons to take over there work or when they get married, the girl he married would have the family name, so that they have like a rule over the family. For these reasons this made her father bitterly disappointed, to the instance, her left her like she was an object to die. In addition, In the first stage of the hero journey, the hero usually starts in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unusual world of strange powers and event, but in this case is different because Atalanta is called to the adventure at birth. Thus, the first stage of Atalanta's hero journey does not follow the pattern because she did not have a choice to become a hero. This is because she was forced into new life, lacks choice. Many heroes are not born a hero but she was.No matters what she with trow she always found a positive impact to her being a girl and that made her the person she knows not like the other hero because they did not face being thrown into the mountainside to die. The second stage of Atalanta's hero’s journey does follow the pattern because she has a challenge, to prove that she is the fastest runner in Greece and a great huntress. According to D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’ Auaire in 1962, she runs swiftly hither and thither till she could take good aim, and then she let an arrow fly. The arrow stopped the boar just in time to save the life of a hero who had stumbled in front of the onrushing beast. This is because she was the faster runner and the greatest huntress of all of the man that was asked to come to Calydonia and hunt down the best. The men grumbled and whined when they saw that this, they were just being jealous that a woman can beat them at all of at hunting and running. Therefore, the myth of Atalanta follows the second stage of the hero’s journey because she has the challenge of the boar and victory in stopping it and she was giving trophies by Meleager because she was the one to stop the boar. The third stage of Atalanta hero journey follows and does not follow the pattern because she returned to her father homes with her approval. It is also not following the hero journey because there no rescue and she really does not come back with anything that helps her or other people when she returned. The funniest and saddest part of the story was when Atalanta proved her father wrong