Open AccessINITIATION OF THE HEROES IN THE PILGRIMAGE AND DISCOVER YOUR DESTINY: A CAMPBELLIAN PERSPECTIVE
Author(s) -
Neha Arun Hariyani
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
towards excellence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0974-035X
DOI - 10.37867/te100220
Subject(s) - destiny (iss module) , pilgrimage , hero , perspective (graphical) , manifest destiny , aesthetics , history , art , philosophy , literature , law , theology , political science , visual arts , engineering , politics , aerospace engineering
The present paper aims to attempt a comparative study of Paulo Coelho’s The Pilgrimageand Robin Sharma’s Discover Your Destiny in the light of Joseph Campbell’s theory of Initiation on the Spiritual Journey as contained in his seminal work The Hero with a housand Faces. The paper shows how the protagonists in both The Pilgrimage and Discover Your Destiny in the manner of Campbell’s hero, meet their guides as they cross the threshold, how they are aided, tested by the human and the mysterious forces and also how they eventually meet their destiny. At the same time attempt has also been made to translate the postulates of Campbell’s philosophy in terms of the needs and aspirations of the modern man.