Campbell Table for The Time Machine

    For Other Examples See:
    Table on Star Wars Trilogy | Table Comparing Luke and Dorothy | Fritz Lang's Metropolis


    Campbell's 
    Hero

    Wells' Time Machine 

    Separation

     buiding the machine in the first place and going for the journey
  • Call to Adventure
  •   Doesn't really show up because it happened earlier?  Call is the idea of time travel.   Model is the refusal?  Experiment in which he doen't have to risjk anything?
    • Refusal of Call
    • Answering Call
    Taking the trip
  • Supernatural Aid:
    • Guide
    • Talisman
    • Map
    • Weapon
     Time machine itself is his talisman, map (dials)

    Matches are closest thing he has to magic or to a weapon

    Interesting that he doesn't have a guide

    • Companions
     Only companion he has is Weena, no much of an equal.
  • Crossing the Threshold:  arriving at the world of the Eloi
    • Inn on the border -- 
    • Threshold Guardians
    where the Eloi take him to eat; 
    Sphinx statue
  • Belly of the Whale -- starting the time travel experience (dizy, whirling, downward motion
  • Intiation

     
  • Road of Trials
    • Brother-Battle (confront shadow self)
     Battles wi Morlocks
    • Meeting with Goddess
     Weena
    • Abduction/ Night Sea Journey
    • Dragon Battle
    • Ritual Death, Dismemberment:

    • Sparagmos
  • Sacred Marriage
  • Atonement to/Recognition by the Father
  • Apotheosis
  • Ultimate Boon/ Magic Elixir
  • Return

     
  • Refusal of Return
  • .
    • Magic Flight/ Pursuit 
    .
    • Rescue from Without
    Crossing Return Threshold
    Master of Two Worlds
    • Freedom to Live
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