Essays

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

In this essay, I address Part I, Chapter I, The Adventure of the Hero: Departure, of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.[1] In particular, I focus my analysis on four key elements of the Departure stage; these being The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call,

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

In this essay, I explore how adoption of the graphic novel form by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel for her 2006 autography Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic allowed her, I contend, to create a narrative with a deeper, more nuanced message than that possible in prose form alone.[1] Of

And They Lived Unhappily Ever After: The Anti-Fairy Tale

Introduction In one of the most well-known high fantasy adventure novels of all time, The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Lady Galadriel says about the Ring passing out of knowledge that ‘History (of it) became legend, legend became myth.’ We give legend and myth oral