Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is entirely centered around the power and inherent mystery of the sea. Many authors use sea-related or oceanic trends of language to paint natural backdrops for their stories. The natural backdrop against which an author places a hero heavily influences the reader’s understanding of him or her and whether such representation engenders readers’ pity or awe.
Such is the nature of all literature: heroes endlessly inhabit the American Canon, albeit in different contexts, and often, these contexts can pivotally determine how a hero appears before the reader. By the title, he suggests that heroes are everywhere there is one general framework, but the hero’s face always changes. In the Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Cambell explores the definition of hero.
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