The mythic structure in the black dome of the Haftpeikar: Study of Hero's journey in the first dome

• Main Authors: Seyed Kazem Mousavi, Maryam Behzadnezhad, Armina Sargsyan
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: University of Isfahan 2016-12-01
• Series: Literary Arts
• Subjects: Key Words: The writer's Journey; Christopher Vogler; Joseph Campbell; Haftpeikar
• Online Access: http://liar.ui.ac.ir/article_21202_e04c9de8f93d16dcb12aabb8df01f93d.pdf
• ISSN: 2008-8027; 2322-3448

Abstract In this paper the Vogler Hero's journey is used for analyzing the mythic structures and hero's journey of the first dome of the Haftpeikar. Vogler Released his founds in the Writer's Journey book. This book that is really dependent on Campbell's Single Myth Theory is a practical guidance for script writing and review of that. The levels of the hero's journey in his book are include: The normal world, invitation to the story, reject the invitation, visit the mentor, passing the first gate, the exams, the allies, the enemies, qualifying to the deepest cave, trial, the reward, the road back, resurrection, return with the elixir.  In this paper, at first the properties of each level of the hero's journey theory are matching with the journey's levels in the black dome story. After that seven useful archetypes including hero, mentor, threshold guardian, herald, shape shifter, the shadow and trickster, are determined in the text.  Black dome has several journeys' cycles. Journey's that are seen in this dome are: (Bahram's journey): A part of the internal journey of Bahram in black dome. (The king's maid journey): Internal journey of the king's maid that wears black clothes after hearing the story. (King of black clothes' journey): The king's journey to the Madhooshan city for exploring the mystery of the black alien. (The reader's journey): This internal journey belongs to the readers of the first dome that learn their lessons through traveling to the character's world. (Nezami's journey): The Nezami's internal journey with composing the text. Checking the reader's journey and black dome's composer is out of this text. While the first and second journey just saying some parts, the black king has completer levels and for affecting on the other journeys is the most important story of the first dome. Therefore at first we check the black king story and we explain the other journeys.  The goal of this paper in addition to the usage of the vogler's pattern in analyzing old texts, checks the shape of defeated heroes' pattern and difference between the winner heroes and him. These differences in the eighth level (Big test), ninth (big reward) and tenth (road back) of pattern are observed and reviewed.  The king goes forward to the eighth level according to the heroes' pattern but defeats in the big test. According to the Ghous table of hero's personality, the king must try to change in the big test but he doesn't have the proper power for changing and he sees the results of defeat and not trying. The ninth level in named reward level and the most important property of that is taking over. But only the big test winner heroes rich achieve what they want. The king that can't abandon his desires and can't wait isn't deserved for reward. He not only doesn't get a reward, but also avoids living in the sky garden. In the tenth level, road back, the heroes chose between returning to the normal world and staying in the special world themselves. But the defeated king doesn't have any choosing rights because he is abandoned from the special world and if he has any choosing right never left the sky garden. The king isn't like those heroes that return to the normal world proudly and certainly return will not easy for him. King that fell down in the big test by his lusts must die to reborn in his new character as blacks king like a innocent man that learned big test courses in the other time (Revitalization). The king, who didn't accept changes in the big test, was changed in the revitalization level and synchronized his journey's cycle with the other heroes. Wearing black clothes, changing the behavior (staying away from the happiness) and also his new title (blacks' king) are his revitalization signs. The blacks king story is a review of human's fall mythic on the earth regret of being far away from his real position.  In the twelfth level, the king appears in the role of mentor old pattern and accept the role of other old patterns that is faced them in the way of the journey earns the merge property. Merging or making something united means that hero has transferred journey courses to some parts of his body. All of his thoughts are being examined in an ideal peak point and let him to show that he has merged the mentor, shape shifter, shadow, guardian, allies in his way. The king, like the passenger of his guest house encourages ones who searching for reality to know his mystery by wearing black clothes (herald archetype). With avoiding telling his mystery appears in the role of threshold guardian archetype and by seeing the inclination of his maid to know, masks the mentors' archetype on his face.