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     Do Revenge is a Netflix movie that came out last year. Initially, I wasn’t sure if this movie would fit into the heroine’s journey, but I realized it is a perfect representation of Victoria Lynn Schmidt’s diagram. In this post, I will only talk about the first four steps of Schmidt’s diagram so I won’t spoil the whole movie. I do think if you watch the whole movie you would understand my initial confusion when trying to compare it to the heroine’s journey because, by the end of the movie, the main character doesn’t seem to change very much. She also doesn’t battle with her femininity in the same way that Elle in Legally Blonde did. But the first four steps of the heroine’s journey seem to fit very well with Do Revenge , and even though she doesn’t face all of the problems outlined in Schmidt’s diagram, she does generally go through the steps and has her own sort of personal development even if it isn’t directly related to her relationship with her gender.  The ...

       In class, we shortly discussed who Siddhartha’s supernatural aid was. Govinda could have been his supernatural aid as he encouraged him to go on his journey of finding enlightenment. Siddhartha himself could have been his own supernatural aid. He was constantly rejecting the idea of being a student and receiving help from anyone, so it would make sense that he would have no supernatural aid than himself. I think that Gotama was Siddhartha’s supernatural aid because it was not until he met him that he figured out his plan for enlightenment. Siddhartha had left his home with the goal to become a Samana. After spending time learning and mastering their ways, he still felt unfulfilled and sought out Gotama in hopes of discovering the secret to enlightenment. It was not until his conversation with Gotama that he realized the only way to his own enlightenment was to go on his own journey, just as Gotama did. Supernatural aid in the hero’s journey has two substep...