An Analysis of Star Wars: A New Hope as a Hero's Journey
Although the main storyline of Star Wars can be easily analyzed within the scope of the Hero’s Journey, it could also be argued that multiple Heroes’ Journeys occur in parallel within the film. For this blog, I’d like to focus on Han Solo’s journey as a side hero in the story. Han Solo’s hero’s journey starts off with a call to adventure, when Obi-Wan and Luke commission his ship, the Millenium Falcon , to smuggle them to Alderaan, while “avoiding any Imperial entanglements”. Perhaps not in immediate refusal to this call, but in hesitancy nonetheless, he charges them extra, 10,000 credits, for his trouble. His true refusal of the call comes later, once they arrive upon the scene of an obliterated Alderaan, and the Death Star. Captured inside the docking bay of the station, plotting their escape, Solo, annoyed, says “Whatever you say. I've done more than I bargained for on this trip already.” Here, he feels that he’s been cheated, that this was not the adventure he was initi...