: Immortal cultural themes Several years ago I studied literature in a university. And I remember my lector told us about a book where author claims to describe all immortal themes, on which almost

Several years ago I studied literature in a university. And I remember my lector told us about a book where author claims to describe all immortal themes, on which almost every fiction book, every tale and so on is based. There were from five to seven themes as I remember and themes are pretty generic, but I always wanted to read it. And unfortunately I remember no author nor book's name.
So I thought maybe someone here knows what I'm talking about and tell me what is that book.
I remember only one of those themes. If I'm not mistaken, one of them is called "return of the hero". The name speaks for itself.

So please, if you have thoughts what this book could be, share them with me!

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Probably "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", a book by Joseph Campbell, that explains how most of the myths, in various cultures, are based on the same main themes. Those themes are universal, in their symbolic meaning.

It explains in details, and with multiple examples, how the monomyth, the journey of the Hero, has to start with a reluctant character, forced to leave his initial situation, meets a mentor, goes through various trials that involves facing his own fears, then he fights the main Evil character (symbol of the father figure), and goes back to the "mortal world", changed by his journey.

(my explanation is approximative, Wikipedia may give more details)

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