Chapter 21- Claiming Your Life Myth Summary and Analysis

The book describes a basic pattern of a generic person's life as the journey of a hero. The author encourages readers to write their life's story as an ancient, poetic myth. The twelve archetypes represent the path of a person's life, but can also be looked on as themes for stories and works of art. Success is on a person's own terms. If a Lover, looking for people and ideas to love, is compared to a person who thinks as a Warrior, the Lover would probably not appear to be a success. A person can learn what the dominant script of their life is, and try to examine that script and its archetype at a higher level. A script represents a simple sketch of an archetype such as the Lover or...