Literature and Contemporary Media: Campbell's Monomyth in video game trilogies "Dragon Age" and "Mass Effect"

Medić, Ana

undergraduate thesis

Literature and Contemporary Media: Campbell's Monomyth in video game trilogies "Dragon Age" and "Mass Effect"

Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017. urn:nbn:hr:142:045402

Medić, Ana

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

Institutional repository: FFOS-repository

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Medić, A. (2017). Literature and Contemporary Media: Campbell's Monomyth in video game trilogies "Dragon Age" and "Mass Effect" (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:045402

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Medić, Ana. "Literature and Contemporary Media: Campbell's Monomyth in video game trilogies "Dragon Age" and "Mass Effect"." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:045402

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Medić, A. (2017). 'Literature and Contemporary Media: Campbell's Monomyth in video game trilogies "Dragon Age" and "Mass Effect"', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 12 September 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:045402

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Medić A. Literature and Contemporary Media: Campbell's Monomyth in video game trilogies "Dragon Age" and "Mass Effect" [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2017 [cited 2024 September 12] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:045402

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A. Medić, "Literature and Contemporary Media: Campbell's Monomyth in video game trilogies "Dragon Age" and "Mass Effect"", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2017. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:045402

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Title	Literature and Contemporary Media: Campbell's Monomyth in video game trilogies "Dragon Age" and "Mass Effect"
Title (croatian)	Književnost i suvremeni mediji: Campbellov monomit u videoigrama "Dragon Age" i "Mass Effect"
Author	Ana Medić
Mentor	Ljubica Matek (mentor)
Granter	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English Language and Literature) Osijek
Defense date and country	2017-09-06, Croatia
Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline	HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology Anglistics
Abstract	Storytelling is one of basic human activities and it has multiple purposes in human life: educational, socializational, therapeutic, and entertaining. In his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell claims that the path of the hero develops according to a similar pattern in mythology and literature worldwide and throughout human history because it reenacts in various historical and cultural contexts the same basic story of a kind of a rite of passage. People identify and sympathize with the hero and through his or her adventures and trials learn about themselves and cope with their problems, just as heroes manage to overcome monsters or complete various quests. Today, the advancement of technology and the emergence of contemporary media enables storytelling to assume new forms and achieve new levels of interactivity. Video games are such an example where the player can achieve a previously unattainable level of immersion by projecting their identity onto the character should they wish so, and influencing the narrative directly via their actions and decisions. This essay analyzes the main similarities between Campbell's Monomyth model and video game trilogies Mass Effect and Dragon Age and suggests that even the new digital media continue to observe the hero's pattern as outlined in Campbell's Monomyth.
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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:142:045402
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
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