{"id":3879,"date":"2019-11-20T18:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:45:20","slug":"refusal-of-the-call-heros-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/refusal-of-the-call-heros-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusal of the Call: The Hero&#8217;s Journey, Stage 2 (Explained)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is stage 2 of Joseph Campbell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-the-heros-journey\/\">hero&#8217;s journey<\/a>? What is the &#8220;refusal of the call&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The refusal of the call is the initial reluctance of a hero to follow the steps of their destiny and heed the call of adventure. The refusal of the call is stage 2 of Joseph Campbell&#8217;s hero&#8217;s journey, from <em>The Hero with a Thousand Faces<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll cover what the refusal of the call entails and look at an example of a hero refusing the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Refusal of the Call<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A common feature of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/monomyth-stages-heros-journey\/\">monomyth<\/a> is the hero\u2019s refusal of the call<\/strong>, an initial reluctance to follow the steps of their destiny. In folk tales and myths across the world and throughout history, this refusal amounts to a selfish impulse to give up one\u2019s narrow, immediate interests in the pursuit of spiritual awakening or even the salvation of the universe. In psychoanalytic terms,<strong> the refusal represents the clinging to infantile needs for security<\/strong>. Thus, the mother and father are the figures preventing true growth and transformation as the ego fails to develop and embrace the world outside the nursery.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The refusal of the call can have grave consequences, both for the hero and for the wider world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In <em>One Thousand and One Nights, <\/em>a collection of medieval folk tales from the Middle East, a Persian city is turned to stone by the wrath of Allah\u2014<strong>punishment for the refusal of the people of the city to heed the call of God.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li><li>In the Book of Exodus, Lot\u2019s wife is turned into a pillar of salt for looking back on the burning cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which she had been commanded by God not to do.&nbsp;<\/li><li>There is the medieval European legend of the Wandering Jew, cursed to walk the earth until Christ\u2019s return, as penance for having taunted mankind\u2019s redeemer on the way to his crucifixion.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is hope for our reluctant heroes. While some of them, like those we\u2019ve mentioned above, are bound to their fate, others are not. Not everyone who hesitates is forever beyond salvation or has lost their opportunity to fulfill their destiny.&nbsp;The refusal of the call isn&#8217;t final.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Refusal of the Call Example: <strong>Prince Kamar al-Zaman and Princess Budur<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This concept of the refusal of the call is well illustrated in the <em>Arabian Nights<\/em> tale of Prince <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/kamar-al-zaman\/\">Kamar al-Zaman<\/a> and Princess Budur. In it, the prince has rejected his father\u2019s demands that he take a wife, citing <strong>his desire to commit his life to Allah and avoid the pleasures (and sins) of the flesh.&nbsp;<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sultan is advised to broach the subject with his son in the presence of a great council of state, the rationale being that the prince will surely be goaded into accepting marriage under these conditions of immense social pressure. But Kamar al-Zaman again refuses his father and insults him in front of his great ministers and viziers. Enraged, Kamar al-Zaman\u2019s father has him imprisoned in a decrepit tower, where he is to reflect upon the injury and shame he has brought upon his family.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simultaneously, in distant China, Princess Budur\u2014the beautiful daughter of the emperor\u2014is similarly refusing marriage to all suitors her father presents to her. She even threatens to kill herself with a sword if he brings up the subject of matrimony again. Like the sultan, the emperor locks his daughter up and appoints ten old women to guard her. He then sends messengers to all the kingdoms of Asia, telling the rulers that Princess Budur has gone mad.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Both the hero and the heroine have taken the negative path and refused the call of destiny. <\/strong>They are a predestined match, but it will take a miracle to bring them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is stage 2 of Joseph Campbell&#8217;s hero&#8217;s journey? What is the &#8220;refusal of the call&#8221;? The refusal of the call is the initial reluctance of a hero to follow the steps of their destiny and heed the call of adventure. The refusal of the call is stage 2 of Joseph Campbell&#8217;s hero&#8217;s journey, from The Hero with a Thousand Faces. 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