Approach to the Inmnost Cave and the Ordeal

Approach to the Inmost Cave

Now our characters approach the middle place between the entrance to the new world and the center of the adventure. At this point the heroes would fall in the zone of Approach; here they "make plans, recognize the enemy, reorganize the group and arm themselves." Also a romance may be ignite, confident heroes will go on a head, information is gather, obstacles confront, dealing with complications and the heroes will put something on a stake.

Ordeal

"The face of the greatest challenge and the most fearsome opponent.' It's secret is that the hero most die and be reborn and when they are reborn they should have change in some way. The ordeal is not the climax, but a dramatic point with a crisis that can appear in the middle, or can be delayed and come near the end of act II. Is the most tense stage for the hero as he must make sacrifices and even pretend to die, watch death or/and kill someone.
Another important part of the ordeal is facing the shadow or the the "hero's fears or rejected qualities which can be demonize or projected into other people. Finally the hero will face the villain in battle and one of them will win and the other may die. Ariadne's Thread is an elastic band that connects heroes' with loved ones, and can help them come back to life. In romantic stories the ordeal can be a crisis of the heart or fear of commitment.

As the hero approaches the cave it most prepared and plan for the ordeal that it would confront a head in the journey; approaching the cave is the perfect place for the hero to think, plan and prepare himself and his company to face his or their biggest fears. The ordeal is when the hero learns who he really is by facing his fears and the outcome may be death. If he comes back to life he would change and be a new and better human. The hero does not have to face the ordeal by himself and sometimes the allies and mentors can become heroes to the hero in distress, as it happens in "The Wizard of Oz"

Vogler mentions how people pay money to have a taste of death; for that feeling of almost dying and coming back to life. We all have always wonder how does it feel to die, because we all know one day it may come to us and we want to be ready for it and for death to be as painless as possible. Even if we all wonder about the feeling of death not many like to take the risk of bungee jumping or the adrenaline of rollercoasters; myself being one of them. I hate rollercoaster and you can not tell me is because I have not try becuase I did, twice. If this is the case does it mean I have an extra fear of death? I do not think so. If I were to die today I don't think I may be afraid since I do not have any regrets.

Questions

1. What is your biggest fear?
2. Do you think people like to ride rollercoasters and do extreme sports to have a taste of death?
3. What is that deffect about yourself that you demonize onto others?