Abstract
Mary Ross writes about Jungian influences in Nabokov’s PALE FIRE. This paper traces the steps of Charles Kinbote, aka King Charles Xavier II of Zembla, along literature's well-worn path, the Hero's Journey. The mythologist and Jungian scholar Joseph Campbell popularized the idea of the universal monomyth in his 1949 work, The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Following the steps outlined by Campbell, she cites the chapter headings and their opening sentences from his book, commenting on each to demonstrate how Kinbote's journey from Zembla to "Arcady" is parodied in Pale Fire, but leads in the end to a Nabokovian ambiguous conclusion.
