Approach to the Inmost Cave and The Ordeal

In Vogler's explanation of the stages, Approach to the Inmost Cave and the Ordeal, he illustrates the centeral ideas through using The Wizard of Oz as a reference. Beginning with the approach to the inmost cave, it is clear that this stage is packed with many different elements. All previous steps play an influential role in this stage and the impacts on the characters are clearly seen. The focus throughout this stage seems to be on strengthen the team and redefining their common goal. Through this, the characters become more prepard to face the ordeal that awaits them. In this stage, the ordeal, Vogler emphasizes death and rebirth, physically and emotionally. In addition, he explains the audiences appeal for a taste of death. Ultimately, during this stage the hero conquors or accomplishes their goal by defeating the villian; what frightens them the most.
The Wizard of Oz is a perfect text to show the many stages involved in putting connecting the stages together. I believe that these two stages are the most important and crucial to the story, and involve the most thought. Much of what Vogler described has become second nature to texts, such as "getting into the skin" of the threshold guardians they are trying to escape from or being faced with heavy defenses. The many ways that rebnirth and death can be depicted is also crucial to allowing for variety in a text, which Vogler demonstrates through many different examples of this statement.
Although I believe that theses stages are the most crucial in captivating the audiences attention and promting a good ending, the way that Vogler explains the basic outline is too text specific. It is possible that he was trying to incorporate every possible aspect that could be in the specific stage, but it did not serve to help my understanding. The overall focuses of each stage were well defined, though, and allowed me to understand the essence of each stage.

Questions:
1. Where there parts within the stages that seemed forgein to you?
2. What do you think the most influential scene within each stage is?
3. Can you think of an example of Scared Marriage in a text? What does this scene represent to you, if anything at all?