Field of Dreams: In Search of the Golden Age

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Field of Dreams: In Search of the Golden Age

Examine the use of the classical hero structure in the plot development of the film

Despite drowning in sentiment and being wrought with unexplained plot holes, Field of Dreams succeeds in capturing the weightless clarity and fearless optimism one experiences looking at the world through the luminescent eyes of a child. As the film probes the nature of heroism, yearning, and redemption, the audience is transported to a time when life was simple. With baseball as unifying metaphor for untarnished innocence in the midst of an apathetic universe, the classical hero structure is employed to emphasize the significance of the hero figure as the embodiment of a society's ideals.

According to Terrence Mann, baseball is "the one constant through all the years has been baseball. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again." Similarly, as Ray Kinsella reminisces about his childhood, his most vivid memory is of playing catch with is father: "with the smell of the ballpark in my nose, with the cool of the grass on my feet, the thrill of the grass." Baseball is, in essence, a