Almost every hero story ever made has a similar type of plot. This plot is called the monomyth or the Hero’s Journey. Joseph Campbell’s “monomyth” is a unique sequence of actions that is found in almost every hero story. The movie Spiderman directed by Sam Raimi follows the monomyth by having the departure, the initiation, the return and their respective stages within. To start with, the movie Spiderman has a clear “Departure”.…
Just imagine a life where you feel like you have no one to fall back on. Your parents become abusive and alcoholics, and you don't feel like living with them anymore. In the book “The Foxman” a similar event happens to the main character and his parents. He gets sent to his Aunt Mildred and his Uncle Harold’s house due to an event of his mother slashing at him underneath the kitchen table with a butcher knife. In the book it shows the many different types of archetypes present, which includes archetypes of a witch, wise old man, and a hero.…
Archetypes are common patterns that come from the collective unconscious and are shown symbolically in dreams and myths (Fontana). Three archetypes that are often seen are the ego, shadow, and the Self. These archetypes are shown in various films, and the movie Remember the Titans is no exception. That movie in…
What Does It Take to Be a Hero? Heroes are often portrayed as crime fighters or saviors. However, anyone who shows courage, selflessness, and virtues qualifies for the hero archetype. Steven Spielberg’s 1982 film E.T. the Extra Terrestrial narrates the Taylor family's efforts to illegally house an alien long enough to escort E.T. to it’s mothership for a return to the species planet without seeking attention from scientists or police.…
I will show this by illustrating the archetypes, stereotypes, characters, symbols, motifs and binary opposites in the works of movies: Fern Gully, Lion King, Pocahontas and Avatar. To begin in the film Fern Gully, Krysta is the main protagonist and she is portrayed throughout the movie as a nurturing female archetype and she appears to be the prodigy of Magi. Magi is sought out to be a mentor archetype and showing Krysta the ways of a fairy. The plot begins as Zak Young is walking through the forest and he is working for someone that is into the lumber business. It starts out at this beautiful place with abundant fruit and animals everywhere, Zak is a careless kid from the city, marking trees to be cut down.…
For whatever reason, writers tend to categorize female characters more strictly than they do male characters. Generally using the “Big 8” archetypes, women are placed into confining molds with little to no room for variation. Whether they play the role of the sweet, virginal Innocent or the plain and wise Sage, women, especially when written by male authors, rarely exhibit the same complex personalities as their male counterparts. Even worse, authors sometimes pervert these archetypes, exaggerating the worst qualities of each, as seen in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.…
There are many types of archetypes, but I will be focusing on the archetypal victim lens. The archetypal victim lens focuses on the disadvantaged and weakest character. Since the beginning Prince Hamlet comes off as the victim when he is first introduced. When Prince Hamlet comes…
In this short story, “A Good Man is hard to Find” about retaliation, Flannery O’Connor uses archetypes to demonstrate that the traumatic experience The Misfit went through when he was thrown in jail is the cause as to why he is a killer and commits horrendous crimes. Throughout the short story, O’Connor uses situational, symbolic, setting and character archetypes. Situational archetypes is when a situation or plot is repeated over and over and represents the same thing. Here, O’Connor uses vengeance as a situational archetypes, as the Misfit is taking vengeance by killing people after being wrongly accused of a crime he didn’t commit. For symbolic archetype, symbols that have occurred time and time again representing the same thing, she uses…
Another example of “archetype” can be found in fathers’ hostile attitude towards sons in Greek myths in which Uranus imprisoned his sons deep within Earth and Cronus swallowed each child of his except Zeus to prevent them from taking over his power. Furthermore, we can interpret what made the fathers hate even kill their children was their desire for absolute control and power over the world. Unfortunately, this part of their…
Early gods, as well as spirit animals and mythological creatures were also widely accepted by the characters throughout. 2. What archetypes can you identify in Bless Me, Ultima? How do they reflect the ethnic and cultural heritage of the characters in the novel? How do they relate to the themes of the novel?…
Final paper The name movie of the movie I have chosen to talk about his called Spiderman. The movie was directed by Sam Raimi. Spider-Man focus on a student name Peter Parker. Peter parker is a boy who got bit by a genetically-altered spider who gave him superhuman strength and the spider-like ability to cling to any surface.…
War of the Worlds The year 1897 was invaded by the science fictional novel War of the Worlds by the author H.G Wells. It is a first person narrative that takes place within the city of London, England. Aliens from the planet Mars had invaded Earth with the intention to conquer and enslave the human population, but against all the odds, the innocent narrator survives the villainous galactic beings. War of the Worlds incorporates the innocent main character, dominating extraterrestrials, nature against mechanistic symbolism and an initiation situation to be analysed from an archetypal approach.…
Big Analysis What are archetypes? Archetypes are the recurring themes in stories. Archetypes can be found in almost any part of a story, or any story in general. You can find situational archetypes, character archetypes, and symbolic archetypes in any story, and they will always follow the same cycle. The first stage of archetypes is the golden age.…
One of Tim Burton’s main archetypes is contrast. Tim Burton uses numerous cinematic techniques to show contrast between settings and characters. Some of his movies that show this the most are Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Corpse Bride. He uses contrasting lighting, non-diegetic sound, and colors to show the difference between settings and people. Tim Burton uses different types of non-diegetic sound to show the contrast in certain settings in his movies.…
Graphic 1 Activity 1 Theme: Revenge Activity 2 Revenge takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched until the last man standing has fallen Activity 3 In the amazing Spiderman we saw when peter uncle got shot at the shop peter wanted to get revenge on the person who shot his uncle. As we see in graphic 1 the girl expression and body language shows that she is going out to get revenge on someone. The girl face expression shows that she is angry and her body language tells us that she is ready to fight with someone.…