Red Apple Archetypes

The first archetype Is the evil stepmother she represents revenge and evil towards the son because she wanted all the inheritance for her own daughter. You will notice the evil stepmother in other fairy tales with the same evil towards her step kids for example Cinderella . The second archetype is Mother Nature she represents life and brith so in the beginning of the story then the mother couldn't get pregnant but in the story the juniper give her life and she had a baby. Another thing with Mother Nature is in the Greek culture Mother Nature can heal nurture support the life on earth, when his bones was placed under the juniper tree it healed it into a bird. The third archetype is the bird it represents innocence and the advantages to go in the sky or "heaven" as in that era they didn't have airplane. The bird was used to show us how innocent the boy was. The fourth archetype is the milestone that represents strength because a milestone is extremely heavy to have around your neck as a bird. The fifth milestone is the red Apple that is used in many fairy tales it represents death and re for blood. The red apple has danger around It. Those are the 5 archetype that I have …show more content…
Some far fetched thing are The dead boy because a bird then back to a boy , the "devil" whispering in the step mother ear and the bird be able to lift up a milestone. These incidents are very unbelievable that make it a fairytale. The evil character there is always the main evil that is out for revenge in this it's the stepmother. She out for revenge because she want all the inheritance for her daughter so her killing the little boy is the way to get it. The evil character is one of the main parts of a fairytale. The universal truth in the juniper tree it was an coming of age because he was killed, turned into a bird then went back to a kid. That showed his maturity or as you can say his coming of