Archetype

Freud believed in sex as being the key factor for most psychological disorders and neurosis. The main agreement between the two was that a person’s childhood determined future behavior and life. One’s mind is influenced by both experiences and archetypes. Works Cited Jacobus, Lee A. A World of Ideas. 9th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin 's, 2013. Print. McLeod, Saul A. "Carl Jung." Simplypsychology.org. N.p., 2014. Web. 19 Apr. 2016. Sigmund Freud." Sigmund Freud. Copyright 1997, 2006,…

target audience. The mentors in the Coraline graphic novel was portrayed significantly differently in the adaptation of the graphic novel. In every story, characters are given specific archetypes like, trickster, mentor and hero as components that make up the story or make the story more lively. The archetype of the two…

plot lines. One duplicated plot is that of Disney’s The Lion King. A similarity between the two plots is seen in the protagonists Hamlet, in Hamlet, and Simba, in The Lion King. Hamlet and Simba both fit the role of a tragic hero as well as the archetype of an exiled child in their plot lines. Simba and Hamlet can be described as tragic heroes. A tragic hero is defined as, “...a person who faces adversity...however, sometimes he faces downfall” The character is considered a tragic hero, when he…

In the book “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare, there are many different themes that like to hide in conflicts, character emotions/actions, and archetypes. While I was tracking themes in my book, all of these components add up and show significance. The author Cassandra Clare used these different techniques, (also known as author’s craft) in her book to make these . In the following paragraphs, it will explain how some of these components interact within the text among those components. In the…

A Psychoanalytical Approach on Stanger Things Numerous psychologists have developed and offered their own theories regarding personality. These theories have been used to describe human nature in an everyday setting and in characters in fictional works. This paper will apply Carl Jung’s psychoanalytical approach on several character from the Netflix original series, Stranger Things. Carl Jung and Psychoanalytical Psychology Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who began his career in a mental…

Freedom is a major theme in dystopian literature. The suppression of the human rights of the women in “The Handmaids Tale” by Margaret Atwood follows the Freedoms the woman both possess, and lack in their roles as handmaids in Gilead. The speakers of the quote are Offred and aunt Lydia. Offred is the novels narrator and protagonist; the person addressed was the reader as Offred recounts her thoughts on a conversation with aunt Lydia. The passage takes place early on in the story when two…

Today in society, certain genders are seen as particular archetypes. Household work and job opportunities have been seen better for certain genders based on how those genders are expected to act. However, that idea has drastically changed in fictional movies and novels. In the movie The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta have opposite gender roles. “Females have been characterized passive, warm, and caring.”(Gore) An example is in housework. “The work of knitting and sewing may be better suited…

written by William Shakespeare, is a tragedy about two star-crossed lovers. Romeo has just killed Tybalt, so he goes to Friar Lawrence for help, and threatens to kill himself because he is distraught that he has been exiled. The Friar, who is the archetype sage mentor, uses pathos to try to console Romeo. Friar Lawrence tells Romeo, “Killing that love which thou hast vowed to cherish…Go get thee to thy love, as was decreed / Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her” (Shakespeare 3.3.146-164).…

pantheon and the Norse pantheon are extremely similar to one another with similar roles. From Thor to Jupiter to Odin to Hephaestus, the gods in the pantheons. The “trickster” archetype is common throughout both even though it has a more obvious presence in the Norse Pantheon. The honorable warrior and thunder lord archetypes are almost explicitly the same since honorable warriors were at the height of both societies. The main goddesses in both are also extremely similar in their status as…

archetypal / mythological readings are a type of literary criticism that is shaped by cultural mythology, usually Greek mythology, considering the origins of the word archetype are Greek. With the root words being archein and typos, archein meaning ‘original or old ' and typos meaning ‘pattern, model or type ' - hence giving archetype. A perfect example of an archetypal / mythological reading…