Archetype

tructure of the mind. Freud’s structure of the mind. The id. This part of the mind that Freud explains as the Id refers to the unconscious part of the mind that seeks to find pleasure. Freud believes that because of the Id people act out in certain ways. If the Id is not in par with the ego and super ego it can effect behaviour. As the Id is the part of the mind that holds all basic drives in order to satisfy any needs, the Id is also explained as being impulsive. The Id does not take into…

happening today while using fiction to help demonstrate the problems. Odysseus faces many problems and goes to many different lands to get home. The Odyssey reflects all major tenets of an epic because it has an epic plot and setting, epic hero and archetypes, and epic themes. Odysseus goes through many plots and epic settings on the long, treacherous journey back…

insist on propagating stereotypes despite the ongoing evolvement of archetypes in current society. Although in the final moments of the flick, Elle Woods surpasses such stereotypes and displays aberration, the number of cliches in the movie serves to reinforce negative gender identities. At a young age, gender stereotypes begin sprouting due to the actions of the parents or guardians of a child, whether it be from…

whether a movie is culturally meaningfully in the prewriting stage, of course, may be a hit-or-miss affair, you may find that your first choice does not present any particularly interesting grounds for interpretation. Archetypes are useful features for film analysis as well. An archetype is anything that has been repeated in storytelling from ancient times to the…

huge role in the life of a person, be it in a good or in a bad way, especially in the first years of life. They do not even necessarily have to be biological parents and just be some kind of parental figures. This is why they also might appear as archetypes in the fictional world as well. Most of the time we follow the…

them fear the worse. However, they overcame the fear and continued the journey to help their love ones. Oedipus the King and The Last Witch Hunter also have similarities in archetypes, hero circle, and make ancient literature important. Oedipus the King and The Last Witch Hunter have characters playing similar roles and archetypes. The first example are the main characters; Oedipus and Kaulder are searching for a killer to stop a love one from suffering. Oedipus wanted to find Laios’s killer to…

not want to raise wolves, for we know that the personality of a wolf is against most of our morals and the actions do not align with the warrior ethos. How wolves treat people lessens our morale as humans. If we placed the wolves in The Warrior Archetype, it would still be considered a bully, below a hero, still not a warrior in his fullness. The wolves, or bullies, do not have the same morals or abide by the same ethics set out a warrior in his fullness. They feel the need to prey on the weak…

In The Odyssey, the intermediary part of Odysseus’s journey is his visit to the Underworld, which is a significant part of the midlife crisis archetype of the Odyssey. This visit represents when a person will start of his confrontation and acceptance of death. Homer uses these conversations with ghosts to show how Odysseus’s glory-seeking is something he has to let go at his age. My creative piece hones in specifically on the theme of glory by exploring his conversations with the dead…

The world’s most influential psychologist is without a doubt Sigmund Freud. While Freud’s original concepts are not in use today, Freud is the father of modern psychology. Nonetheless there is a psychologist greater than Freud. Carl Gustav Jung. The inspiration for the New Age and the Catholics, the introverts and extraverts, and the individual and the collective a like. Carl Jung’s theories encompassed the idea that the individual be compelled to become more self-actualized and more in touch…

being diagnosed with stage three terminal lung cancer, and given a short amount of time left to live. In order to help out his family, Walt uses uses his chemistry background to chemically produce the world’s finest crystal meth. Gilligan’s use of archetypes establishes the emblematic setting of a crime, through frequent use of dark tone, different methods of lighting resulting in different types of imagery, whereas his adoption of an antihero, irony regarding the purpose of Walt’s crime, and…