Archetypes essay

Archetypes are recurring events or ideas that happened in books and movies. Like hero vs. villain, conflict between the hero and his family, and how the hero is always triumphant and the villain always is really dark. Archetypes are important parts of culture and tradition because many legends, myths, and stories follow these ideas and events. The recurring events are shown through many stories such as The Three Little Pigs, The Fenris Wolf, and The Legend of Gloosgap. All these stories have some sort of recurring factor of the story that causes conflict.
In The Three Little Pigs archetypes are mainly present through the wolf and each of the little pigs. The main conflict that the pigs face is that the wolf comes to their house asking the two pigs to come in each of their houses and they refuse, so the wolf huffs and puffs and blows their house down and eats them. The third pig being the smart one decides to play a game with the wolf. He refuses to let the wolf in and the wolf tries with all his might to blow the house down but it doesn’t work. The wolf gets and idea and ties to get the pig out of the house and tells him to meet him at Mr. Smith home – field at six o’clock and that they will get dinner together. The pig outsmarts him and leaves at five o’clock and comes back by the time the wolf gets to his house. He keeps doing this and outsmarting the wolf, soon the wolf gets mad and declares that he will eat him up and that he would get down the chimney. The little pig decides to boil a pot full of water and the wolf falls in to it and the pig boils him up and eats him. This shows that the cleverness of the third pig prevailed.
In The Fenris Wolf the wolf is portrayed as strong and powerful character that thinks he will get what he wants. In the end the wolf gets defeated and the power and dominance is turned over to the protagonist. The hero in this story is as strong as the wolf physically but has a significant amount of knowledge and uses it to his