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    Exploring Archetypes in Short Stories Archetypes are recurring symbols‚ characters‚ landscapes‚ or events found in myths and literature across different cultures and eras that help us organize events into categories. There are three main types of archetypes which include situational‚ character‚ and symbolic. All three are easily relatable to. Firstly‚ an example of a unhealable wound in a situational archetype can be found with Mrs. Maloney in “Lamb to the Slaughter.” An example of a scapegoat

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    Characters A. The Hero – Lord Raglan in The Hero: A Study in Tradition‚ Myth‚ and Drama contends that this archetype is so well defined that the life of the protagonist can be clearly divided into a series of well-marked adventures‚ which strongly suggest a ritualistic pattern. Raglan finds that traditionally the hero’s mother is a virgin‚ the circumstances of his conception are unusual‚ and at birth some attempt is made to kill him. He is‚ however‚ spirited away and reared by foster parents

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    The Archetypes In Hamlet

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    character’s past? All of these characteristics fall into the category of the archetype‚ and in Hamlet‚ the archetypes of the hero‚ the villain‚ the outcast‚ and the father figure are all met. Simply put‚ an archetype is a stereotypical idea of a person or thing in literature or film‚ or something that is universally recognizable as a symbol. In Hamlet‚ a central archetype is the “hero‚” and Prince Hamlet is able to fit this archetype by fulfilling the criteria of having experienced a traumatic event in

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    Cinderella Archetypes

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    to as an archetype. An archetype is a complex literary term that can be found and understood by examining literature. The first place that archetype can be examined is in Cinderella stories. The Traditional Cinderella story that we have all heard sets our standard for archetype in different cultural stories having Jewish‚ Indian‚ Chinese‚ and modern-day settings. In the Indian Cinderella story‚ "The Rough Faced Girl‚" there are many archetypes that are seen but the Cinderella archetype stands out

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    Archetypes In Mythology

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    Soler Professor Sloan HUM 2310 29 January 2017 Archetypes Archetypes‚ described as “mental forms whose presence cannot be explained by anything in the individual’s own life and which seem to be aboriginal‚ innate‚ and inherited shapes of the human mind” by Carl Jung‚ are “primitive models‚” per its Greek form‚ “arkhetupon.” What this means is that archetypes are part of our unconsciousness that we inherited‚ that exists in everybody. Archetypes relate to our everyday lives as well as in mythology

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    Archetype Changes Archetypes help define who a person is‚ whether they are loving and caring‚ powerful like a sovereign‚ tricky like a wizard or jester‚ or hostile like a warrior or fighter. No one’s archetype stays the same throughout their entire life. At some point in everyone’s lives‚ their archetype changes due to the unpredictable changes in life. A piece of literature that establishes how characters can change from one archetype to another is the story “Sweat”‚ by Zara Neale Hurston. In the

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    Alchemist Archetypes

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    Alchemist Archetypes In the alchemist by Paul Coelho‚ he writes about a shepherd named Santiago. Santiago’s journey is written mainly through situation archetypes. Archetypes are used to categorize people and a situation in stories‚ poems‚ plays ect. The predominant archetypes are situational. The most distinguished archetypes in the alchemist are the initiation‚ the quest‚ death and rebirth‚ the journey‚ and supernatural intervention. The first archetype in the entire book is the initiation;

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    Ismae Archetypes

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    Introduction/ lead Ismae is a archetypal her. What is a archetypal you mye ask. An archetypal hero is someone that follows the 12 step of the hero’s journey (and the 8 element of hero’s characteristics). Now that you know what an archetypal hero is‚ I can show you why Ismae is one. The first step in Ismae 12 steps is the ordinary world. On page 1 and 2 Ismae is being sold to Gruillo to be his wife.” I risk a glance up at my husband-to-be‚ Guillo‚ and wonder if my father has told him of my

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    Similar to most literary classics‚ William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies contains allusions to the Christian Bible and character archetypes that establish universal ideas. Golding’s story focuses on a group of British schoolboys who are stranded on an island and succumb to their innate savage tendencies. Literary analysts compare aspects of Lord of the Flies to the Christian Bible such as the setting‚ a lush island in the Pacific Ocean‚ to the Garden of Eden. Likewise‚ the characters in the novel

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    warrior‚ and chief character archetypes in protecting the planet earth from absolute destruction. The character archetype of a hero is generally the one who embarks on a journey to complete a task in order to reestablish an optimum way of living or perfection in a community. Optimus Prime fits this character archetype because he embarks on the journey to find the Allspark to restore power and fertility to Cybertron (Transformers). The other character archetype is of a warrior which represents

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