ARCHETYPES

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ARCHETYPES
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What is an Archetype?
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What is an Archetype?

• Archetype an original model or pattern from
  which other later copies are created.

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What is an Archetype?

• Archetype an original model or pattern from
  which other later copies are created.
• Especially a character, an action, or a situation

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Characteristics of Archetypes

• They are not individual they are the part we
  share with all humanity.
• They are the inherited part of being human which
  connects us to our past and go beyond our
  experience to a common source.
• They express themselves in forms.
• They are universal.
• They are recurrent.

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SITUATIONAL ARCHETYPES

• The Journey
• The Quest
• The Task
• The Initiation
• The Fall

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The Journey

• Sends the hero in search for some truth or
  information necessary to restore the kingdom.
  Usually the hero descends into a real or
  psychological hell and is forced to discover the
  darkest truths, quite often concerning his own
  faults.

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The Journey

• Think of a movie youve seen or a novel youve
  read that contains the situational archetype of a
  journey.

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The Journey
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The Journey

• Batman

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The Journey

• Batman
• Leaves his place of luxury, descends into a
  rougher world, and learns combat skills etc then
  returns to Gotham to protect its people.

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The Journey

• Batman
• Star Wars

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The Journey

• Batman
• Star Wars
• Forrest Gump

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The Journey

• Batman
• Star Wars
• Forrest Gump
• The Odessey

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The Quest

• The heros ultimate goal. When achieved, this
  will restore the kingdom.

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The Quest

• Lord of the Rings

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The Quest

• Destruction of the ring will save the world from
  evil.

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The Task

• To save the kingdom, to win the fair lady, to
  identify himself so that he may resume his
  rightful position. The hero must perform some
  nearly superhuman deed.

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The Task

• Star Wars

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The Task

• Can you think of another movie that involves a
  nearly impossible task?

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The Task

• Tommy Boy

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The Initiation

• An initiation into life that is the depiction of
  an adolescent coming into maturity and adulthood
  with all the problems and responsibilities this
  process involves. An awakening, awareness, or a
  larger view of the world and the people in it
  usually forms.

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The Initiation

• Any examples?

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The Initiation

• Snow White and the Huntsman

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The Initiation

• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Dead Poets Society

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The Initiation

• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Dead Poets Society

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The Fall

• A decent from a higher to a lower being. This
  experience involves a loss of innocence and
  happiness. Usually accompanied by expulsion from
  a kind of paradise as a punishment.

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The Fall

• Thor

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CHARACTER ARCHETYPES

• Hero
• Young Man From the Provinces
• Mentor
• Magic Weapon
• Devil Figure (Evil)
• Villain
• Scapegoat
• Star-Crossed Lovers

• Hunting Group of Companions
• Outcast
• Creatures of Nightmare
• Friendly Beast
• Apparently Evil Figure with an Ultimately Good
  Heart
• Woman Figure

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The Hero (Protagonist)

• His or her life can be clearly divided into a
  series of well-marked adventures.

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Young Man from the Provinces

• This hero is taken away as a young man or woman
  and raised by strangers. He later returns to his
  home and heritage where he or she is a stranger
  who can see new problems and solutions.

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The Mentor

• A teacher, counselor, and role model to the hero.
• The mentor teaches by example the skills
  necessary to survive the quest.

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The Magic Weapon

• This symbolizes the extraordinary quality of the
  hero because no one else can wield the weapon or
  use it to its full potential. It is often given
  by the mentor.

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The Devil Figure (Evil)

• This character offers worldly goods, fame or
  knowledge to the hero in exchange for possession
  of his soul.

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The Villain Scapegoat

• This character attempts to foil the efforts of
  the hero.

• An animal or human whose death in a public
  ceremony atones some sin that has been visited
  upon a community.

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The Star-Crossed Lovers

• Two characters engaged in a love affair that is
  fated to end tragically for one or both due to
  disapproval by society, friends, family, or some
  tragic situation.

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The Hunting Group of Companions

• These are loyal companions willing to face any
  number of perils in order to be together.

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Outcast

• A figure banished from a social group for some
  crime against his/her fellow man. The outcast is
  usually destined to become a wonderer from place
  to place.

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The Creatures of Nightmare

• A monster, usually summoned from the deepest,
  darkest part of the human psyche to threaten the
  lives of the hero/heroine.

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The Friendly Beast

• This character shows that nature is on the side
  of the hero.

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The Friendly Beast

• This character shows that nature is on the side
  of the hero.

• Finding Nemo

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The Friendly Beast

• This character shows that nature is on the side
  of the hero.

• Finding Nemo
• Whale

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The Friendly Beast

• This character shows that nature is on the side
  of the hero.

• Finding Nemo
• Whale
• Delivers them to the coast

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The Friendly Beast

• This character shows that nature is on the side
  of the hero.

• Finding Nemo
• Whale
• Delivers them to the coast
• Pelican

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The Friendly Beast

• This character shows that nature is on the side
  of the hero.

• Finding Nemo
• Whale
• Delivers them to the coast
• Pelican
• Jump into my mouth

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The Apparently Evil FigureWith an Ultimately
Good Heart

• This is a redeemable devil figure saved by the
  nobility or love of the hero.

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The Woman Figure

• The Earth mother
• The Temptress
• The Platonic Ideal
• The Damsel in Distress

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The Earth mother

• This character offers spiritual and emotional
  nourishment to those whom she comes in contact.

The Platonic Ideal

• A source of inspiration and a spiritual ideal,
  for whom the protagonist has an intellectual
  rather than physical attraction.

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The Temptress

• Sensuous beauty to whom the hero is attracted and
  who ultimately brings about his downfall.

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The Damsel in Distress

• The vulnerable woman who must be rescued by the
  hero

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Symbolic Archetypes
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Light/ Darkness

• Light usually suggest hope, renewal, or
  knowledge.
• Darkness implies the unknown, ignorance or
  despair.

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Water/ Desert

• Water suggests birth, resurrection, purification,
  fertility, and growth.
• Desert implies death, hopelessness, and spiritual
  emptiness.

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Death/ Rebirth

• Death represents evening, winter, and old age.
• Rebirth suggests morning, springtime and youth.
• Parallels the cycle of nature and cycle of
  life.

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