Archetypes In Avatar
Avatar Archetypes
Archetypes are one of the rare things in the world that speak a universal language. By using powerful archetypes in literature, an author can move a story forward and make it more comprehensible for the reader. The movie Avatar was written and directed by James Camryn in 2009 and is a prime example of powerful archetypes that propel a story forward. Avatar takes place in the futuristic world of 2154. Humans in Avatar are on a planet called Pandora where a strange species called Na'vi live. These creatures have human-like intelligence, however, the Omaticaya Na'vi tribe’s home is located right where a huge load of valuable metal called unobtanium can be found. The human’s mission on Pandora is to gain the valuable metal. …show more content…
In Avatar, the crossing of the threshold is the same in both the subplot and plot. After the humans lose the war and leave the planet, Jake makes the decision to transfer from his human body to his avatar form in order to become a true Na’vi. The Na’vi have made Jake sully truly understand nature and have made him realize that he will be truly happy if he becomes a Na’vi. In the beginning of the movie, the kernel promised Jacob that if he succeeded in his journey, the kernel would get jake proper legs and ironically, when jake becomes a true Na’vi, he gets the legs he was promised by the person who became his enemy. While Jake does not cross a physical threshold, he passes a mental threshold and becomes who he was really meant to be and is no longer the person he used to be (literally). Jake has changed his outlooks in life at this point and his priorities have now changed from his old life as he is now Na’vi. This threshold crossing moment makes it easy to understand the change that Jake has gone through throughout the story and is necessary to finish out the plot. The crossing of the threshold wraps up the story in order to give Jake his freedom to live and provides closure to the movie,
Archetypes are one of the rare things in the world that speak a universal language. By using powerful archetypes in literature, an author can move a story forward and make it more comprehensible for the reader. The movie Avatar was written and directed by James Camryn in 2009 and is a prime example of powerful archetypes that propel a story forward. Avatar takes place in the futuristic world of 2154. Humans in Avatar are on a planet called Pandora where a strange species called Na'vi live. These creatures have human-like intelligence, however, the Omaticaya Na'vi tribe’s home is located right where a huge load of valuable metal called unobtanium can be found. The human’s mission on Pandora is to gain the valuable metal. …show more content…
In Avatar, the crossing of the threshold is the same in both the subplot and plot. After the humans lose the war and leave the planet, Jake makes the decision to transfer from his human body to his avatar form in order to become a true Na’vi. The Na’vi have made Jake sully truly understand nature and have made him realize that he will be truly happy if he becomes a Na’vi. In the beginning of the movie, the kernel promised Jacob that if he succeeded in his journey, the kernel would get jake proper legs and ironically, when jake becomes a true Na’vi, he gets the legs he was promised by the person who became his enemy. While Jake does not cross a physical threshold, he passes a mental threshold and becomes who he was really meant to be and is no longer the person he used to be (literally). Jake has changed his outlooks in life at this point and his priorities have now changed from his old life as he is now Na’vi. This threshold crossing moment makes it easy to understand the change that Jake has gone through throughout the story and is necessary to finish out the plot. The crossing of the threshold wraps up the story in order to give Jake his freedom to live and provides closure to the movie,