Archetypes In The Wild

I felt like tonight was going to be a great night to watch a movie with my family. I had reached for the silver remote on my maroon foot rest and held the red power button until I saw my tv gain a red glow at the bottom. When turned on, it was shown by the lower light that gleamed red. We wanted to watch an action packed movie so we decided to watch the very popular, thriller, “The Hunger Games”. The fear from the contestants in the forest of what was to come beyond gave me something to think about. As they would venture further off into the woods it was as if one sudden move would impact their entire life. The question that I repeated to ask myself was how can the forest be that scary in a way that you can’t even take a move without thinking
According to an article, “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” written by William Cronon, it states that the Wilderness/Forest archetype “Seen in this way, wilderness presents itself as the best antidote to our human selves, a refuge we must somehow recover if we hope to save the planet. As Henry David Thoreau once famously declared, “In Wildness is the preservation of the World”. As seen in the text the Wilderness/ Forest is seen as the antidote to our human lives. It provides peace and tranquility that not many other things can do.” When comparing that to the online definition, it states “Can be a wild place with dangers and beasts. It can also be a place to reconnect with nature.” There were two sides of how the forest/ jungle can be explained. During the earlier years I feel like the forest/ jungle was thought up as a peaceful and tranquil place to be. Although I feel like as time started to move forward people have started to move away from the peaceful and tranquil place in the words and started to think of the scary place with the
In the Jungle book movie, the main character Mowgli was in a situation where he was up against a snake. Now, if you don’t know snakes are very sneaky. In the movie, the giant snake was tricking Mowgli into getting close to him so the snake could eat him. The reason I bring this whole situation up is because in the forest/jungle it is a scary place. When you are in the Jungle or forest you never know what is going to come up. Since it is so mysterious anything could happen that will bring you up to surprise. The change in my archetype that is so drastic is how when it was a little older it was represented not as scary as today. When this archetype was represented 20 years ago then It would not have been that scary. The reason for that is because parents weren't as protective as they are