Archetypes Project

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFVG4VfPmg In this scene of The Little Mermaid, viewers can see that Ursula is the villain as she is wearing black, a color symbolizing evil. She is ‘The Devil Figure’ as she is offering to make Ariel human to help get Eric in exchange for Ariel’s voice. In order to get her voice back and to permanently stay human with Eric, Ariel receives ‘The Task’, which is to get a kiss of true love from Eric before the sun sets on the third day. Ariel also has her ‘Friendly Beasts’, Sebastian and Flounder, who helped her swim up to the surface and later help her attempt to achieve her task. Knowing that Ariel is from the water and Eric is from land, we see ‘The Star-Crossed Lovers’ as fish don’t belong out of water. Her given feet would be symbolic of her freedom. Themes in this scene would be deception and power as Ursula does not actually want Ariel to achieve her task. Ursula’s original plan is to take Ariel in order to get to King Triton
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2p1ee211C0 (23:00-32:30)
.In this scene, we have ‘The Damsel in Distress’, Snow White, where she was aggressively taken away from her prince and now she goes on ‘The Quest’ to find him. We have the ‘Friendly Beasts’ who guided Snow White to seek help from Mother Nature and then we have ‘The Earth Mother’, Mother Nature, helping her garden grow. Themes in this scene would be ‘Hope vs Hopelessness’ as Snow White lost hope thinking she’ll never be back with her prince again and then regained hope meeting the dwarvettes.
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iieJoCOTWV0 (1:00:00-1:08:42) In this scene of Thumbelina, we have the archetype ‘Light vs Darkness’, where Thumbelina wants to go back to summer or back on Earth. It is now winter, where everything is dead, dark and sad, and also the mole lives underground and she’s in despair from having to marry him and end up living underground forever. Thumbelina is ‘The Damsel in Distress’ as she is being forced to marry the