Character And Narrative Archetypes In The TV Show

Do you ever look far into a movie or TV series enough to know what the producers are actually showing or what point they want to get across? Many action television series show either the four personality archetypes, narrative archetypes, or Freud’s theory. Narrative archetypes are one’s that stick out to me the most because the archetype shows that there are many different characters throughout the TV series. The television show, Arrow, shows narrative archetypes with the hero, trickster and witch, and the wise old man.
The first literary archetype, the hero, is seen in the television show, Arrow, when Oliver Queen, the main character, does justice throughout Starling City many different times. Queen is referred to many times in the TV series as the man in the hood or Robin Hood because he wears a green hood and uses a bow and arrow to stop the
This TV series has multiple characters is the same category that fall under two different literary archetypes. These characters can also be known as the list of names in the book that Oliver’s father had given him. Some names that Oliver runs into on the list can be deceiving and hidden like the trickster, or they can be very dangerous like the witch. The tricksters through the series give Oliver Queen a lot to think about because they always come at him or his family out of nowhere and he has no clue who they are. Another literary archetype in this series that The List can fall under is the witch. The witch represents someone very dangerous, and the whole list of names in the book is very dangerous and powerful. They give Oliver a lot to worry about at times. Especially when they are trying to go after and kill him instead of him going after and killing them which he is used to. Although Oliver may struggle sometimes, he has someone who helps him and gives him input and personal thoughts on what he thinks Oliver should do and this someone is John