The Shadow: A Common Archetype In Film

The shadow is a common archetype in movies and in stories. The shadow reflects a deeper element of our psyche and is the dark side of the person. Everyone’s shadow is different, because not everyone is alike. So my shadow will be different from my sisters, and it is what we want crave to have, and is usually the evil in us. The anima archetype is the woman in men. Men have a certain secondary female sexual features to them, and men try to hide the feminist side of them.

In Avatar Colonel Miles Quaritch is the shadow figure to Jake. Colonel Miles is someone who just follows orders and doesn’t care about other lives besides him. He is a beast like man, and he thinks that violence is the answer to his problem. He doesn’t think about the natives