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    worldwide and was awarded “Best Fiction Corine International Award” in 2002. It follows a story of a boy named Santiago who is following his personal legend. The Alchemist has many archetypal themes and symbols including wise old men‚ women‚ and the nature around him. Throughout this novel‚ Coelho uses archetypal men. The men he uses are the Alchemist‚ his father‚ and the King of Salem. Wise old men symbolize the ‘savior’‚ ‘redeemer’‚ and the ‘guru’. The first of the three wise men that Santiago

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    Thor as an Archetypal Hero

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    Thor: Marvel’s Archetypal Breadwinner The greatest stories of all time follow a formula. Along with these formulaic stories emerged characters that are similar in nature‚ and these characters became known as archetypes. There are many famous archetypes‚ but perhaps the most famous archetype is the hero. A hero is defined as a protagonist who goes on a quest or a journey to bring about greater good to the universe (Campbell). According to the great American mythologist Joseph Campbell‚ the hero

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    Arthur Archetypal Hero

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    In The Sword in the stone‚ the legend by Sir Thomas Malory‚ Arthur is a archetypal hero by pulling the magical sword out of the stone and giving the sword to his friend. When Arthur went back looking for sir Kay sword that had been missing after being just knighted and going to the tournament‚ Arthur stumbles upon a sword which is in a rock and he “strodes up to the sword and without troubling to read the inscription‚ Arthur tugged the sword free from the stone to give to Sir Kay.(Malory 646)”Knowing

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    Mythology P1 Archetypal Characters As humans we make mistakes‚ but the real power is learning from our mistakes. Often we can learn from others mistakes that way we don’t have to feel the pain ourselves to understand why we shouldn’t do something or be a certain way. Also we can learn from history and past mistakes that lead them into bad times and disputes. From literature we learn morals and lessons through the characters position. “We live with our archetypes‚ but can we live in them?”

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    Brutus: Archetypal Hero

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    Brutus: Rise of the Tragic Hero William Shakespeare‚ in his play‚ Julius Caesar‚ displays Brutus as the archetypal hero and uses the supporting characters as surrounding archetypes. He supports this by relating Brutus’s characteristics to the traditional hero’s personality‚ its history‚ and by creating connections between the evens surrounding and including Brutus to the heroic journey. Shakespeare’s purpose is to create dynamic and relatable characters in order for others to enjoy his play thoroughly

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    Beowulf Archetypal Hero

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    Ms. Hamscher AP Lit Pd. 2 11/12/12 Beowulf: The Man‚ the Legend‚ the Hero Beowulf is an epic poem whose earliest surviving copy was written in 1000 A.D. The story consists of three thousand one hundred and eighty two lines that follow the life of the title character. The original author of the epic poem is unknown mainly because it started as a verbal tale passed down orally through the ages. Finally someone wrote it down in a document now called the Nowell Codex. The epic tale is centered

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    Mythological Approach.

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    A story that contains these aspects would be "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this story‚ Goodman Brown has to take a spiritual journey on a walk through the forest. He encounters the Devil and he tempts Brown with all sorts of ways to ’leave the path.’ The exact opposite of the Devil is represented in Brown’s wife‚ Faith. Faith represents Brown’s faith in God. An excerpt that best represents the Mythological Approach to Criticism is as follows: "’Dearest heart‚’ whispered

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    Archetypal Hero Thesis The archetypal hero appears in all religions‚ mythologies and epics of the world in different forms and stories which distinct commonalities can be drawn between each. An archetype is a recurring pattern of character‚ images‚ situations or symbols found in mythology‚ religion‚ dreams and stories of all cultures that is an expression of the world’s personal and collective unconscious. By that‚ an archetype is an unlearned tendency to experience things in a certain way. Humans

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    Archetypal Hero Essay A hero is defied as a person who protects‚ defends‚ cares for other for he or she will do whatever is necessary no matter the circumstances. A hero is someone who has give his or her life to something bigger than oneself. A typical archetypal hero has unusual circumstances at birth‚ atonement with father‚ and companionship. Initially‚ In the movie “Tarzan‚” Tarzan was an infant when his parents escaped from their burning ship and became stranded in an African Jungle.

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    Archetypal Mothers Role

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    A mother’s role impacts the child’s life and plays a huge part in deciding what type of person the child grows up to. Many twentieth century children’s literature demonstrates archetypes‚ including the mother‚ and how this helps the characters to succeed and find happiness. Children seek for this maternal figure if it is not found in the birth mother‚ or is lacking completely‚ as it is a natural instinct that a child relies on upon entering this world. The role of the mother figures in the children’s

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