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    The Archetypes In Hamlet

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    character’s past? All of these characteristics fall into the category of the archetype‚ and in Hamlet‚ the archetypes of the hero‚ the villain‚ the outcast‚ and the father figure are all met. Simply put‚ an archetype is a stereotypical idea of a person or thing in literature or film‚ or something that is universally recognizable as a symbol. In Hamlet‚ a central archetype is the “hero‚” and Prince Hamlet is able to fit this archetype by fulfilling the criteria of having experienced a traumatic event in

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    Archetype Paper

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    Archetype Changes Archetypes help define who a person is‚ whether they are loving and caring‚ powerful like a sovereign‚ tricky like a wizard or jester‚ or hostile like a warrior or fighter. No one’s archetype stays the same throughout their entire life. At some point in everyone’s lives‚ their archetype changes due to the unpredictable changes in life. A piece of literature that establishes how characters can change from one archetype to another is the story “Sweat”‚ by Zara Neale Hurston. In the

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    Alchemist Archetypes

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    Alchemist Archetypes In the alchemist by Paul Coelho‚ he writes about a shepherd named Santiago. Santiago’s journey is written mainly through situation archetypes. Archetypes are used to categorize people and a situation in stories‚ poems‚ plays ect. The predominant archetypes are situational. The most distinguished archetypes in the alchemist are the initiation‚ the quest‚ death and rebirth‚ the journey‚ and supernatural intervention. The first archetype in the entire book is the initiation;

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    Archetypes In The Wild

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    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”

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    Blake Archetypes

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    Yin-Yang (Three messages from Blake’s Archetypes) With the Yin-yang symbol for people it has the thought of a lamb and a tiger. The Lamb has a gentle‚ innocent kind of outlook to it and the tiger has a fierce‚ outgoing look to it. They are completely different animals in every way but they complete each other because life has a perfect balance to it with both animals. In Blake’s archetypes they talk about how the lamb is for christianity and shows the goodness in people’s life. The tiger that Blake

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    Villain Archetypes

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    Both Ms. Strangeworth from “The Possibility of Evil” and Captain Torres from “Lather and Nothing Else” represent the villain archetype; however‚ Miss Strangeworth better represents it because she enjoys the evil she causes‚ whereas Captain Torres does not. First of all‚ the roles of the characters are shown as villains throughout both of the stories. In the case of Miss Strangeworth‚ it is when she sends her malicious messages to the town without regard for their feelings (Jackson 5). Meanwhile‚

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    Mulan Archetypes

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    In the movie Mulan‚ the character Mulan embodies a couple very significant archetypes. One major archetype she embodies is the hero. She is the hero of the movie because she saved china from being taken over. She first started to become a hero when she snuck out of her house the night before her farther was supposed to leave for war. She put on her fathers armor and left for war. The whole time she was in war she convinced the other soldiers that she was a man. When the Huns attacked china Mulan

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    Princess Archetype

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    pictured it when you were three. They are still the same but as you grow older you start to understand a princess for what they really are. The princess archetype is a vulnerable woman who needs to be rescued by the hero. She often beautiful and fair and is sometimes seen as the damsel in distressed. Many characteristics of the princess archetype in the poem by Nur Faiqaah Hamzah titled Damsel in distress: In the stillness of the night‚ /She prayed hard with all her might./She hoped for her salient

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    Archetypes In Psychology

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    way‚ a person from reality falls into one of these categories because of their beliefs or character. These categories are called archetypes‚ and mean “pattern‚ model‚ or type(Golden).” According to psychologist Carl Gustav Jung‚ there are twelve archetypes‚ sorted into three categories: Ego‚ Soul‚ and Self. Some people follow multiple‚ although there is mainly one archetype for each individual being. I think about problems mentally and thoroughly first. I utilize information as a way to find answers

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    Archetypes In The Road

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    people interested in the character and the changes the character goes through. This happens so often that it is becoming an archetype. This archetype has become more common in books‚ films and TV shows because it develops interest in the audience. Thus‚ apocalyptic fiction always includes a character archetype of the "good guy who needs to be bad". One depiction of this archetype is The Road‚ which is written by Cormac McCarthy. In the beginning of the novel‚ the Man and the Boy are introduced as

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