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    species have rooted in our minds. These universal images are called archetypes‚ and they vary from the image of fire to the image of motherhood. Three stories in particular this year have reflected to a great extent Jung’s proposed archetypes. These are the Bible’s story of Moses‚ Ernest Gaines’ A lesson Before Dying‚ and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. All three of these stories present to the reader many archetypes; however‚ the archetype of rebirth is the most impertinent in the Bible’s story of Moses

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    Thermopylae‚ Greece. We will examine 6 types of Archetypes‚ the Hero‚ the Old and Wise Guide‚ the Long Journey‚ the Evil Tempter‚ The Amazon‚ and the Triumph and Return Home. In the ancient battle of Thermopylae‚ King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing overwhelming odds‚ their bravery and sacrifice inspired all of Greece to bond against the Persian enemy. Our first archetype is the hero‚ King Leonidas. He and the citizens of

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    Detective Archetype Essay Sherlock Holmes and the Doctor share qualities such as higher intelligence‚ isolation from society‚ and hyperactivity that shape them into the only ones capable of providing justice for the threatened. The two fit the detective archetype quite well and whether explicit or not‚ the archetype is prevalent in their stories as well as others. Qualities of the detective archetype are represented through each “detective’s” habits‚ actions‚ words‚ thoughts‚ and choices

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    Eternal Feminism in Faust Goethe concludes his famous literary work Faust by exalting the “eternal feminine.” However‚ Goethe does not present us with a clear meaning of this term. I believe Goethe is saying that man’s struggle for knowledge and enlightenment can only be fully achieved when he recognizes and accepts that his soul is androgynous. The soul has a feminine component or counterpart which must be utilized so that he may be optimally guided in such a way as to acquire maximum spiritual

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    Deliverance Human beings are nothing short of complex. Whether that be in the way we think or the way we act. Carl Jung was a famous psychiatrist that came up with a theory about the human mind. His theory in short says that we all have a collective unconscious were which all our primal instincts derived from our ancestors is stored. Along with the collective unconscious Jung says that we all have a shadow which encompasses our true selves. We all also have a persona that which is a mask that society

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    Characte archetype - hero Rapunzel overcome many hardships to finally find love and her parents. Character archetype -the villain Gothel is the women who posed as the mother of Rapunzel. She wanted that Rapunzel not the leave her home. Symbolic archetype - Rapunzel’s hair: Rapunzel have a magic hair that glows when she sings‚ it can also heal wounds and manages to achieve eternal youth to whoever touches. Situation archetype - Task Rapunzel’s task is to find the way out of the

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    the paradigmatic shifts of its context. Contemporaries like Angela Carter‚ reinforcing or challenging societal values or constructs‚ subvert fairytale archetypes to educate on social progression; through literary discourses such as post-modernism and feminism. In Carter’s ‘The Company of Wolves’ (1979) the blurring of the wolf or hunter archetype exemplifies the modernisation of the classic fairytale‚ ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Carter subverts traditional and polarising notions of good versus evil

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    During my time reading to children at Jefferson Elementary school‚ I observed how a child’s knowledge of archetypes alters their perceptions of the particular book they are reading. I read the children’s book Are You My Mother by P. D. Eastman‚ and I witnessed three examples of how archetypes might have affected their view of the story: the caregiver role‚ the gender roles‚ and the hero and villain role. I read to two girls and right away I could tell that they were aware of what a mother should

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    Dwayne D. Moore Jr. Women In Visual Culture AD307I Angela Reinoehl Visual/Formal Analysis The Liberation of Aunt Jemima by Betye Saar When we look at this piece‚ we tend to see the differences in ways a subject can be organized and displayed. This assemblage by Betye Saar shows us how using different pieces of medium can bring about the wholeness of the point of view in which the artist is trying to portray. So in part‚ this piece speaks about stereotyping and how it is seen through the

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain utilizes the archetypes of the Unwilling Hero‚ the Shape Shifter‚ and Haven vs. Wilderness to show that Huck Finn and Jim can find freedom all along the banks of the Mississippi River.  Huck portrays the unwilling hero because he puts a lot of thought into something before he does it‚ even though it will benefit everybody.  He is also very hesitant to perform heroic acts.  The King and Duke show the archetype of the shape shifter because they are constantly lying

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