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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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    The most blatant use of sight‚ light‚ and darkness is the meeting of the oracle and Oedipus. While Oedipus could see the world‚ the oracle could see the truth‚ and the contrapositive is also true. When he gains sight of the truth‚ he takes his sight of the world. Without voiding my essay topic‚ Oedipus seemed like a nice enough guy until something happened that he did not like. An old man had a bit of road rage? The obvious response is to go on a murderous rampage. His character as a whole is a comparison

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    Archetypes essay

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    Archetypes are recurring events or ideas that happened in books and movies. Like hero vs. villain‚ conflict between the hero and his family‚ and how the hero is always triumphant and the villain always is really dark. Archetypes are important parts of culture and tradition because many legends‚ myths‚ and stories follow these ideas and events. The recurring events are shown through many stories such as The Three Little Pigs‚ The Fenris Wolf‚ and The Legend of Gloosgap. All these stories have some

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    Hero Archetype

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    Professor Jones Table of Contents • Introduction • Main Character • The Villain • Archetypes • Steps taken by the hero • Mythological origins • Mythological symbolism • Conflicts between personal desires and community responsibility • Conclusion Introduction *The portrayal of a hero archetype has been a part of society and can be traced back to ancient times and the earliest of myths. The hero is the integral archetype in the collective unconscious of whichever culture the story is based. Heroes become

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    Creon: A Tragic Hero

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    the downfall of a tragic hero‚ a person of nobility or higher standing. In Sophocles’ play‚ Antigone‚ Creon is the tragic hero because he is a strong man who is loyal to his city‚ but his stubborn pride gets in the way of him ruling his country‚ protecting his family‚ and staying true to the Greek values. Creon is the king of Thebes. He became the king because his sister‚ Iocaste‚ married the king and after many deaths in the royal family; the kingdom ended up in Creon’s hands. All these deaths were

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    The Archetype of Lilith

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    Nick Concklin November 29‚ 2007 ENGS 25: World Literature Research Paper The Archetype of Lilith The question “Who is Lilith?” has no one answer. Lilith is a demon temptress of the night . Lilith is the first wife of Adam‚ the first man according to Abrahamic tradition. Lilith is an archetype for independent‚ obstinate women . She is present in the mythological folklore of almost every Middle-Eastern and European culture to have developed since she first appeared in Sumerian mythology.

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    Nora and Oedipus

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    adding major personal flaws each author illustrates their character as a tragic hero. By exemplifying the flaws of each character Sophocles and Isben create characters that seem detached‚ yet somehow relatable. In each play‚ “A Doll’s House” and “Oedipus the King”‚ the authors detach the characters by time or situation. Another way the authors do this is by adding a point where the readers begin to feel pity for the characters due to their personal dilemmas. Although separated by time‚ the plays share

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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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