Perez Emily Chahede Archetypes of Edward Scissor Hands In the words of Carl Jung‚ a well-known psychologist‚ an archetype is “An innate tendency which molds and transforms the individual consciousness. A fact defined more through a drive than through specific inherited contents‚ images etc.; a matrix which influences the human behavior as well as his ideas and concepts on the ethical‚ moral religious and cultural levels”(Jung). This research paper provides different archetypes that are present in
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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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Odysseus was fated to go through the many trials and struggles that he has indured. Odysseus got the scar on his leg while on a trip to his grandfather’s estate where they went on a hunt. On the hunt‚ they came across "a great boar"(495) that charged at Odyssey‚ "gouging a deep strip of flesh"(510). Ultimitly‚ Odysseus "thrust and struck‚ stabbing the beast’s right shoulder"(513) and killing it. The story of his scar is also his coming of age story. Odysseus comes as a boy getting hugged by his grandmother
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Monday for the baby boy‚ and Friday for the girl. That’s no nursery rhyme but baby talk of the most dangerous kind. Doctors carrying out sex determination tests are using everyday language and symbols to divulge the gender of the baby to wealthy families. The results are shared mostly on emails‚ and are fuelling a business worth Rs 1‚500 crore. This is particularly worrying for a state like Maharashtra which loses 4.5 lakh girls every 10 years‚ 50‚000 every year and 148 every day. This and
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PSY 2110-10 March‚ 29‚ 2011 Female Magazines I read a magazine call “GL” which stands for girl’s life. It is focus on teens‚ and it is one of the popular teen magazines for female. Of course‚ the pop star “Justin Biber” was on the cover which caught my eyes. In the magazine‚ the question of today was “Are you cheating on your boyfriend?” wasn’t too proper for teen to start off. The advertisement weren’t bad; they were mostly movies‚ and clothing. The articles were somewhat positive and negative
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Female oppression Women have been exploited and faced oppression for ages. Until the 20. Century‚ societies had not been realized that situation or the opinions against women violence had not been spreaded enough. After the technological and intellectual development‚ many books have been written and movies have been made to increase awareness about the female oppression. I will analyze a movie and a book named Color Purple and Nora: A Doll’s house. Nora: A Doll’s house is one of the most
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The Iliad and the Odyssey The character I have chosen from The Iliad‚ "Book VI‚" is Hektor‚ leader of the Trojan army as being heroic. I read "Book VI" several times because I could sympathize with Hektor ’s choices and dilemma. Hektor will stop at nothing to help the Trojans fight the war against the Greeks and Achilleus‚ as the Greeks attempt to overtake Troy. Zeus promises Hektor divine help with a victory for the Trojans‚ but Hektor makes mistakes when he misjudges his own power and refuses
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Ellen Moers defines female gothic as the “work that women writers have done in the literary mode that‚ since the eighteenth century” (317). Gothic writings are fake fear; fear to stimulate what you might feel if this were actually to happen. But‚ gothic is not tragedy‚ tragedy is more terror and horror. Ellen Moers’ essay is about the evolution of different gothic writings and writers. As she states in her essay‚ “For Frankenstein is a birth myth‚ and one that was lodged in the novelist’s imagination
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away from her forever? It may be hard to understand this from ones point of view. Toni Morrison‚ in the novel Beloved‚ uses the character Beloved to function as a mythic archetype in the society to help the reader understand things and answer complex questions in the book‚ like Sethe’s actions and why she did what she did. Archetypes represent universal patterns of human nature. In Beloved‚ the character Beloved is the anima; she is a projection of the other characters’ desires. To Sethe‚ Beloved comes
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prevent or fix a problem. A journey is pointless if a person doesn’t learn anything new or doesn’t get affected by the experience. Journeys matter more than the destination when the journey transform the traveler more than the destination. In the odyssey‚ by homer‚ Odysseus leaves his home on Ithaca to go on a voyage to win the battle against troy. After 10 years of fighting Odysseus finally wins but now he has to get home which proves to be a challenge because Odysseus finds more hardships on the
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