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    The Tragedy Archetype: The Rebirth Within Prim Lerthirunvibul Y10D (Blue) The seven archetypes is a theory in which there are seven ways of story-telling namely Quest‚ Voyage and Return‚ Rebirth‚ Comedy‚ Overcoming the Monster‚ Rags to Riches and Tragedy. The Tragedy archetype is one of the seven archetypes used in story-telling mentioned by Christopher Booker in The Seven Basic Plots. This archetype is known to expect a specific reaction from the readers often using grief‚ destruction and death

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    life. Kerouac’s novel follows the jazz and the energy of the time. The book tells the story of four cross-country journeys of two friends‚ Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty‚ the fictional alter-egos of Kerouac and iconic Beat writer Neil Cassady. Five archetypes that analyze Jack Kerouac’s On the Road are the

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    Motivation In Beowulf

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    words that Beowulf speaks in the epic poem that bears his name. Beowulf tells a tale of his feats- he is a superhero of sorts - and about the principles on which he stands. Beowulf is an oral poem‚ and as such‚ has many theories about its origin‚ but no one is truly certain of its author. The words he speaks are significant in the way that the first thing he identifies with is his ethnicity. Beowulf is motivated by several different things: duty‚ glory‚ and sacrifice. The code Beowulf lives by in

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    ” by William Faulkner by showing that both stories have similar archetypes embedded within their narratives. By definition and according to our text‚ archetypes are “characters‚ images and themes that symbolically embody meanings and experiences‚” (2059‚ Meyer). In both of these stories‚ I see that the main characters are involved in a quest for feminine self-discovery and freedom of the human spirit. In Joseph Campbell’s‚ “The Hero with a Thousand Faces‚” the author discusses the journey we are

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    Archetypes‚ as defined by the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung‚ are the “contents of the collective unconscious”. Similar to motifs‚ archetypes are the “deposits of the constantly repeated experiences of humanity”; they are universally understood symbols and patterns that have occurred and continue to occur in art and literature. In The Hunger Games‚ there are several key archetypal characters and situations. The archetype of the hero or heroine in the story is Katniss‚ a brave sixteen-year

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    Hoard-Guardian Beowulf is an epic poem written by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon. In Beowulf the dragon is a very powerful character because he can represent both good and evil. It depends on the perspective you look at him in. He ’s either standing for his culture and his dead race‚ or terrifying all the Geat people. The dragon represents protection‚ fierce‚ anger‚ fire‚ and past culture. Whenever the dragon appears in Beowulf‚ it stands for terror‚ anger‚ fear‚ and culture of his people. In Beowulf‚ the dragon

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    The Crucible Archetypes

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    factors are archetypal of the classical tragedies‚ first made popular by notable Sophocles‚ Euripides‚ and Aeschylus. Arthur Miller adopts this structure in his play‚ The Crucible: a tragedy‚ in which John Proctor is the epitome of an Aristotelian tragic hero. The Crucible is presented in a superstitious village‚ located in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1692. The time frame is compressed‚ and the action a fast pace. There is thus an unifying

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    Archetypes in Literature EECE 441 Prof. Sibley Definition of Archetype: “A universally recognizable element . . . that recurs across all literature and life (Latrobe 13). Psychologist Carl Jung called these elements a kind of “collective unconscious” of the human race‚ prototypes rather than something gained from experience. The word is derived from the Greek: arche‚ original‚ and typos‚ form or model; thus‚ original model (Latrobe 13). An archetype is the first real example or prototype

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    In the world‚ Archetypes are found in all sorts of fiction. Archetypes are patterns in characters that have been seen throughout books or movies. Characters who fall under certain archetypes follow the same pattern that many other follows. In the movie‚ The Lion King‚ most characters can fall under one of these archetypes. Scar represents the shape shifter or the villain‚ the hyenas represent the tricksters‚ and Timon and Pumbaa can represent the jesters. The archetype that each character falls under

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    Jane Chance’s critical essay on Beowulf gives the reader an in depth view of women roles and views from another angle. A lot of critical essays pertaining to Beowulf focus more on the man or men and Christian symbolic meaning. Chance gives us another side to Beowulf through the view of the women. She sees Wealtheow as the strength of the community as well as a peace keeper. At this time the women were supposed to be seen as a peace maker or an initiator of cultural rituals such as passing the cup

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