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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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    comes from the Greek word arche (beginning) and typos (imprint). But as linguistically‚ the term arch is an adjective means literally “chief” or “principal” and prefix types that can be meant “highest” or “important.” Walker (2002:17) argued that archetypes are unconscious principles to returning images‚ symbols‚ or patterns. Thus statement can be explained that an author when make a literary work sometime inserting implicit meaning that keep in symbols‚ patterns‚ or images. Archetypal criticism tries

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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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    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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    Angela I. Hyse Valerie Doner English IV Honors 4 October 2012 Archetype Essay Courageous feats against evil‚ self-sacrificial acts for justice‚ and invincible God-given stamina which happens to accompany a chiseled robust frame that contours the perfect shadow in any light devises a common image. This recurring concept of the undaunted hero is archetypal; these symbols represent things that have been experienced throughout human existence. They are continuously used by writers and artists‚

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    of the hero is the most common and well known myth in the world" (p. 101). Myth in this sense refers to the story of the hero – from his humble beginnings to his journey and finally his ascension to hero. Henderson acknowledges that the hero archetype or schema has existed in cultures spanning the globe since history began. He contends‚ "these hero myths vary enormously in detail‚ but the more one closely examines them the more one sees they are structurally very similar. They have... a universal

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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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    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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