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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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    The Innocence of Gertrude and Ophelia "Pretty Ophelia‚" as Claudius calls her‚ is the most innocent victim of Hamlet’s revenge in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Hamlet has fallen in love with Ophelia after the death of his father. Ophelia "sucked the honey of his music vows" and returned Hamlet’s affection. But when her father had challenged Hamlet’s true intentions‚ Ophelia could only say: "I do not know‚ my lord‚ what I should think." Ophelia was used to relying on her father’s directions

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    Hamlet: Ophelia and Gertrude Ophelia and Gertrude. Two different women who seem to be trapped in the same circumstances in relation to Hamlet. Gertrude‚ Hamlet’s mother and the Queen of Denmark. She is married to the present King‚ Claudius‚ who is suspected by Hamlet to have killed his father‚ King Hamlet‚ who also happens to be Claudius’s brother. Gerturde has somehow ended up in the plot of King Hamlet’s death and in the eyes of her son‚ seems to be a monster and an aide to an adulterating

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    Hamlet’s conversation with Ophelia illustrates his complicated attitude toward someone he used to love. The exchange highlights the influence of his struggle concept of honesty and human nature. These two factors impact Hamlet’s attitude toward Ophelia‚ altering feelings of love into those of uncertainty. Hamlet’s language in the conversation with Ophelia reflects the mistrust and betrayal he feels after discovering Claudius murdered his father. This finding opens his eyes to man’s tendency to

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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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    Hamlet‚ increases Hamlets sad needs. Hamlet therefore losses Ophelia‚ due to the fact that Ophelia has an attraction for men with power with she finds within his brother and father. Once Hamlet sees his Father ghost and reveals the cause of his death; Hamlet goes crazy‚ wanting to take revenge by killing his uncle. Act 2: Hamlet acts crazy to make his wish to kill Claudius justifiable. Polonius begins to believe the separation of Ophelia from Hamlet fuels the madness. The whole act is based on 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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    gone insane. One of the many matters Hamlet sacrificed was Ophelia. Without a doubt‚ Hamlet truly loved Ophelia. But in the midst of his act‚ Ophelia believed the true Hamlet came to be overpowered by madness. When Ophelia returned Hamlet’s love letters‚ he could have easily explained his act of insanity. However‚ he knew that he could not tell her as much as he desired her. This goes to reinforce that as much as Hamlet adored Ophelia‚ this became another thing he rejected for the sake of King Hamlet

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