In the poem "The Road Not Taken"‚ author Robert Frost uses the simple image of a road to represent a person’s journey through life. A well-established poet‚ Frost does a proficient job of transforming a seemingly common road to one of great importance‚ which along the way helps one identify who they really are. This poem is one of self-discovery. Frost incorporates strong elements of poetry such as theme‚ symbolism‚ rhyme scheme‚ diction‚ imagery‚ and tone to help create one of his most well known
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As a child‚ love and acceptance were the aspects that I cherished the most hence my strongest archetype being Innocent. My characteristics are very similar to the description of the innocent as I am a person that puts a lot of thought into friendship and believes everything will turn out the way I want it to. Throughout my childhood‚ my parents have been the mother and father figure that raised me up so that I take other people into consideration and bond with everyone with love and compassion. Love
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The shadow is a common archetype in movies and in stories. The shadow reflects a deeper element of our psyche and is the dark side of the person. Everyone’s shadow is different‚ because not everyone is alike. So my shadow will be different from my sisters‚ and it is what we want crave to have‚ and is usually the evil in us. The anima archetype is the woman in men. Men have a certain secondary female sexual features to them‚ and men try to hide the feminist side of them. In Avatar Colonel Miles
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In order to demonstrate the conflict at the community level‚ I used the system archetype of Vicious Cycle. Stroh explains that Virtuous/Vicious Cycles are “amplification and reinforcement”‚ “a reinforcing process producing success or disaster” (Stroh‚ 2015‚ pg. 67). “The terms virtuous circle and vicious circle (also referred to as virtuous cycle and vicious cycle) refer to a complex chain of events which reinforce themselves through a feedback loop” (Wikipedia‚ 2016‚ paragraph 1). The
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The Choice that I have to Live With Is this the right road to take? Each road we take is a personal decision‚ a decision we will have to live with for the rest of our lives. There are many choices in life that have to be made on a personal basis‚ there is only one person that can make those choices‚ and that person is the one who has to look at themselves in the mirror daily. “If you don’t make each decision carefully‚ you never know where you’ll end up. That’s an important lesson we should learn
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the creation of the earth. And these two Adams are representative of two aspects of the human character. Adam I and Adam II are each archetypes that teach a lesson to the readers of Genesis‚ which‚ according to Soloveitchik‚ is why they are both included in the Bible. Carrying Soloveitchik’s approach to reading Genesis to the rest of the book and applying his Archetype theory to other characters in the scripture yields a very interesting take on the stories of the Bible. For example‚ if one
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Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” In the first stanza‚ Frost is telling of how he sees two roads‚ but he cannot possibly take both. The first road he looks at can only be seen as far as a near curve with undergrowth. The second road he sees has a grassy path and “want[s] wear.” In the third stanza Frost debates which path to take and decides to leave the first road for another day‚ if he decides to ever come back. The fourth and final stanza of the poem tells how Frost is telling the tale with
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literature assumes that there is a collection of symbols‚ images‚ characters‚ and motifs that evokes basically the same response in all people. According to the psychologist Carl Jung‚ mankind possesses a "collective unconscious" that contains these archetypes and that is common to all of humanity. When an author uses the archetypal approach‚ he selects a universal theme through which to tell his story. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradise” uses the dynamics of the mother-son relationship throughout
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English Essay: The Road Not Taken How does the poet use structural and language features to explore a concept of a journey? The poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ is about choices and the impact that our choices have on our life’s journey and ultimately how these choices have shaped our being. The poem is a metaphor‚ used to represent the concept of a journey. There are a variety of language techniques that Robert Frost has conveyed his message through. Firstly‚ the poem is easy to understand so that
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“The Road Not Taken” Analysis I think that in “The Road Not Taken”‚ Robert Frost uses the fork in the road to represent humanity’s choices. We will always have to choose in our life and we will always eventually meet a fork in the road. In this circumstance the author is stuck with two choices. “Then took the other‚ as just as fair‚ / And perhaps having the better claim” (Frost 6-7). This path represents the “easy way out” because it was given the “better claim.” Then in stanza 4 he says‚ “I shall
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