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    The Crucible Archetypes

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    Aristotle states that "The change in a hero’s fortunes be not from misery to happiness‚ but...from happiness to misery‚ and the cause...must not lie in any depravity but in some great error on his part.” The unity of setting; fate (or determinism); a noble character‚ with the inevitability of human flaw - these 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

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    Strawberry Archetype

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    1. Glass-gem ornamental corn?! WHAT? Does this shit even exit? Is it worth the same price and does it even have the same taste as regular corn? Guess you’ll have to find out. 2. Penis-shaped fruit? Would you want to even try it out? 3. Citron-caviar looks like it has water droplets inside it. Pretty-cool‚ no? 4. Wild bananas can be so wild? With their large and hard seeds‚ they don’t seem like the usual bananas we get to eat. 5. Did one

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    Carl Jung Archetypes

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    to his ideology on the collective unconscious and archetypes. Archetypes can be defined as universal thoughts‚ symbols‚ or images having a large amount of emotion attached to them. While there are a variety of archetypes‚ there are four archetypes that Jung felt‚ played a significant role in the establishment of a balanced personality: the persona; animus/anima; shadow; and self. According to the Encyclopedia.com‚ "the“persona” is an archetype that develops over time as a result of the tendency

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    There are many different types of archetypes‚ but I am solely going to focus on one‚ mine. I am of the innocent archetype and I believe it is a very important part to who I am. The traits of an innocent archetype are blissful yet dark if you see it through my eyes. There’s fear of abandonment‚ desire to be loved‚ and the ability to control emotion when you need to. This has led me into a life that I am living now. When I was young and still to this day‚ when anyone I really care about tells me

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     These patterns that we develop are called archetypes. An archetype is defined as “a typical character‚ an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature” (Taylor 3). According to the psychologist Carl Jung‚ mankind possesses a “collective unconscious” that contains these archetypes and these are common to all of humanity. Archetypal

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    Hope In literature archetype is best defined as a typical character that represents a universal pattern. In general‚ archetype is a very typical example of a person or object. Archetype can be applied to literature because there can be many types of characters and settings that describe a person. Even symbolic archetypes play a role in literature. Hope is a major archetype that could be significant in a lot of stories. Through the stories and poems: “A Rose for Emily" ‚“What You Pawn I Will Redeem”

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    Gerbner And Archetypes

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    1. After watching the documentary‚ I believe Gerbner described the commercial media as the "storyteller" because a small group of "global conglomerates" control how a story is presented to the masses. These powerful companies control the narrative and use their power to force "creative" types to acquiesce to their vision. This is significant as Mr. Gerbner is describing a form of censorship behind the scenes at major companies which could be problematic as a select group of executives are deciding

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    The Metamorphosis Archetype Life is all about changes. Every single person goes through changes that are either positive and/or negative in their lives. Changes in life come for many reasons and the metamorphosis archetype give the tools for explaining these changes. In the story “Apollo and Daphne” a Greek myth translated by Rolfe Humphries‚ the reader can identify the changes that can be explained by the metamorphosis archetype. The metamorphosis archetype “is a ‘two-way street’;

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    Similar to most literary classics‚ William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies contains allusions to the Christian Bible and character archetypes that establish universal ideas. Golding’s story focuses on a group of British schoolboys who are stranded on an island and succumb to their innate savage tendencies. Literary analysts compare aspects of Lord of the Flies to the Christian Bible such as the setting‚ a lush island in the Pacific Ocean‚ to the Garden of Eden. Likewise‚ the characters in the novel

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    others. The dark is not only shown through real life humans‚ but also in imaginary literary characters and novels as well. In The Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses archetypes such as the hero‚ the quest‚ and loss of innocence to bring out one of the novel’s many themes‚ the idea of civilization versus savagery. The hero archetype throughout the novel represents Ralph‚ the protagonist and the leader. Ralph is chosen by Piggy to become the leader of the island and the boys. He does not necessarily

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