...All movies, books and even plays regarding heroic figures use the same archetypes for their characters. An archetype signifies a symbol which connects to literature, art, and real life. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the plot revolves around a group of stranded boys on an island that witness changes in themselves. Throughout the story, each character has an archetypal symbol that connects to a hero’s journey. These archetypes represent the guideline that allows the story to be read through the archetypal literary lens. In literature, the archetypal literary lens allows the reader to read a story by recognizing symbols, character types, and motifs. With this in mind, Golding uses Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack to display the various...
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...Every hero embarks on a journey of notable trials and distinguishable tribulations. Every journey contains its plethora of characters and people met along the way. Each character differently contributes to the progression of the hero’s journey. However, despite the various alternate names, places, objects, amongst an abundance of other features of a journey, or the magnitude of the conflict in the journey, every journey and character innately reflect a small piece of the collective template that Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero's Journey,” or in some cases, “The 17-Stage Monomyth,” accurately precedes. The Hero’s Journey, according to Campbell’s work in The Hero of a Thousand Faces, is the predominant “nuclear unit”(Campbell 23) of all narratives...
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...Jaskaran Chaniana Type of Resource / Call #|Resource Data|Your Notes| Website|Web Site____________Changing Minds__________Author______________David Straker__ _______URL_http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/hero_journey/hero_journey.htm______ __Title____Campbell's 'Heros' Journey Monomyth _ Last Updated_____________N/A_______________|· Joseph Campbell defined a series of events, known as the monomyth, which model most stories: Separation/Departure, Initiation, Return. · Each of these three phases can be further broken down into sub-sections that better define what happens· Separation/Departure is in the beginning of the story; separates protagonist from his normal world and has the protagonist enter "the belly of the whale"· Initiation is the heart of the story transitioning the protagonist into the qualities of a hero through "tough times"· Return is the concluding of the story; the hero returns triumphant from completing the Initiation phase· Keep in mind, the monomyth is simply a guideline, not a requirement for writers| Website|Web Site___ Wise GEEK________________Author_____________Nicole Etolen_______________URL_http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-archetypal-patterns.htm _Title_____What Are Archetypal Patterns? _ Last Updated_______July 25, 2015___________ __ _|· Archetypal Patterns are essentially a typical way of doing...
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...and a decisive victory is won" (Campbell 1). It is in this storyline that most storytellers need to go by in order to create the most closely related idea of a hero. Even though some heros do not follow these stages and their journey becomes more complex in relation to society, Shakespeare’s character Hamlet, seems to be the most hard to understand. Shakespeare created Hamlet as a hero who corrupts the archetype so much that the basic stages of his heroic journey must be changed in order to recognize him as a hero. Aristotle defined a hero as “a man with outstanding quality and greatness about him. His own destruction is for a greater cause or principle”. Aristotle simply states that the hero's downfall is usually cause by his own fault. Usually the hero’s death is seen as a waste of human potential but usually results in greater knowledge and awareness for whoever hears of the hero’s story (Aristotle). In most traditions of the hero archetype, the journey of the hero follows a path that can be split up into three different sections. The departure, initiation and return. Journalist and writer, Rob Thorp writes about these stages and how they can apply to Shakespeare. Within these three stages or acts, there are multiple sub-stages (Thorp). Hamlet’s journey doesn’t follow all...
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...com/2009/10/quick-overview-heros-journey/Title______A Quick Overview of the Hero's Journey _____Last Updated________October 5, 2009 __________|- There are 12 stages of the hero's journey - The stages include; the ordinary world, the call to adventure, refusal of call, meeting with the mentor, crossing the threshold, tests allies and enemies, approach, the ordeal, the reward, the road back, the resurrection, and the return with the elixir. - The hero's journey is the work of Carl Jung, but applied by Joseph Campbell. - In the ordinary world, we meet the hero. The call to adventure is when the hero is needed for something. Refusal to the call is when the hero usually refuses to accept the call to adventure. Meeting the mentor is when the hero meets someone who helps him out and gives advice. Crossing the first threshold is when the hero leaves his regular life and takes on something else. Test, allies, and enemies is when the hero adjusts to the new world. Approach is like a preparation for the final test. The ordeal is similar to the climax. The reward is when it all pays off. The road back is when the hero returns to their regular life. Resurrection is when the hero realizes they have changed. Lastly, return to the elixir is when the hero receives their rewards/punishments. | Website - Article|Web Site____Journey to the Sea________________Author____Priscilla Hobbs___________________URL http://journeytothesea.com/campbell-hero/Title Joseph Campbell: The Hero's Journey Last Updated_______November...
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...Based on the steps provided according to Ross, Alice (Alice in Wonderland) does complete a hero’s journey. “It leads to the heroine in the direction of personal growth and control over her surroundings. Alice learns how to manage her size. How to talk back to a queen and, finally how to wear a crown of adulthood” (Ross, 2004). In other words, Alice goes on an adventure that helps her transform into a new person and by the end of the adventure she is rewarded. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice’s ordinary world that is seen in the end of the film is her in her backyard just having a tea party with her sister. Alice’s call to adventure is when she sees the Rabbit and follows him down the Rabbit hole. Alice’s refusal to call was when she started eating the foods not realizing she is not...
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...Archetypes in Die Linkshändige Frau Throughout history, humans have tried to explain the phenomena of this world. Whether through pure imagination or actual quantified observation, various explanations of why we are here, why things happen to us and where punishments and blessings are written in a culture’s story. Many of these explanations have passed into myths and legends, stored forever in the heroic epics of lore. They follow similar patterns that reverberate throughout the ages and across cultures. These archetypes help us to reflect on our own experience and sojourn here on Earth. As Erich Fromm stated: “Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” In his chapter on Mythic and Archetypal Criticism, Bruce W. Young explains how Carl Jung had a similar idea. Paraphrased, Jung believed that archetypes, or patterns in myths and legend, have distinctive character, something akin to a primordial figure. He postulates that as we study these archetypes or myths, “it is as though chords in us were struck” and we “feel a sense of realease” (Cowles 64). In short, Jung believes that myths help us resolve issues in our own life by experiencing the dreams, aspirations and answers found in myths. Humanity as a whole has similar dreams, aspirations, experiences...
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...a brief look at what the archetype means culturally and psychologically. The 1990s and the new millennium saw an influx of female action heroes on television from Xena to Scully, Buffy to Sidney Bristow. Countless girls and boys eagerly jumped to their television set each evening to absorb the warrior energy of their new role models. Adults, too, were intrigued by the possibility of a new gender role for women – fighters. These women were not only stereotypically beautiful characters, but, untypically, they were also highly intellectual, courageous and strong – stronger indeed than the men portrayed alongside them, if not their equals. These fighting women usually depended on themselves for rescue and did not always wait around for their men. Some women warriors had martial arts expertise (Xena, Buffy, Sidney, Nikita), some wielded weapons (Dana Scully from The X Files, Samantha Carter from Stargate SG1), while others used magic (Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the three sisters in Charmed), and then there was the cyborg (Seven of Nine from Voyager and Max from Dark Angel). All nevertheless embodied the warrior archetype: a fighting spirit evoking a new female consciousness, one that reflected a shift of values in Western society's gender norms. C. G. Jung Research Online books, journals for academic research, plus bibliography tools. www.Questia.com/C._G._Jung Jungian Philosophy Analytical psychology poses the theory of archetypes or 'instinctual patterns'...
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...In both the Odyssey, by Homer, and The Epic of Gilgamesh, created by the Sumerians, both were stories created a long time ago made for folklore or to explain what has happened in a certain time in history. Both stories contain myths, unimaginable acts, and just the idea of immortality is present in both stories. The historic novels both have their own twists to the stories as well as some similarities in the story. In both stories, the Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh, there are similar character archetypes, villains, plot, and the hero’s journey. Although in the Odyssey, most of the villains turned out to be allies, whereas in the Epic of Gilgamesh, they stayed enemies and didn’t switch over to his side. The Hero’s Journey in both stories...
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...The stories of Theseus and Beowulf both share the common archetype of a quest which the hero needs to complete and the hero also engages in an ordeal which is a natural step within their journey. Beowulf was summoned by Hrothgar to find and slay the beast by the name of Grendel who “found sleeping the troop of warriors, and bore away in his foul hands thirty of the honored thanes” (Rabb 1). Hrothgar gave Beowulf the quest to kill Grendel to prevent him from taking more lives. The quest is a common archetype in mythical tales because it is used to set up the hero’s journey by providing an overall reason for the hero to embark on a dangerous adventure. Similarly, Theseus chose to engage in a quest to kill the minotaur which was used to devour...
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...Harry Potter the Hero’s Journey Lucas Damron Block 3 In the first Harry Potter, our young friend is put to the ultimate hero’s journey through a series of courageous events that shape him into the perfect archetypal hero. Harry Potter thinks himself, in his dull, muggle( non-magical ) household, to just be a burdened orphan child to his impudent aunt and uncle. Little does Harry know of his importance and great idolism in the magical world, a role he will soon find out. Harry’s “Call to Adventure” forms when a giant named Hagrid, bust through his door and declares that Harry must come to a magical school where he will learn sorcery and become a great wizard. Harry’s treacherous aunt and uncle claim that Harry will not be brought about in magic and refuse to allow Harry to go, but this giant having little threat by these small muggles pays no attention and leaves the choice up to Harry; when he accepts he “Crosses the Threshold” into his adventure. Hagrid then takes Harry to the magical world where Harry learns his true importance and symbolism, to all the witches and wizards. When Harry descends to Hogwarts,(magical school) he learns of his known enemy, he who must not be named, Voldermort, who wiped out Harry’s parents years ago. He is destined to destroy this evil monster of a man. At first Harry makes friends with two characters, who will make a bond bigger than blood. When first arriving at Hogwarts he awaits his first test, a troll has escaped the dungeon...
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...by changing the events, Hero Archetypes, and themes. Have you ever wonder how Roman stories are like today and how they are made modern to meet your expectations? Events are one of the main thing modernized from ¨The legend of Perseus¨ to Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief. The events are modernized through the Hero’s Journey because in “The legend of Perseus” Perseus never meet the mentor and instead journeyed on his own “Perseus bid his mother good-by and set out to search for Medusa” (D'aulaires,117) unlike Percy Jackson who had several mentors Grover, Poseidon, and Chiron (Percy Jackson...
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...know more about the characters and plots of films more than they know about world events. What makes a cinematic movie a huge cultural phenomenon? Why are the characters and plots so intriguing that people spend money to see them time after time? There is not much of a difference between the generalized synopses of movies, which stem from common stories. These common stories are known as myths. In the Signs of Life in the USA anthology, Linda Seger explains in her article “Creating the Myth”, myths are stories of a protagonist character, who is the hero that goes on a journey to seek a solution to an issue. From one culture to the next, these stories are universally known within different contexts. In the modern American culture, heroes define the action movie genre. The 2010 version of the film, Clash of the Titans reiterates a well-known Greek character, Perseus. Perseus, who is half man-half god, goes on a hero’s quest to save humanity and the heavenly Gods from the evilness of Hades and his Underworld minions. The structure of this movie creates a connection between the viewer and the hero through the phases of the mythical and archetypal characters and this allows for a successful cinematic experience. The hero myth according to Seger shows a change within a hero through the process of phases. The starting phase is seeing the hero as an ordinary being, much like us. By seeing him or her this way we can relate to the world that they are starting in. In the beginning of Clash...
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...and Achilles played an important role in Ancient Greek religion. Politicians, ancient and modern, have employed hero worship for their own apotheosis (i.e., cult of personality). Stories of the antihero also play a major role in Greek mythology and much of literature. The antihero is a protagonist who lacks the typical characteristics of heroism, such as honor, nobility, bravery, compassion, and fortitude. The favorite type of antihero is an individual who lacks moral character.[2] The concept of a story archetype of the standard "hero's quest" ormonomyth pervasive across all cultures is somewhat controversial. Expounded mainly by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (published in 1949), it illustrates several uniting themes of hero stories that hold similar ideas of what a hero represents, despite vastly different cultures and beliefs. The monomyth or Hero's Journey consists of three separate stages including the Departure, Initiation, and Return. Within these stages there are several archetypes that the hero or heroine may follow including the call to adventure (which they may initially refuse), supernatural aid, proceeding down a road of trials, achieving a realization about...
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...Fifth Business: More Than Meets The Eye Jeffery Soy Carl Jung’s literary archetypes determine the structure of literary works. In the novel Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies, many of Jung’s archetypes are reflected in the characters. These archetypes include the Eternal Boy, the Wise Old Man, the Hero, the Maiden, and the Persona. The characters of Boy Staunton, Dunny Ramsay, Paul Dempster, Mary Dempster, and Leola Cruikshank symbolize these archetypes and support the overall theme of appearance versus reality in Fifth Business. Upon analyzing Carl Jung’s archetypes, one would find that Boy is the most obvious example of the Eternal Boy archetype. Over the course of the novel, Boy grows physically, but he acts very childish. He constantly denies throwing the snowball that struck Mary Dempster. He tries to prove to Dunny that he is better than him in every way. As kids, he ridiculed Dunny’s old sled and wool mitts (Davies, 3). In the future, he even goes as far as waving Leola’s naked photos in front of Dunny’s face (Davies, 148). Boy never grew mentally. Boy symbolizes the appearance of things, directly conflicting Dunny’s values of reality. And while many may believe that Dunny is the Hero of Fifth Business, he is better suited to the archetype of the Wise Old Man. The Wise Old Man acts as uses his personal knowledge to help offer guidance.To support this claim, one could take the example of his teenage years when he worked in a library. Dunny became focused on his...
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