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Defined innocent means showing the simplicity or the naivete of an unworldly person (Dictionary). Archetypes in american literature are used to represent a persons emotions or personality. In american literature authors use the innocent to promote the view that humanity suffers, and happiness is found only found in those who work to find it.

This paper aims at using Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung’s collective unconscious and archetypal theories to interpret the archetypes of characters, natural scenes and themes.

Carl Jung is a psychologist that theorized the idea of the archetype. An archetype is any reoccurring symbol, theme, motif, or situation used in literature. Jung believed that archetypes are derived from the unconscious and are innate ideas that all human beings have. The Archetype of Abandonment is the more obvious archetype perceived in the story. “Haroun’s mother, Soraya, had run off with Mr. Sengupta.” (Rushdie 21). Haroun and his father Rashid were abandoned by his mother at 11:00 am. This abandonment caused such sadness in Haroun and Rashid resulting in the latter’s loss of storytelling. This archetype displays to the audience the tragedy of abandonment and the negative outcome of it; in this case the grief ultimately caused Rashid’s

There is no original story. All stories derive themes and characters that go with the human situation, The Archetypes. An Archetype is undeniably a theme for the character, the common Archetypes that Author’s exhibit are; The Hero, The Mentor, The Villain, and The Innocence. Authors use Archetypes to develop meaning to their stories, for a much deeper connection between the reader and the characters. After reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth, There are many relations to Archetypes and Character meaning. Archetypal is approached being closely connected with psychological theory because different archetypes are inserted in human psyche and the mass of archetypes have individualities with the personalities, their actions, and behaviour

Her mother had passed years earlier, and August is found in denial about her death. For many years, she didn’t want to believe it and mentally would convince herself that she was coming back home and was alive. She convinced not only herself, but her brother also. Repeatedly in the novel she would make reference to her mom’s existence. On page 110, August wanted her mom to know that she had made friends with girls, because her mom always told her not to trust them. She explains, “I’d say can you see this Mama? Can you?” (110). She would claim to hear her mother’s voice, and when she asked her mom if she could see the life she was living, she said she hadn’t heard her mother’s voice in years. She wanted her mom to see that the things she taught her to stay clear of weren’t all true, and that she was doing okay. Not having a mother made August feel very different from her peers, and contributed to her insecurities. It wasn’t until her mother’s voice she once always heard began to dwindle when she realized her mother was in fact dead, and her faith of it being a possibility that she was alive vanished. On page 225, August for the first time makes note of this: “Once I came very close to saying for a long time my mother wasn’t dead yet. But Didn’t” (225). Evidently it took a while for August to settle with this and this moment was a turning point for her in the novel. This moment didn’t come until the last chapter of the novel, which goes to show it was a complicated journey for

Not only is August caring and a good mentor, but she is also very accepting of Lily for who she is. Since the beginning of the book, August has always been an inviting and accepting character. August meet Lily when she showed up at her house, instead of turning her away August allow Lily to stay with them. “Well, you can stay here till you figure out what to do. We can’t have you living on the side of the road.”( Kidd ) August was just told that Lily and Rosaleen had run away from home. August welcomes them into her home and allows them to stay with her. As the book goes on many lies about Lily’s past are told. August knows that Lily is lying but never presses. When it finally comes time for the truth to be told, August never yelled, she just listened. When Lily is telling August about all of the lies she

Jung’s idea of experiences of synchronicity included the presence of archetypes. An archetype is an ideal example or model person that others copy or base their actions upon. Jung had archetypes such as the animus, the anima, and the shadow. The animus is expressed as a masculine inner personality in females, while the anima is expressed as a feminine inner personality in males. The shadow archetype consists of repressed shortcomings, weaknesses, and instincts. These archetypes are of the collective unconscious, and not based on people in their daily lives.

According to Carl Jung’s theory, the psyche has three parts to it; the ego, personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious (Golden, date unknown.) Jung believed that the archetypes were part of the collective unconscious; this is where psychological inheritance happens. “All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes” (Golden, date unknow.) Jung believed each archetype had its own unique values, meanings, and personality traits. It is possible that people display more than one kind of archetype, but there always seems to be one specific archetype that makes itself more apparent (Golden, date unknown.)

Carl Jung was a mental genius when it came to archetypes I can’t see in any light another type of story being told without using at least one of his archetypes. It is, always has a mixture of one to tell a story. The hero can be seen in many of the world's greatest pieces of literature “The Odyssey”, Hamlet, as well as Troy all works that transcend through time. The wise old man an elderly person who shows great wisdom and judgement. Such as Uncle Ben in Spiderman, Mr.Miyagi, and Alfred in Batman. My personal favorite the trickster seen in Huckleberry Finn, The Joker, and as well as The Riddler which I think all these people are covered up by the bad things they to do instead of what genius it takes to think of the things they did. Archetypes

Jung defines archetypes as, “Universal images that have existed since the remotest times. As a figure that repeats itself in the course of history wherever creative fantasy is fully manifested” (Jung, 7). Regarding the idea of archetypes, Northup Frye was a prominent theorist who contributed to the study and progression of archetypes; he applied Jung’s theories about collective unconscious, archetypes, and primal images to literature. Through Frye’s proposition of four mythoi type plots, “He formed a strong basis for four major genres that associated with each season of the year: comedy (spring), romance (summer), tragedy (fall), satire (winter)” (Frye, 45). According to Carl Jung the goal of humanity is to achieve individuation, the goal is to reach a state where the unconscious is known and integrated into the conscious mind. It is collective in nature from our human ancestors, predisposed human ways of perceiving, responding and reacting.

Carl Gustav Jung is a Swiss psychiatrist and the successor of psychoanalysis with important intellectual movements of the twentieth century. In his early career, Jung was influenced by the theory of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis (Breger 2000, p. 217). However, they came into disagreement in notions which then broke their relationship. It was because Freud’s view of myth was based on reality, which there was no religion involved, whereas Jung though that myth was based on both reality and religion. Consequently, Jung’s notions were commonly accepted by society because of the wider context. Then, through his research and clinical findings, he developed some concepts like archetypes, collective unconscious, shadow, extrovert and introvert and persona (Carter 2011 p. 442). These concepts help Jung to deepen the explanation about myth. For Jung, myth is a projection of archetypes and collective unconscious. Their form are universal and identical with every society back into history. Myth can be identical because the original form, the archetypes, is configured to be the same among human's unconscious globally where people's psychic realm encounters certain motifs and typical figures that built into the structure of man’s unconsciousness (Jung Myth Ex. 3-4). According to Edward Tylor and James Frazer, myth and science were contradict where science was factual and myth was not (Segal 2003, p. 48). Therefore, myth has an important role in human nature and modern

The formulation of the archetypes is described as an empirically derived concept, like that of the atom; it is a concept based not only on medical evidence but on observations of mythical, religious and literary phenomena, these archetypes are considered to be primordial images, spontaneous products of the psyche which do not reflect any physical process, but are reflected in them (Jung 54).

The archetypes, which is one of the eight psychological types from Jung’s theory explains the dissonance that Peter is having. The anima and the animus archetypes refer to Jung’s recognition that humans are bisexual in their psyche. He defines the anima as the psyche of the man what contains the feminine aspects. His anima is persuading Peter to assume the traditional female role, and to care for the children and to care for the house. At the same time, Peter’s masculine characteristics of being the breadwinner is exhibited. The animus is responsible for this behavior as it is masculine aspects of the psyche. The interplay of the anima and the animus is causing Peter to continue to work and earn money for his family and to quit his job and to stay home with his family.

In the 1920’s, a Swiss psychologist named Carl Jung devised a theory. Jung didn’t accept the idea that the behaviors of people were random. Instead, he was a firm believer that the differences between individuals were a result of how people use their brains. Jung claimed that “what appears to be random behavior is actually the result of differences in the way people prefer to use their mental capacities.” (The Myers & Briggs Foundation). Jung realized that people typically function in one of two ways, take in information or make decisions, and that people usually are more comfortable alone or around others. With all these observations, Jung wrote a book titled Psychological Types, which introduced the idea of personality and psychological

Carl Jung was a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist born in 1875 in Switzerland. He worked with Sigmund Freud for a while but branched off because he disagreed with him about the “sexual basis of neurosis”. Jung believed that there is a collective unconscious that is connected to everyone. God is included in this collective unconscious. His theory included what he called archetypes; pathways of energy (not things) that are shared in the collective. four main archetypes are: The Self, The Shadow, The Anima/Animus, and the Persona. The Self is the combination of the conscious, and the individual’s unconscious. the self is usually represented by a square or a circle. The self tries to make itself known. The shadow is made up of our sexual desires or instincts, and is credited with being the darker side of our personalities. The Anima/Animus are the masculine and feminine of our psyche. There are traces of each found in both women and men. The Persona is the face that people put on for others. The word “persona” comes from the Latin word for mask. This is the personality the world sees. (Carl Jung Archetypes) Jung coined the word