Pan Archetype

Utopia, according to Google, is defined as an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The biggest concept to understand as a person analyzing literature is that a utopia cannot ever exist, there is always going to be flaws and they will often be destructive. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses the utopian society archetype to show that the citizens give up their identity and give into conformity. Through this, Huxley reveals that in any society we assimilate to the social norm of society to be happy, thus compromising our identity for happiness.

In her film, Unbroken, Angelina Jolie uses the archetype of warrior to reveal how we as humans keep fighting and believing for what we want in order to survive the greatest difficulties in life. In the movie, Louie Zamperini demonstrates the archetype, warrior, throughout the movie to show how we as humans act when we want to accomplish it. During WWII, Louie Zamperini was set out to go on a mission across the ocean. However, their plane didn’t make it and crashed into the ocean. Only three of them survived, including Louie. They survived 47 days out at sea, stranded on a single lifeboat, living with limited supplies to last them. They were finally spotted by the enemies, Japan, and brought back to prisoner camps. From that point, Louie

In contrast many people criticized Pancho Villa as being a bandolero, a thief, a killer, and overall criminal. A man who began his career as an outlaw and bandit, became a symbol of the revolution to Mexican peasants during and after his death. Despite documented evidence of his cruelty and unreasonable disregard for human life in the way he sacked innocent people from their food and killed indiscriminately in his raids throughout the revolution, Pancho Villa was popular amongst the poor, as he was known to share stolen goods amongst the poor who suffered from Porfirio Diaz’s

This self-description of the narrator says it all. He gives a brutal, yet inflated description of himself and his friends that gives the reader a very round main character.

The first example of Day breaking the archetype is near the beginning of the book, when he breaks into a government hospital. He is searching for plague cures, desperate to save his younger brother, and ends up in a precarious predicament. As written on page 29, “I grab the first person I see- a young doctor standing close to the door. Before any of the soldiers can point a gun in our direction, I whip out one of my knives and hold it close to the man’s throat.” Day continues to tell the doctor that he won’t intentionally hurt him, yet continues to utilise him as a human shield. This is important as it creates the question would a hero put another person’s life in danger? In society today, a hero is selfless and is willing to take a bullet

Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, utilizes two archetypes: redemptive sacrifice and innocence. A reoccurring theme in the novel is justice. Erdrich’s incorporation of archetypes and the theme of justice help readers sympathize with the narrator and justify the final act of revenge.

George Lucas’ Star Wars “A New Hope” is an award winning film that graced the silver screen in 1977. Star Wars: A New Hope (New Hope) conforms to Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. “George Lucas was an avid admirer of Joseph Campbell’s writings, and used them as a direct reference in his creation of Star Wars.” There is also a great deal of the Jungian framework that presents itself in a New Hope. A good number of archetypes are present in the film.

A person’s environment hugely impacts who they are, what they believe in, and the manner in which they present themselves to the world. Prince Prospero from “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, and Captain Vidal from the film “Pan's Labyrinth” come from very similar environments. As a result they have similar personality traits, and their views and beliefs about the world are alike.

2. Looking at the candle before me, it was hard to imagine that it was made from the tallow of a sheep.

Explain which Archetypes are represented by which characters in the novel. Write a paragraph on each of the 7 archetypes, explaining which character(s) represent the archetype (Remember that there might be more than one character representing each archetype, some characters might embody more than one archetype, and some archetypes might possibly be missing.)

The short story “Everyday Use” focuses around a middle aged African-American woman who lives in an impoverished home in a time frame around the mid-20th century. This woman is described as having a rough life, having very manly attributes and somewhat a very simple woman. She has two children, one that lives with her still and another that has left home and pursued a vastly different lifestyle than that of her and her other daughter. The older daughter named Dee seems to have abandoned her emotionally in pursuit of an alternative way of embracing her heritage which appears to be towards traditional African values and culture.

My favorite scene in the book is in chapter 11, during Halloween, when Penelope told Junior that she was going trick or treat to ask for only spare change tonight instead, of candy, and give the spare change to the homeless. Suddenly, Junior suggested, “Why don’t we pool more money tomorrow and send it together? We’d be able to give twice as much.” (page: 78) Later, Junior goes trick or treating, and he asked for spare change and some even gave him spare change and candy. However, there were lots of people that slammed their doors on him. “When walking home, three guys jumped him. They were wore Frankenstein masks and shoved him to the ground and started to kick him a few times. Mostly they just wanted to remind me that I was a traitor. And

The most obvious thing that is important to the character is his adopted daughter, Anna. Throughout the narrative he shows that he cares for her happiness and her health. She is unable to speak clearly and tell her own story, so the character (father) tells it for her. The character is trying to show the reader how effective music can be as a therapy, and is using his own experience to prove the worth of musical therapy. He gives example after example of how music improved the life of his daughter, and how she looks forward to her day with music so eagerly. One line he says, “Ask her a direct question and you will get a stammered word or two at most. Play a song and she will begin to shout out the words, even if she has never heard them before. ”It is a testament to how much music can change her attitude and behaviours. It seems to fill her with confidence and strength where usually she is frail, a picture painted by the quote above.

1. The River – Almost any source of water will focus on the importance of life. Without water there is no life. A journey on or down a river is often a metaphor for life’s journey or a character’s journey, especially if the river is shown as a road or means of travel – pulling or pushing a character through changes. (Twain’s Huck Finn) Rivers can also be a metaphor for the passage of time (Big Fish) or the stages of a human life (creek, roaring river, sea; or the crossing of the river Styx in Greek myths). Since rivers are often used as political borders or boundaries, crossing one may be seen as a “passing over” or a decision that cannot be taken back. In Africa, and thus African literature, rivers are the

The Monkey King character in Wu Ch'eng-en’s “Journey to West” displays excellent examples of characterization through both direct and indirect methods. The author directly references some of the Monkey King’s character traits directly in the story; however, the progression of his character is seen more completely through the character’s actions, thoughts, and his effect on other characters. While direct characterization sets the stage for the reader’s view of the Monkey King, the character’s personality is best seen through the various methods of indirect characterization.