Pygmalion Archetypes

An archetype is a model or ideal example in which other things are patterned. There are many archetypes that could represent many characters; but for my character, Haley Kincain, the caregiver archetype represents her the best. Haley represents a caregiver due to constantly caring for her father and his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, along with helping her friends with problems like divorce and bullying. I found her to be pragmatic, considerate and patient throughout the book.

An archetype is a recurrent symbol or motif in literature. There are situational archetypes and character archetypes. I am going to be talking about the situational archetype Quest and the character archetype the Initiate. The Initiate is the underdog of the story, the hero that has to go through a little training. The Quest is a search for someone or something. Author Ingrid Law uses these two archetypes in the novel Savvy.

This would be when she says: “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. (Didion, 88)”. I think is very relatable to most people, as I can remember many a night, and day for that matter, where my mind wanders back to something stupid I had said or done in the past, months, even years

Then she says that “good country people”, who are seen as less educated and poorer than people like her. Mrs. Hopewell sees herself on a higher tier and describes herself as having “no

The archetype that I chose is the father figure archetype. The father figure archetype is a person often of particular power or influence who serves as an emotional substitute for a parent. The character that I have chosen is George Milton from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. George fits into the father figure archetype because throughout the story he fills in as the father figure to Lennie. In the first chapter of the story we get a look into how George cares for Lennie, “Sure we are, if you gather up some dead willow sticks.

An archetype is a very typical example of a certain person or thing and is used to primarily convey the idea of the authors point. In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, written by Carol Joyce Oates, she uses various types of examples using archetypes to prove the different characters and their situations in their specific life environment. The short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” , is about an innocent 15 year old girl Connie who has a normal teenage life until a strange older guy Arnold tries to enter her life.

It was criticized for negative stereotyping. Louise Jefferson was like an old-south “Mammy”, and George, although rich, was always the butt of someone’s joke, whom no one really respected.

“She is very likable and it's even stated that she speaks in a low voice which draws people in.” When she was younger, she was taken on many dates

Daisy knows that she is marginalized. When her daughter was born, she claimed that, “the best thing a girl can be in this world [is] a beautiful little fool” (17). It can be argued that this statement is actively perpetuating the substandard roles of women in the 1920s. However, Daisy is limited in her power, and she knows this. She wants her daughter to be protected. Daisy is not happy in her marriage. She is surrounded by wealth and affluence, but her husband is cheating on her and she does not want to be in the marriage. But, she has to act the fool. She cannot cause a

An issue like this affects the whole world, whether people realize it or not. If orphans have no one to look after them, sometimes they can become scared or upset- or even violent and reckless.

Orphan: An orphan is a “child aged zero to 17 years whose mother, father, or both have died. However, there are other children who are referred to as social orphans even though one or both their parents may still be alive but who have been unable to perform parental duties because of illness or acute poverty among other reasons” (Home Grown School Feeding, n.d.).

     Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth is an affront to the false social values of fashionable New York society.  The heroine is Lily Bart, a woman who is destroyed by the very society that produces her.  Lily is well-born but poor.  The story traces the decline of Lily as she moves through a series of living residences, from houses to hotel lodgings.  Lily lives in a New York society where appearances are all.  Women have a decorative function in such an environment, and even her name, Lily, suggests she is a flower of femininity, i.e. an object of decoration as well as of desirability to the male element.  We see this is very true once Lily's bloom fades, as it were, a time when she

Over the centuries, women’s duties or roles in the home and in the work force have arguably changed for the better. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen teaches the reader about reputation and loves in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries by showing how Elizabeth shows up in a muddy dress, declines a marriage proposal and how women have changed over time. Anything a woman does is reflected on her future and how other people look at her. When Elizabeth shows up to the Bingley’s in a muddy dress they categorize her as being low class and unfashionable. Charles Bingley, a rich attractive man, and his sister had a reputation to protect by not letting their brother marry a ‘low class girl’. Reputation even today and back in the nineteenth

Orphan is a psychological horror thriller film. Orphan is about a married couple who recently lost their baby and adopts a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be. Esther (adopt girl) have Borderline personality disorder she have long-term patterns of unstable and turbulent emotions. These inner experiences often result in impulsive actions and chaotic relationships with other people (new family) .Symptoms of borderline personality disorder are: Intense fear of being abandoned, Cannot tolerate being alone, Frequent feelings of boredom, inappropriate anger , impulsiveness, such as with substance abuse or sexual relationships, Repeated crises and acts of self-injury, such as wrist cutting or overdosing. In the beginning of the movie when they took Esther in she wanted the family to feel sympathy for her she appears to be 9 years old but she’s 33 year old woman She has hypopituitarism, a hormone disorder that stunted her physical growth, and has spent most of her life posing as a little girl. Esther Frequent displays of inappropriate anger when she kills Sister Abigail ( the head of the orphanage) because after Kate (adopted mom) becomes suspicious that there might be some problems with Esther's she have more knowledge of sex than a child at her age she calls her sister Abigail and warns her that Esther is dangerous to be around . Kate warns her husband john but he refused to listen because he thinks she’s a innocent little child and

Social standing is central to the plot of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”. The portrayal of class identity in Shaw’s play appears to be a criticism of the distinctions between high society and the poorer classes in Victorian England. Shaw’s aim was to portray how the upper-crust of Victorian society viewed the lower classes, as evidenced by Higgins’ treatment of Eliza upon her first visit to his laboratory; Higgins treats her as though she is too stupid to understand that he is insulting her. The assumption is that the wealthy view the lower classes as being somehow lesser. So what is it that Shaw is trying to impart upon the reader? Shaw appeared to show open disdain not just for the upper class of society but for society in general, and Pygmalion may be interpreted as an open criticism of class distinctions in Victorian England.