The Rose Archetype

An archetype is a “character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature” such as Hercules going on a hero’s journey to conquer the evil villians and achieve a “god-like” status (Archetype). The journey and challenges he faces lead him into a heroic ending and saving a damsel in distress. Similarly, in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, the characters face a journey of self discovery through varying archetypes. Jack Worthing is a dreamer, Cecily and Gwendolen struggle to play the innocent child role, and Ernest is prince charming. The archetypes portrayed in The Importance of Being Earnest epitomize a journey with self discovery and a resolution worth defending.

Marie Lu, a prominent teen author, has incepted many titles that have been consummated from her exceptional takes on 7 key Concepts of Style. They are the most noticeable in the excerpts “The Rose Society” and “The Young Elites”. Some examples of the 7 Key Concepts of Style are sentenced length and variation, detail and figurative language, sound devices, dialogue, tone, and irony. Marie Lu, the author, has excelled in the Key Concepts of Style with use of irony and detail/figurative language.

Chapter 16: Sex can be symbolized through many means or archetypes. This occurs as many authors use common archetypes representing the mechanics involving intercourse. An active reader will be able to identify these symbols and decipher the truth in what is occurring in the novel or story.

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.

Archetypes are a common literary component seen through past and present day literature, their contributions can be noted in many passages such as the “The Big Fish”. Much like Jay Gatsby the main character within the Big Fish, Edward Bloom is a man that is commonly described as being larger than life. Within this movie Edward Bloom, much like Gatsby takes on the role of the archetypal hero and embarks on the ever so known heroic journey. Both characters revolve their quest around hopes of attaining love from their destined soul mate, despite their setbacks because of other male characters. Again, both Gatsby and Edward’s fate ends in their dismiss after they have reached the end of their metaphoric journey.

The first archetype that is introduced in the very beginning of the book and continues to effect the plotline is soma and its color. Within the book, soma is seen as a drug that is given out by the world state in order to keep control. Although it is only strawberry ice cream, it is believed to be a drug that can calm and distract the society. It is not so much the soma that is the archetype but the color of the soma; the color pink is made up by mixing red and white. The color red is seen as a intense color that represents danger, anger and passion.

While many works of fiction portray love through a utopian perspective where true love is easy to achieve, the story of Cyrano follows a failed quest for intimacy, where Cyrano’s own tragic flaws stop him from achieving the romance he dreams of. It is these same tragic flaws that help to define Cyrano as a tragic hero in Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, and it is these same flaws that eventually lead to Cyrano’s tragic fall. However, some of these flaws are also the admirable traits of the large-nosed hero’s character that also help to define him as hero. Due to this fact, Cyrano is able to gain respect from others, but never truly reaches his ultimate goal of having Roxane’s love. While Cyrano never truly experiences Roxane’s

In Nabokov’s 1955 novel, ‘Lolita’, the fictitious foreword, presented by the equally fictitious John Ray Jr., Ph.D., describes Humbert Humbert as a ‘shining example of moral leprosy’ (Nabokov 1955). However, throughout the novel, Humbert appears to manipulate numerous characters, most of all Dolores Haze and her infatuated mother through his alluring good looks and his sophisticated British manner. Similarly, in Wilde’s 1890 novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, Dorian, also a hideously immoral main character, successfully disguises the true horror of his sins and uses his youthful charm to continue with his upper-class life of excess and perversion. Thus, both characters possess a comparable ‘dark side’, a side which is concealed to

The traditions of storytelling have long been used as a means to impart wisdom and life lessons to others. One of the most effective ways in which this is done is through the use of archetypes. While it is possible to look at these images in a general way, one may also focus an analysis on a single tale. In this way it is possible to explore the particular images used and their significance in a given situation, (often a coming of age rite of

Dorian Gray’s change from an innocent youth to a pleasure seeker over the course of the novel show Wilde’s unique use of characterization. His relatable theme of deception create a novel that has and will continue to last a

The poem “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Eliot is one extended metaphor depicting the trials the character must go through in his attempt to achieve his quest for the ideal. In this case, the ideal is the world inhabited by the ladies he wants to talk to. The perils the character, Prufrock, has to contend with are low self-esteem and his fear of rejection. The poet illustrates his character’s low self-esteem with the image that Prufrock paints of himself as a man “With a bald spot in the middle of my hair” (39). Prufrock’s poor self-image is also evident in his

One may say that a neat person cleans every second of the day while a sloppy person doesn't clean up after themselves but in the article we will differentiate between the two. In the essay Neat People vs. Sloppy People, by Dave Barry he has his own opinion on the two. In the essay he says “ Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people”, I agree with that because I am a very neat person but I am not lazy. I like my room to be cleaned a certain way and the bathroom, cleaned the certain way because if it isn't cleaned the way I clean it will make me feel like it wasn't cleaned to its full potential.

Catherine the great and Louis the XIV they both had lots of power in their lifetimes.

Social workers should always evaluate their work, as this helps them to assess the areas that are working in their practice and what areas could be improved upon. Social workers can evaluate their own practice, the efficacy of a program, or how their agency is doing. However, there are a multitude of different ways that social works can evaluate their practice and work. During my internship at Wright County Health and Human Services, I chose to evaluate the children’s mental health outreach program.

Archetypes are used in literature to portray a certain meaning, that helps create a better and more meaningful story. The archetypes used can be embedded in the characters, symbols, or even rituals involved in a story. These archetypes can help give deeper meaning to the story by giving a underlying reference to concepts that are used over and over again in literature throughout history. When an author uses an archetype in his or her writing, they link it to many other stories that use that same archetype. Some do this for a reason, to give an underlying meaning, to symbolized something of importance, or even just to make their story more interesting. Many readers may not notice the underlying archetype, but sometimes the author uses them because he or she knows that the reader will.