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    Chester Archetypes

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    In the movie “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2” It shows that humans may begin lower than everyone else, but they eventually rise up. An archetype in the movie is the evil genius because Chester got bullied when he was younger and he made wedgie proof underwear and he made the food bar which made him millions of dollars. Since Chester make the food bar he was able to make a huge lightbulb lab and he has many inventions from his workers. Chester is very powerful and has everyone wanting to be like

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    Archetypes In Beowulf

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    "The incitement to violence depends on the total transvaluation of the ordinary values. By a single stroke, the most criminal acts must be converted to heroic and meritorious deeds" (Gardner 117). Red Horse, Hrothulf’s adviser, describes perfectly the black and white Anglo-Saxon culture that leaves Grendel confused and alone. John Gardner’s novel, Grendel, pushes the idea of a world of gray where neither hero nor villain exists, everyone a combination of damning and redeeming traits. Although Gardner

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    Archetypes In The Odyssey

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    The character in Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey has heroic characteristics that make an archetype of an epic hero in literature. Odysseus is the ideal man, handsome, brave strong and loyal. He possesses characteristics that make people around him trust him as their leader like intelligence and loyalty, but he also has flaws like being self centered and over prideful at times as well, being arrogant. He shows his good qualities by overcoming obstacles in the story and getting his men out of trouble.

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    The Personal and Collective Unconscious To many, the unconscious is a section of our minds that is inconceivable and almost nonexistent. Like many things in life, what we cannot explain, we cannot accept. Sigmund Freud, mastermind of the field of psychology, began to theorize and explain the concept of the unconscious and its effects on our personal lives. Carl Gustav Jung was a young colleague of Sigmund Freud who made the “exploration of this “inner space” [the unconscious] his life’s work (Boeree

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    Archetypes In The Odyssey

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    modern perspective of a hero in literature, real life, or otherwise. For instance, he demonstrates paragon amounts of loyalty throughout his return voyage to Ithaca, along with leadership, courage, and persistence. As Odysseus is primarily an archetype in addition to his heroic characteristics, his influences have endured the odyssey of time, and have become comparable in themselves to their prior forms present in the adventurous hero Odysseus. Although the modifications in the perceptions of

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    Always introspective, Jung’s theory was partly elicited in a dream. Jung was on the second floor in a Renaissance Period house ornately furnished in baroque style. He wandered to the first floor, which was detailed in a less ornate, medieval style. Descending further into a stone floored basement, he found a trap door that led to a dusty, dank cave in the very bottom of the house. There he found two bashed in skulls (Baer, 2003, p.177). At the time, Jung enjoyed a working relationship with Freud

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    Archetype Symbols

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    whole life has been, eat, sleep, breathe, cheer. I have been a cheerleader for 6 years now and my passion for continuing never runs out. When I am performing, it makes me feel invincible and like pure royalty. Next, in quadrant two, is spiritual archetype symbols. The color green represents growth and safety, which for me is my spiritual beliefs. I drew a cross to example martyrdom, a crescent moon to represent my transition, and an emerald to stand for the faith

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    Archetypes In Haroun

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    Haroun’s type of archetypal character roles are the denied hero and the apocalyptic hero, and the purpose of his archetypal quests are ridding the land of danger, and the warrior’s journey to save his people. Haroun’s two types of archetypal characters roles, such as the denied hero at the beginning of the novel, seamlessly transform into the apocalyptic hero as the book progresses. Haroun also has a few archetypal quests such as ridding the land of danger, as Haroun strives to bring the moon Kahani

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    Archetype Of Cinderella

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    French story where Cinderella gets tortured by her stepmother and sisters and a fairly godmother helped her get prince charming. The Zimbabwe one is pretty different having only one sister and that there is no step-mother. Cinderella is a character archetype that changes throughout cultures like the Zimbabwe and French Cinderella, which have different trials, stepsisters, and fairy godmothers.

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    In the movie The Avengers, the main characters Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, and Hawkeye fit the hero’s journey archetype through their adventure of saving Manhattan. In the Departure stage, God of Mischief Loki comes to earth through a portal caused by the Tesseract and Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, and other agents of S.H.I.E.L.D try to assemble a team to stop Loki. The heroes chosen by Nick Fury, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and Thor, don't want to join together to defeat

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