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    Archetypes In The Hobbit

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    The Hobbit: Literary Analysis “Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait” (132). In J.R.R.Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the reader is taken through a parable that follows Bilbo Baggins on the ‘Hero’s Journey.’ This fantasy classic begins with an ‘everyman’ hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who takes on a perilous journey

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    What would it be like to embark on a journey or do something unlike anything else one has ever done before? Some may seek thrill and adventure, but living in the same world as a hobbit, one might think twice about venturing out. The Hobbit is an allegorical novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. The story follows the protagonist, Bilbo Baggins as he sets out to undertake a long journey with a wizard named Gandalf and thirteen dwarves. In the beginning of the novel Bilbo doesn’t feel the need to set out on a journey

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    Bilbo Baggins’ development into a hero becomes one of the main themes in The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. As a hobbit, Bilbo has always had a comfortable lifestyle in his home in the ground. His ancestry isn’t completely noble to hobbit standards, although his father was from a family with traditional hobbit ways, his mother was from the Took’s family who’re infamous for their un-hobbit-like tendency to go on adventures. Despite his Took’s blood, Bilbo prefers to stay at home and live a quiet life. But

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    In The Hobbit much of the internal conflict throughout the story is shown through the character Bilbo Baggins, this happening while he goes on an adventure of a lifetime. J.R.R. Tolkien uses internal conflict in The Hobbit through the low-mimetic hero Bilbo Baggins through longing to retreat to the comforts of home versus his growing courage, pride versus self-doubt, and the balance between his two polar opposite family ties. From the beginning of the story to the end, there's conflict deeply embedded

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    Literary Analysis of The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit living in the Shire having a peaceful quiet life in his hobbit hole. One day after living a life of leisure and pleasure he is awakened by a rude knock on his door. In a matter of a few hours he will meet the people that changed his life for good. The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien is a story about a hobbit and his adventure. His adventure starts with a knock on his door by his old Friend Gandalf. Gandalf then promptly asks Bilbo”I am looking for

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    successfully use second person narratives) is essential based on the type of narrative the author intends to tell. In addition, the type of conflicts that arise in a novel or short story and how they are portrayed is equally important, but more than that is if they served any kind of meaningful purpose. Although the stories of “Housekeeping” and “The Hobbit” are written for different audiences as well as from different perspectives, they have similarities one may not expect unless they aware how

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    and The Hobbit, there are two stories that tell of a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. In The Devil and Miss Prym, the conflict lies within the main character, Chantal, as she battles with temptation and her own evil desires. The Hobbit tells of a tale about a hobbit from the Shire who sets out on a journey with a group of dwarves to help them recover their stolen treasure from a dragon by the name of Smaug. Each character must come to terms with an internal conflict, that is

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    The Giver and The Hobbit both feature choice as a theme. In The Giver, Jonas discovers the freedom of choice when he receives his instructions after the Ceremony Of Twelve. His instructions give him permission to lie and to be rude. Things that he was never allowed to do. This puts Jonas in a state of internal conflict, because these options have never been truly open to him before. In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins makes his first big choice when he lets the dwarves into his hobbit hole, and then follows

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    emphasis from the external to the internal world…” (Campbell, 12). It is seen in Joseph Campbell’s idea of the monomyth that defeating the shadow, the external struggle, is the main conflict of the story. But after closely analysing a few

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    The hobbit is a work that shows a hobbit named Bilbo grow in wisdom and virtue it is a great piece of work that's deepest level of meaning is characterizing The Hobbit as a Christian Bildungsroman which doesn't just show the process of ignorance to wisdom but from a rite of passage that's moves Bilbo from bourgeois vice to heroic virtue. The story parallels alongside The Lord of The Rings in mystical suggestiveness of its treatment of divine providence and provides moral commentary on the words of

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