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    Archetypes are in every movie, book, tv show, and so on. An Archetype is a typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature. There are many different archetypes in the movie The Princess Bride. Westley is a great example of the chief archetype. The chief archetype is known and born to be a leader. When Fezzik and Inigo need help saving Princess Buttercup from the castle and from marrying Prince Humperdink, the first person they think of to

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    Jack Sparrow Archetype

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    Archetype Essay An archetype is a character seen throughout literature and different cultures with the same traits. A trickster has many of the following traits: the ability to disguise oneself, helpful, clever, traveler, acting sneaky, and more. These are some of the traits Jack Sparrow possesses in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. Jack Sparrow was able to disguise himself in the movie. In the beginning he was able to dock his boat without giving the dockboy his actual name because he paid the

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    In Euripides’ play Medea, the audience is introduced to a uniquely female perspective often absent in Greek drama. Of course, this perspective, being written by a man, is not absent of the female mythological archetypes common throughout all of Greek literature. Most of the female characters hold archetypal roles to move the story forward. However, during the course of the play, Medea defies a simple archetypal prescription. She fits in between the lines of a “good” character and “bad” character

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    Ken Kesey’s, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, is a suspenseful composition with an undertone theme of the fact that society is controlled and that the physical perception does not determine the stature of a person. The protagonist, Chief Bromden, is a perfect example of a victim of this theme. Chief Bromden, immaturely nicknamed “Chief Broom” because the aides (or black boys) make him sweep the halls, narrates the story. Although he says that he is telling the story about “the hospital, and her,

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    Humans have been using stories for years to define their culture. Over time, myths, legends, and fairy tales tend to use the same pattern, known as an archetype. According to Literary Devices, an archetype “may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting,” (1). Heracles, or Hercules in his Roman form, was the Greek demi-god son of Zeus, and he falls under the hero type archetype, where he is a character who shows goodness and struggles against evil in order to restore the peace in society

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    Why Undertale Is Bad

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    Why Undertale is Not a Bad Game Two races, humans and monsters, had a war. The monsters were defeated and were trapped underground by a magical barrier, but it can be broken with a human soul and a monster soul. Undertale is a game which got popular around the world for its morals, clever story, goofy characters and humour. However, many people who haven’t played Undertale already cringe at the name and call it overrated. Before I explain, there are a few reasons why Undertale is hated on. People

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    Mythology and Archetypes in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird       Of all the various approaches to criticism, the Mythological/Archetypal achieves the greatest impact over the entire literary scope, because the themes and patterns unearthed apply universally to all works, yielding results that can be applied to a great many texts. This is because the very nature of the Mythological/Archetypal approach is the exploration of the canon for widespread and pervading symbols, plots, and

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    Robertson Davies paralleled Carl Jung’s theory of archetypes being the model of people in the novel Fifth Business. Carl Jung is a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who introduces the concept of archetypes being the core understanding of human psychology in 1990. According to Jung, archetypes are images, stories, dreams, and personalities that have universal meaning. Archetypes represent the collective unconscious, which is part of the psyche that models how a person should behave in society. Jung

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    In Fifth Business, a novel by the Canadian author Robertson Davies, the role of the mother and the representation of “mother figures’ and “mother love’ appear in both obvious and subtle ways. While Dunstan Ramsay, the protagonist in the novel develops and grows in many ways as the story progresses, his journey from boy to man is significantly impacted by the women in his life and the manner in which he navigates his connections and bonds in relation to the women in his world. From Mrs. Ramsay, Dunstan’s

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    ‘The object of art is to give life shape’. William Shakespeare, the most eminent playwright who’s ever lived, has captured the essence of his work through this solitary quote. Despite being over 400 years old, his plays resonate with modern audiences, thus justifying the notion that his tragedies are still pertinent now. His play Taming of the Shrew, written in 1593, is an excellent illustration of a Shakespeare play with perpetual relevance through its use of archetypal characters and themes. This

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