Archetype Essays

Archetypes are found in the mythology, religion, and stories of all cultures. They are patterns or prototypes that are used time and again. One of the dominant archetypal patterns in literature, film and even video game text is the story of a journey or quest. The pattern was recognized by …

In the Grimm Fairytales, there are many antagonists. The most occurring, however, is the Evil Stepmother archetype. In most stories, this character is insensitive to the familial needs, “No, Aschenputtle, you have no proper clothes, and you do not know how to dance, and you will be laughed at!” (Aschenputtle) …

In Brave New World, several kinds of archetypes are shown, such as; the seeker, orphan, hero and God/creator archetype. * The Seeker Archetype: Is someone looking for answers, it may seem as a journey with a vague and aimless direction to where it is heading, but has as its core …

In the alchemist by Paul Coelho, he writes about a shepherd named Santiago. Santiago’s journey is written mainly through situation archetypes. Archetypes are used to categorize people and a situation in stories, poems, plays ect. The predominant archetypes are situational. The most distinguished archetypes in the alchemist are the initiation, …

Archetypes were first described by Carl Young because he saw similarities between pieces of literature. There are several archetypes in most stories and many stories may have some of the same archetypes. This is evidently true in the movie Cool Hand Luke and also in the book “The Catcher in …

Archetypes are recurring symbols, characters, landscapes, or events found in myths and literature across different cultures and eras that help us organize events into categories. There are three main types of archetypes which include situational, character, and symbolic. All three are easily relatable to. Firstly, an example of a unhealable …

Explain Plato’s Theory of ‘Forms’ Plato’s theory of the forms can simply be described as metaphysical existences which are found in a different world from the physical world; the realm of forms. There is only one form of everything and it exists in this world of forms, everything else is …