The novel Nineteen Minutes is written by Jodi Picoult’s novel, a remarkable story about bullying. It takes place in a town called Sterling where a school shooting had taken place. The main character is a boy named Peter, who has been bullied his whole life, leading him to make an senseless decision. The author uses the theory archetypal, to define the anti-hero character, Peter Houghton. This theory was created by the psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung. He used the concept of archetype in his theory of the human psyche. In the novel, the theory is shown, through Peter Houghton’s discovery of his shadow; our dark side, his change in behaviour as well as his his suppressed unconscious memories.
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Peter was bullied since the first day of kindergarten up till the day of the shooting. He was defended by his only friend, Josie. By sixth grade, she was no longer friends with him since she became friends with the popular kids. This lead her to also bully Peter. Peter discovered his shadow after an incident which took place at school where Josie and her friends had humiliated him in front of the whole school. He decided that he was going to make the suffering end and stole his dad’s guns and created bombs to end his suffering. "Peter didn't feel remorse for what he’d done, that much was clear. In fact, he considered himself a victim" (Picoult 133). Peter didn't feel any guilt for the murders he committed on the day of the rampage. He believed that every single person he murdered had deserved it. He considered himself a victim as well as a victim of being bullied. Carl Jung used the shadow to represent “the dark side of someone's self persona due to the loss of human emotions and impulses like power, selfishness, greed, jealousy, hatred and their surroundings” (Diamond par. …show more content…
Jung describes archetype as “patterns of behavior”. After many incidents between Peter had with Matt, Peter created a virtual computer game which he eventually turned to reality. “Peter got out of bed and sat down at his desk, pulling his eighth-grade yearbook from the drawer where he’d banished it months ago. He’d create a computer game that was Revenge of the Nerds, but updated for the twenty first century. A fantasy where the balance of power was turned on its head, where the underdog finally got a chance to beat the bullies. He took a marker and started circling portraits. Drew Girard. Matt Royston. John Eberhard. Josie Cormier” (Picoult 222). When relating to Jung’s theory, “Jung believed that the human psyche was composed of three components: the ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. According to Jung, the ego represents the conscious mind while the personal unconscious contains memories including those that have been suppressed” (Cherry par. 2). Peter used the video game to bury his memories to his unconscious mind. “The appearance of an impressive shadow figure antagonistically confronting a personal consciousness[...] because the shadow is so disagreeable to his ego-consciousness that it has to repressed into the
Life is something that we all have. We all have it differently and live it the way we want to live. Some people are more daring and adventurous than others and some people are sitting at home and reading a good book. Life gives us different paths and we learn new things, make mistakes, and learn from them. The more we learn, the less innocent we are. This is called an innocence to experience archetype, where is a loss of innocence which leads to experience. The book Paper Towns written by John Green shows this archetype through the main character, Quentin. Quentin Jacobsen is taken on an adventure by his love and neighbour, Margo Roth Spiegelman based on the clues that she has left behind. Quentin starts out as a “concerned for college with a perfect attendance” kind of person who goes on a journey and learns about things that he has never heard of, which is his loss of innocence who at the
“The archetype is probably Jung’s most difficult concept. Archetypes are inherited predispositions to respond to the world in certain ways. They are primordial images, representations of the instinctual energies of the collective unconscious” (Frager). The archetypes in Jung’s analysis are the shadow, anima, animus and self. Beginning with the shadow, this to be a person of the same sex but possessing different traits. The Wicked Witch represents the shadow, the dark or unconscious part of the personality that the conscious ego tries to ignore. Along with the witch, her heinous flying monkeys could be categorized into this archetype. The Wicked Witch of the West is a dark, controlling presence who seeks to dominate and control. Any person seen throughout the world could be symbolized by the witch as a foreboding character and one who thought all was right with their plan of action, hence a universal
Carl Jung was a disciple of Sigmund Freud, despite the two having conflicting ideas. One of Jung’s most well known and accepted theories was the existence of different types of archetypes in the brain. These include the ego, which is where our conscious awareness and sense of identity reside, and the shadow, which is the part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts. In the novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, the protagonist Gene exemplifies the shadow, while his friend, Finny, personifies the ego. The author narrates through the shadow, though he clearly supports the ego. However, he also makes it apparent that it is wrong to be dominated by either archetype.
The narrator and his brother’s bear physical abuse from pap’s which led them to become more violent towards one another and people outside. The narrator and his brothers were abused by their father whe...
The fourteen-year-old girl is a round and dynamic character with great depth. The round characteristics are seen within her broad and complex emotions. She has developed an aggressive temperament in response to abuse from her Apa and teasing from her sisters who call her “bull hands”, laughing at her masculine features. This temperament has led her to state: ”I began keeping a piece of jagged brick in my sock to bash my sisters or anyone who called me bull hands.” (Bausch) Her temper...
Carl Gustav Jung, “The Principle Archetypes” in The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends, ed. David H. Richter (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989), 666.
Psychoanalyst Carl Jung suggested all humanity is innately programmed with a set of primordial images as a collective unconscious. These primordial images, which he called archetypes, are buried deep in the subconscious until a triggering event brings them to the forefront. Artists, writers, musicians and p...
Furthermore, Campbell explained such patterns by using Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, which he was strongly influenced with. Psychological organs that developed through the evolution, is the idea Jung gave of archetypes (Jung 81). To him they are recurring patterns, images and ideas which all humans inherited in their unconsciousness (Volgar 23). In addition, Campbell described his theory as a reoccurring cycle of pattern consisting of three phases: Departure, Initiation and Return, which he calls The Monomyth (Campbell 28), a deep inner journey of transformation that every hero must go through in order to grow (Voytilla vii).
Carl Jung is known for his analytical psychology. He believed all people were connected by their collective unconsciousness, which is populated by archetypes. Archetypes are hidden forms and patterns which every human being experiences. Since they are hidden, it is best to look at mythology and religion do deduce the archetypes. In fact, mythology is full of them. Archetypes such as the patriarch, the young man and the trickster can be found in the Greek gods Zeus, Apollo and Hermes. But, can these archetypes also be deduced from moderns stories, such as Star Wars? In this essay I will explore the impact of the archetype the Shadow on the story of Star Wars.
As the famous psychologist Carl Jung once said, “An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flower, the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return”. This particular quote showcases the significance of archetypes by illustrating how they each run a similar path, much like a watercourse, and brings about the understanding that they are recurring tools used in written work. The concept of archetypes has been around for some time now thanks to psychologists like Jung. A popular example of archetypes in literature is Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, where a young Esther Greenwood recalls her time in
Discovering the meaning and significance of the archetypes in one’s dreams and the dreams themselves were a sort of process that helped lead the individual towards a God. The suffering and process of analyzing the dreams and manifestations of the archetypes was crucial to resolving one’s entire unconscious and thus being at peace with oneself. When this peace was achieved, it allowed the individual to further their religious experience. Jung believed that all humans had a natural religious function and the expression of their unconscious through archetypes and dreams was crucial.
Barry, Peter. "Psychoanalytic criticism." Beginning Theory: an Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. 3rd ed. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009. 92-115. Print.
The story provides many sources for the boy's animosity. Beginning with his home and overall environment, and reaching all the way to the adults that surround him. However, it is clear that all of these causes of the boy's isolation have something in common, he has control over none of these factors. While many of these circumstances no one can expect to have control over, it is the culmination of all these elements that lead to the boy’s undeniable feeling of lack of control.
Psychoanalytic criticism is a term used to describe how and why a person behaves. There are two different types of psychoanalytic criticisms which were developed by Freud and Jung. Freud’s archetypes are the most common in “The Tell Tale Heart.” Freud’s archetypes are displayed throughout “The Tell Tale Heart” by how the narrator shows Id, which is the most dominant, as he kills the old man, Superego, as he shows remorse, and planning to kill displaying Ego.
According to Cambridge Dictionary, the definition of “culture” is “the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time”. On the other hand, accroding to Raymond Williams, it is more complicated. However, ther is something that is certain: Culture is ordinary, which happens to be the title of an article he wrote to define and explain what culture is.