American writer Ring Lardner established himself as one of the premiere satirists in American history. Specializing in baseball stories, he also created numerous short stories throughout his career. His use of the vernacular became one of the most iconic traits of his writing. In addition, his writing relates to the archetypal literary criticism. The archetypal literary criticism centers itself around archetypes. Archetypes represent the first model of something. Writer and literary expert Elémire Zolla explains archetypes appear as patterns and exist in an intangible fashion. Another interpretation describes them as patterns of “instinctual behavior” (LaLlave and Gutheil). In literary terms, they appear in the form of characters, traditions, events, stories, or images existent in other works. Regardless of different cultures or time periods, archetypes remain present in literature. The writing of Ring Lardner contains literary archetypes. In particular, he incorporates both character archetypes and situational archetypes. Character archetypes demonstrate recurring personalities throughout literature, such as the hero and the villain. Situational archetypes represent elements of social behavior or life experienced by people all throughout history. Examples of them include “the quest” and “love.” Two of Lardner’s short stories, …show more content…
Julie loves Doc but not Jim. Jim becomes displeased with this, so he pranks her out of spite (Lardner 16). Similar situations appear in the real world as part of the human experience. If multiple people love someone, they often engage in conflict with each other in order to win over the person. This dilemma between Doc and Julie looks like something one would see in the real world. It teaches love and conflict sometimes go hand-in-hand with one another. Archetypes exist in “Haircut,” and they also appear in Lardner’s other short story, “The Golden
Archetypes refer to the persistently recurring symbols or motifs in literature. The term itself has its origins in ancient Greek and continues to play a prominent role in analyzing literature. Archetypal images and story patterns encourage readers to participate ritualistically in basic beliefs, fears, and anxieties of their age. These archetypal features not only constitute the eloquence of the text but also tap into a level of desires and concerns of civilization. The Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney, integrates many of the common archetypes that still exist today. The outcast archetype is one that particularly expressed the desires, anxieties and values of the people who lived during the Beowulf era. Grendel, a character of monstrous appearance and hazily human emotion, is portrayed as the principal outsider in Beowulf. The incorporation of a banished character against his fellow society effectively expressed the anxiety and fears that the Anglo-Saxon culture felt towards seclusion and abnormality, caused by a societal absorption in family lineage and traditionalism.
archetype is very typical example of a person or a thing. Carlson’s most important characteristic
Consistent in literature throughout every era and culture, archetypes represent a recurring image, pattern, or motif mirroring a typical human experience. An idea developed by Carl Jung, archetypes in literature exist as representations reflecting vital perceptions of the human psyche expressing the manner in which individuals experience the world. Using Jung’s concept, writers of all epochs embeds archetypes in structures, characters, and images of their narratives. John Gardner, in his novel Grendel, integrates several of Jung’s archetypes into his epic tale derived from the early story Beowulf. Gardner associates Jung’s personas of the outcast, the shadow, and the mentor-pupil relationship through the identities of Grendel, the narrator of events, and the dragon.
In the novel Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, he uses archetypes to connect the reader to every person whose has ever existed. By adding these archetypes to his work, it helps the reader connect to the novel and it helps us associate with the human experience. Through his experience as a writer, he found his own way of writing. Anaya can relate to many other authors in the way that they try to write a story from their roots and what their childhood was like, not like all the American books they are used to reading. Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, and Chinua Achebe all have a similar way of writing because they all include archetypes in their literature to connect us as humans.
Have you ever wondered what kind of archetype you are? Well you are probably wondering what is an archetype, well an archetype is a type of characteristic. William Blake wrote two poems using archetypes. They were The Lamb and The Tyger. In these poem he compared people's characteristics to these poems. The characteristic that Blake wanted us to realize in The Lamb is that the lamb is innocence . Also what Blake wants us to know about the tyger is that he is experienced. William Blake wants us to know about the archetypes that are represented in Lamb and Tyger.
Archetypes are recurring symbols that represent certain a thing. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou illustrates that there many different types of archetypes and they could be good and evil. These archetypes can be seen through Momma, Maya’s belief that being white is good, and the stylistic techniques and conventions that are used.
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Imagine reading a prominent piece of literature that includes a substantial array of archetypes. These archetypes in this piece of literature fabricate the characters in the plot to a great extent and unravel an amazing tale of love and tragedy that appeal to twenty-century Americans. This stunning literary piece, known as Romeo and Juliet, is written by the great mind of Shakespeare. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses numerous conventional archetypes such as, star-crossed lovers, tragic hero, and mentor to create archetypal characters, therefore making Romeo and Juliet important to twenty-first century American readers.
Archetypal criticism is a type of critical perspective that focuses on symbols found in texts. These symbols are said to represent ideas that would otherwise go unexplained. Archetypes, which are “typical characters, actions, or situations that seem to represent such universal patterns of human nature,” (Literary Devices), can be found in recurring themes, motifs, characters, and even in settings. This criticism is very similar to psychological criticism because Carl Jung refined Freud’s idea of a social archetype into a philosophy that spans across all cultures. Jung, the founder of archetypal criticism, formulated the idea that everyone has a “collective unconscious” meaning that there are some ideas that are common to all cultures and can appear in myths or dreams.
A collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, is known as an Archetype. All human beings develop an archetype throughout their lifetime. The archetype can be developed and influenced by outside sources such as your family, your gender, your culture, your friends and the media. There are many variations of archetypes that a person can be, depending on how they were influenced during there whole life. A person can be the innocent, the orphan/regular guy or gal, the hero, the caregiver, the explorer, the rebel, the lover, the creator, the jester, the sage, the magician, and the ruler. The sage archetype represents me perfectly as it matches my fears, my characteristics and the qualities that come from my favourite colour.
An archetype can also explain antagonistic characters like the shadow or the destroyer, but what I am going to write about is the trickster archetype. The definition of a trickster is “a rebel who refuses to conform to societal expectations, but he is not a rebel without a cause” (Jung). Sometimes the trickster may very well appear to be minor character in a story. The most famous character is the Fool in Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. The Fool character actually is very wise and street smart. In fact, it takes a fair amount of studying to enhance his wisdom which helps him come up with a series of riddles, puns, and puzzles. The Fool is not the cause of capturing King Lear yet is viewed as the wisest character in the play. In some stories, the trickster can also be someone who causes trouble for their amusement or to teach the hero a lesson. (Jung)
According to Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, the word “Archetype” is described as “mental forms whose presence cannot be explained by anything in the individual’s own life and which seem to be aboriginal, innate, and inherited shapes of the human mind”. Jung was the first man to define this word, stating that the word archetype, in other words, are common types of characters whose appearance we see in mythology and everyday life. Although it is true, archetypes have been presented from ancient myths to the age of modern man. In Greek mythology, they were used to represent the gods and goddesses, who had different qualities and experiences. Nowadays, the use of archetypes remains very similar, since it classifies modern man according
When looking at popular books and films as consumers we cannot help but see similarities, most commonly we see the brooding hero, the damsel in destress, and the evil villain. Whether it is a more modern story like Stranger Things or something older like Sir Gawain and The Green Knight we continue to see variations on of these characters. Psychologist Carl Jung noticed this and in the late 1910’s, Jung went on to produce many books on his findings. Over the span of these woks it was explained that these similarities were to be called Archetypes. Jung explains that Archetypes are not just limited to film and books, but rather that they appear just as regularly in our everyday lives. Jung also goes on to explan that there are many different types
Throughout history, there have always been stories. From the myths of ancient civilizations long since past to today’s epic blockbuster movies, civilizations have used stories not only as entertainment, but as a way to convey ideas, or to pass down oral history through the generations. However, over time, as we look through these myths, books, movies, and other mediums, we find a common similarity in many of them. We find repeated patterns of situations, characters, and other parts. The patterns have been classified as “archetypes.” For instance, one of the archetypes we often see in myths, books, and movies is the “outcast.” The outcast is one who has been exiled from his home to wander the world without rest.
The first theory to be discussed is structuralism, this theory is composed of many different branches. The branches that this paper will be looking into is archetypes. The definition of of archetype is typical images, characters, narrative designs and themes and other literary phenomena. Archetypes have their own form of criticism that is called archetypal criticism. Archetypal criticism means the generic, recurring and conventional elements in literature that cannot be explained through historical influence or tradition.