Archetypes In Sunday Sunday

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Every story that is read contains archetypes, which is a certain person or thing that is expressed in stories, myths and many other forms of art and literature. The story of Sunday Sunday has many archetypes within it, but the ones that stand out most are the archetypes of Saving the Enemy, Fog, and Love Angles. These archetypes stand out the most because they are found in many childhood classics like Cars and Beauty and the Beast, making the audience familiar with these types of characters and situations. The reason why archetypes are used is because humans have a collective unconscious meaning that people like what they are used to; therefore whenever a story is written it uses these archetypes to make multiple interpretations of the same …show more content…

This idea is presented in this line of dialogue between the boys, ”’I’m not drunk,’ Miguel insisted. ‘And you’re a phony.‘ ‘You’re p*ssed off because I’m going to see Flora,‘ said Rubén. ‘You’re dying of jealousy. Do you think I don’t catch on to things?’“ (251). In this scene the two boys, Miguel and Rubén, dispute over their same love interest Flora. When Rubén says, “You’re p*ssed off because I’m going to see Flora” it shows the first fight between the two over the girl and it makes the two boys enemies which is shown in the first archetype discussed when Miguel overcomes this argument and saves Rubén’s life. A similar archetype to this is in Beauty and the Beast when The Beast and Gaston both love Belle but she does not make it clear who she is in love with at first. The idea of the Love Angles is supposed to show how two character have a love interest on the same character like Rubén and Miguel do on Flora and the love interest, Flora, does not show who she likes. This is so easy for us to understand because we have seen this archetype many times before and if not in Beauty and the Beast, there still is Bridget Jones’s Baby, The Fifth Wave, and The Book of Life; therefore strengthening the idea that archetypes make it so there are …show more content…

Sunday Sunday shares archetypes with other stories like Saving the Enemy with Cars, or The Fog with The Book Thief, or Love Angles with Beauty and the Beast which just shows that there are no new stories since these same archetypes are being repeated over and over again in different interpretations of stories. However, this is not a bad thing because people like what they are used to, since they have a collective unconscious, which is why archetypes exist; so that every story can be enjoyable and understood by people. Archetypes are one of the most important parts of the story because they are what the people like and what the people like is familiarity which is why there are no new

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