Archetype occur in books ,movies ,and plays. Archetypes can relate to the real world. Archetypes can effect almost everyone like David and Alan. In the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour is a teenager when his father and mother die. Then David learns that he has an inheritance to the House of Shaws. When David goes to the house to collect his inheritance, his uncle hires someone to kidnap David and he is sent off to be sold into slavery and not get his inheritance. While on his way to be sold into slavery, David and Alan breck fight against the crew. Both David and Alan kill a total of 13 or more crew members. Then David and Alan have to make their journey back home. While on the way Alan and David get accused of murdering …show more content…
David grow up as the novel evolves and David becomes an adult. David faces many challenges before he becomes a adult. David has to see what the real world is like. The first challenge that David faces is his uncle selling him into slavery" My uncle turned around where he was sitting ,and showed me a face full of cruelty and terror ... I saw a great flash of fire ,and fell senseless" (Stevenson 36). David has to experience the world. David has to learn from people ,terror and cruelty. David experiences his uncle's betrayal of him and David has to fight his way into growing up. David has to defend himself from people like his uncle and have friends that he counts on. David experiences hard ship but as he is experiencing, hardship he grows up. David, on his way to be get sold into slavery, meets Alan. Alan also shows him how to defend himself. Alan helps him overcome the kidnapping. When David is on the ship with Alan seeing," The floor with broken glass and horrible mess of blood" (Stevenson 64). David's fights make him have courage and strength to become an adult. David grows up by over coming the kidnaping and making a big journey home. David becomes an adult by not getting tricked and claiming his inheritance. David finds help to claim his inheritance and gets his uncle back for selling him into …show more content…
Alan also thinks of high of himself. Alan thinks high of himself when he introduces himself," Alan breck, they call me. A king's name is good enough for me, though I bear it plain and have no farm midden to clap to mind end of it " (Stevenson 55). Alan hold a king name he says and he talks his name up. He takes pride for his name. Alan also is a dashing rogue archetype because he has killed before. On the ship , The Covenant," as I turned back to my place, I saw him pass his sword though the mate's body" (Stevenson 59). Alan fights the ship mates killing thirteen of them. Alan goes wild on the ship mates trying to kill him. The floor was covered in blood David describes. Alan was a "dashing rogue" because if not then why was the floor covered in blood. Alan is a blood thirsty character by him having so many weapons on him during the ship. David had two guns and he had a sword. That shows that he is a very skilled fighter. If he was not a skilled fighter, then why did he have all of the guns. Alan had on a French uniform meaning that he was trained to fight. When David looking seeing Alan describing him saying," Alan was driving them along the deck as a sheep dog chases sheep"(Stevenson 62). David describes Alan as a dog chasing sheep. Alan was not afraid of the ship mates. Alan was willing to kill because he chased them not the ship mates chasing him. Alan was outnumbered but he killed all of them that came
Archetypes are found in every story that has been told; although stories may seem unique in their premise, every single story is actually interconnected in several ways by archetypes. Recurring themes are found in stories with even the most dissimilar settings and protagonists. In “Momotaro: Boy-of-the-Peach” and “Theseus”, several of the same archetypes are found, though the protagonists possess different goals and experiences. These archetypes include a valiant hero, an evil villain, and the hero undergoing a quest to defeat this villain. The “hero” archetype is especially prevalent among media.
"The Devil and Tom Walker" is a short story by Washington Irving that many wonder about. It teaches a lesson and has many archetypes in the characters. In literature, an archetype is a typical character, a type of action, or a situation that leads to the representation of such universal patterns of human nature. An archetype may be a character, a theme, a symbol or it can even be a setting. Tom walker is the protagonist of the story he is the main character.
When analyzing literature from an archetypal perspective, one does not simply look at the character’s behavior in that literary piece. Rather, when using the archetypal theory, one connects the traits and actions of the characters in the literary work, the settings, the surroundings, and the situations to a familiar type of literary character. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the characters Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Reverend Hale exhibit common archetypal behavior and fit into a certain archetypal figure.
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.
The author is attempting to teach the readers that no one should treat people this badly. David is an innocent child and does not deserve his bad childhood. David does not even do anything wrong, and his mother continued to treat him like an object. Pelzer succeeded in telling how cruel the mother is. He also teaches that people can be cruel to each other, and that it is important to teach people that kindness can go a long way. The whole book discusses his childhood. Pelzer wrote some sequels to tell the rest of his child life for the interested readers.
1. In the book, the father tries to help the son in the beginning but then throughout the book he stops trying to help and listens to the mother. If I had been in this same situation, I would have helped get the child away from his mother because nobody should have to live like that. The father was tired of having to watch his son get abused so eventually he just left and didn’t do anything. David thought that his father would help him but he did not.
An archetype is a model of a character, that reflects what everyday people believe how a character should look or act in a situation. Archetypes help the reader easily understand a character’s purpose, and follow commonly accepted universal traits. Two recognizable archetypes include The Villain and The Hero. In the book Highly Illogical Behavior, Lisa Praytor is willing to do anything to be accepted into a psychological college. She uses the town hermit, who is known as Solomon Reed to promote herself for college acceptance. Lisa’s decisions and behavior present her as The Manipulator, (a person who plays with people, situations, or opportunities to get what they want) who is self-absorbed, determined, and underhanded.
How Does Robert Louis Stevenson use literary techniques to illustrate the social, historical and moral points he is trying to make in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Throughout the Novella, ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, the author Robert Louis Stevenson uses a wide range of literary techniques in a skilful and sophisticated way to help achieve his effects and put his points across. Stevenson’s unique use of language is vital to the success of the Novella, with the structural and linguistic devices playing a vital part in creating the unusual atmosphere, which makes the Novella so successful. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde centres upon a conception of humanity as dual in nature, although the theme does not emerge fully until the last chapter, when the complete story of Jekyll – Hyde relationship is revealed. Robert Louis Stevenson had a very strict moral upbringing living in the nineteenth century, where class and social standing were very important in such a rigid system. The fact that he had such a religious background perhaps creates a link between the main moral point of good and evil and his disciplined religious upbringing, the bible teaching the importance of good and evil, and the seven deadly sins.
In literature, Archetypal Criticism is a critical approach where the reader interprets the meaning of a story by looking at the archetypal characters, events, and symbols that it contains. In general, an archetype is a universal, primordial representation of an event or character that is seen as a general blueprint for stories and myths, such as the Hero or Death and Rebirth (Meyer 1587). Archetypes can be very important in identifying and supporting a theme by giving us background and references for aspects throughout the story. Carol Joyce Oates uses a couple vital archetypes in her short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” a tale about Connie, a teenage girl, who goes through an innocence to experience situation, signifying a transition from childhood to adulthood.
An archetype in literature is defined as a typical example of a certain type of person. A character in a poem or play can be placed into many different archetype categories. Archetypes help a reader to gain a better understanding of who a character in the work is on the inside. This deeper insight into the character allows the reader to follow the flow of the story easier and more effectively. There are many different archetypes that can help to advance the story. One of the most useful in advancing this story is the typical powerful character. Whether it be supernatural or cunningness this character always comes out on top in the situation and holds the most control over others and their actions. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”,
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Mrs. Stevenson, an invalid lady who is waiting at her home impatiently for her husband to come back home from work. Leona became querulous and demanding owing to the fact that she overheard a phone call as the operator accidentally dialed the wrong number and hears two men planning on murdering an unidentified, elderly woman. Becoming increasingly frantic and devastated about what had just happened, the operator will not seem to get her to reconnect the phone call of these two unsuspected men, she tries to call the cops, she tries to get that phone call reported. Mrs. Stevenson dejected and miserable, keeps wanting to trace that phone call but cannot happen because she has no evidence of the two men talking. Eventually, miss Stevenson is told
is a fight just to survive for the next day . As a child David is taught a very harsh way of
The Maze Runner is a 2014 mystery/science fiction film that can be viewed from an archetypal perspective. An archetype can be described as a pattern that can and is copied and recurring symbols or characters. The concept of archetypes came from Carl Jung a psychiatrist who believed that all cultures use archetypes to build stories without communicating to each other about them. Two groups of archetypes are the character and symbolic archetypes. The film The Maze Runner should be analyzed through an archetypal perspective because it has character and symbolic archetypes.
Some examples of archetypes are, the wounded child, the victim, the villain, the rebel, the savior, finding redemption, death, and the happy ending. Now that there is an understanding of what an archetype is, we can look at four different archetypes in The Bell Jar. The first archetype in The Bell Jar, is the character of Doreen, who would be seen as the bad girl. She is very easy, not very smart but very pretty, she relates well to the character of Helen of Troy who embodied all of the things she had before. The second example is the character of Esther, she can be seen as the victim and as the heroine.