Archetypes

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Archetypes

• Comes from a Greek word meaning exemplary

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Archetypes

• An original model after which other similar
  things are patterned

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Archetypes

• An image, story-pattern, or character type which
  recurs frequently in literature and which evokes
  strong, often unconscious, associations in the
  reader or audience.

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Archetypes

• How many stories have you read where the hero is
  on a quest?
• How many stories have you read where the
  protagonist is a hero and has a mentor?
• How many stories have you read that involve some
  supernatural intervention?

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The Quest

• The search for someone or something that brings
  good fortune (talisman), which, when found, will
  restore the homeland.

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The Task

• To save the kingdom, win the fair lady, identify
  himself so he may take his rightful place in
  society.

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The Initiation

• An adolescent comes to maturity and adulthood
  with all the attendant problems and
  responsibilities.

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The Journey

• Sends the hero in search of information or
  intellectual truth.

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The Fall

• Descent from a higher to a lower state of being
  can involve spiritual defilement and/or loss of
  innocence and bliss.

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Death and Resurrection

• Cycle of nature and the cycle of life can use
  season of year, time of day, phase of moon to
  indicate what stage character is in.

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Fight Between Good and Evil

• Between two primal forces for supremacy.

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The Ritual

• The actual ceremonies that initiate experiences
  that mark the rite of passage into another state.

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The Heros Journey
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The Heros Journey
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The Heros Journey

• The Call to Adventure

• The hero receives a signal that he has outgrown
  his former life and is being summoned to his or
  her next stage of existence.

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The Heros Journey

• Refusal of the Call

• The hero hesitates on the threshold of change.

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The Heros Journey

• Supernatural Aid

• Someone in capacity of mentor provides the hero
  with tool(s) necessary for successful journey.

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The Heros Journey

• Crossing the First Threshold

• The hero must overcome the guardian to the
  entrance of the zone of magnified power.

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The Heros Journey

• The Belly of the Beast

• The hero is swallowed by something unknown to the
  outside world.

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The Heros Journey

• The Road of Trials

• The hero must fight back through a gauntlet of
  ever greater challenges.

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The Heros Journey

• The Meeting with the Goddess

• The triumphant hero is reunited with the earth
  mother.

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The Heros Journey

• Atonement with the Father

• Using the hope derived from the goddess, the hero
  overcomes the terror of the initiation.

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The Heros Journey

• The Ultimate Gift

• Having passed the initiation, the hero has
  unlocked secrets.

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The Heros Journey

• Crossing of the Return Threshold

• The hero returns victorious his success brings
  about positive change for his world.

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COLORS

• as archetypes

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• Gray

• Security, reliability, intelligence, dignity,
  maturity, sadness, boredom

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• Gold/Yellow

• Joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, hope, sunshine

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• Red

• Excitement, energy, passion, speed, strength,
  power, love, danger, blood, war, violence

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• Blue

• Peace, tranquility, calm, stability, harmony,
  unity, innocence

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• White

• Purity, simplicity, cleanliness, peace

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• Green

• Nature, environment, health, good luck, renewal
  jealousy??

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• Purple

• Royalty, spirituality, nobility, wisdom

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• Black

• Power, formality, evil, death

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• Pink

• Combination of red (passion, blood) and white
  (innocence, purity)

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• Orange

• Energy, balance, warmth, enthusiasm, vibrancy