Archetypes

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Archetypes Stereotypes

• The Literature Based Research Paper

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How do you feel when you're hanging out with your
best friend? Your funny cousin? Your grumpy
boss?

• People affect our moods and feelings every day.
  Characters, who are written to take on a life of
  their own, affect the mood of other characters in
  the story. Authors often model characters after
  people, not necessarily people who have lived or
  are living authors combine characteristics that
  we know to be true in human nature.
• We recognize certain personality types in the
  people in our lives and in the characters in our
  literature.

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We all know someone who is

• a clown
• a romantic
• a hard worker
• a bossy tyrant
• a leader
• These people embody certain characteristics.

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What have you been labeled as?

What are five characteristics of your group?

• How do people decide upon these labels?
• Do the labels represent the individuals fully?

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Archetypes are mental fingerprints revealing the
details of a persons personality

• The archetype tells the reader about the most
  basic instincts of the hero how he thinks, how
  he feels, what drives him and why he chooses both
  his goals and his methods.

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Stereotypes and Archetypes

• Stereotypes are flat
• Based only on surface characteristics

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Archetypes

• Archetypes are rich
• Archetypes are a skeleton on which the author
  builds the flesh and soul of the character.
• Shakespeare used the blueprint of the lover when
  he created Romeo, but he enriched the character
  with unique characteristics, such as his loyalty
  to Mercutio. Characters have many layers, but the
  archetype is often the root of their actions in a
  story.

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Your task?

• Exploring archetypes

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Joseph Halls Characters of Vertues and Vices
(1608)

• The busybody.
• The superstitious.
• The profane.
• The malcontent.
• The unconstant.
• The flatterer.
• The slothful.
• The covetous.
• The vainglorious.
• The presumptuous.
• The distrustful.
• The ambitious.
• The unthrift.
• The envious.

• The wise man.
• The honest man.
• The faithful man.
• The humble man.
• A valiant man.
• The patient man.
• The true friend.
• The truly Noble.
• The good magistrate.
• The penitent.
• The hypocrite.

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The character of the wise man.

• THERE is nothing that he desires not to know but
  most and first, himself and not so much his own
  strength as his weaknesses.
• Neither is his knowledge reduced to discourse,
  but practice.
• Every care hath his just order neither is there
  any one either neglected or misplaced.
• He loves to be guessed at, not known and to see
  the world, unseen and when he is forced into the
  light, shows, by his actions, that his obscurity
  was neither from affectation nor weakness.

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The character of the wise man.

• He is both an apt scholar and an excellent
  master for both every thing he sees informs him,
  and his mind, enriched with plentiful
  observation, can give the best precepts.
• In all his just and worthy designs he is never at
  a loss, but hath so projected all his courses
  that a second begins where the first failed, and
  fetcheth strength from that which succeeded not.
• He confineth himself in the circle of his own
  affairs, and lists not to thrust his finger into
  a needless fire.

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The character of the wise man.

• Finally, his wit hath cost him much, and he can
  both keep and value and employ it. He is his own
  lawyer, the treasury of knowledge, the oracle of
  counsel blind in no man's cause, best sighted in
  his own.

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• Your Homework Complete the body map for an
  archetype in both Hamlet and a main character for
  your outside reading novel! You will want to
  print out your archetype info this will be a
  source!

http//darkwing.uoregon.edu/rbear/hallch.htm
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The Assignment . . .
Choose an archetype from Halls work and trace
its development from the 17th century in
Shakespeares Hamlet through literature and media
of the modern era. Discuss how your archetype is
illustrated both in Shakespeares play and in
contemporary sources. Finally, analyze how the
archetype has adapted or how societys perception
of it has altered and what this alteration
implies about our cultural values.
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• Everything must be fiction!
• You must address whether or not the archetype
  stays the same or changes!

• Due Dates TBA
• Thesis and ROUGH outline Rough Draft Final
  Draft

Lots of choices here
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Remember . . .

• What the character does is not the defining
  element. The defining element is WHY the
  character does what he does. 
• Any archetype can do anything   the question
  will always be why.
•  Archetypes are not stereotypes they are not
  cookie cutters. They can be considered a
  framework, or even better, a lump of clay of a
  particular color and consistency.  

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Sample Thesis Statements

• Name the archetype
• Changed/Stayed the Same
• Media
• From 17th century to Today

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Sample Thesis Statements

• The Ambitious Man has not only adapted to fit the
  ever-changing trends of the modern era but also
  established a desire for variation in today's
  society.

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• The archetype of the Malcontent has remained
  prevalent throughout literature and has continued
  to transition to meet society's need for change
  for centuries on end.

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• The adaptation of the envious archetype portrayed
  by seventeenth century literature through today's
  contemporary literature implies society's
  exceptional need for change.

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• The Honest Man archetype has been used for
  decades, and will continue to be used in the
  future as it evolves along with society.

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• The Ambitious Man has not only adapted to fit the
  ever-changing trends of the modern era but also
  established a desire for variation in today's
  society.

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• Although society's definition of ambition has
  changed, the ambitious archetype remains
  virtually untouched since the early 17th century.