Archetype

//__**Archetype**__// (Also known as Prototype)

The original model or pattern from which copies are made, or something is developed from.

It can also be a symbol, theme, or character that has a universal meaning and recurs in myth, literature, folklore, dreams and rituals in different times and places. ( more simply put, universally understood symbol or term) Sarah From the Greek //archetupon//, meaning model or pattern.

Carl Jung, psychologist, describes archetypes in the collective unconscious of mankind.The thoughts and ideas provoked from personal experience of a race, such as birth, death, family, love, hate, struggles, inherited in ones subconscious from ancestors and showed in dreams, myths and literature. TM __//**Examples**//__ - the hero, the courageous figure who's always running and saving the day. - Superman is an example - the outcast, left out of society, on a voluntary basis - the scapegoat, who gets blamed for everything, whether they did it or not - water, is a symbol of life and cleansing - the task, where a character or group of characters is driven to complete a monstrous task - the initiation, where a character is brought into an atmosphere of influence, usually into adulthood Some more examples: -Frankenstein is the archetypal monster -Cinderella is the archetypal princess

__//**References**//__ http://www.enotes.com/literary-terms/archetype http://www.essortment.com/understanding-literary-archetypes-61301.html

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