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The Mythological

and ArchetypalApproachBy: Kristi, Grant, Parth, Ben, and

Shrey


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Mythology

Definition: a set of

stories, traditions, or

beliefs associated

with a particular groupor the history of an

event.

Example of Greek

Mythology


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Mythology (cont.)

Mythology tends to be speculative and

philosophical

such as involving:

religion

anthropology

cultural history

Note: Anthropology is the study of human beings


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Mark Schorer

An American writer,novelist and critic

His definition of myth:

Myth is a fundamental, the

dramatic representationof our deepest instinctuallife, of a primaryawareness of man in theuniverse, capable ofmany configurations,

upon which all particularopinions and attitudedepends. (William Blake:The Politics of Vision 29)


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Alan W. Watts

A philosopher, writer,speaker, and expert incomparative religion

His definition of Myth:

Myth is to be defined as acomplex of storiessome no doubt fact, andsome fantasywhich forvarious reasons, human

beings regard asdemonstrations of theinner meaning of theuniverse and of humanlife. (7)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alan_Watts.jpg


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Archetypes

Archetype: An original model or type after

which other similar things are patterned

:Modifs and images that tend to

elicit comparable psychological responses

and serve similar cultural functions.


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Examples of Archetypes

Water:-mystery of creation

-birth

-death-resurrection

-purification

-redemption

-fertility

-growth

-unconsciousness


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Sea: Symbolizes Mother of all life


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River: Symbolizes death and

rebirth; baptism


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Sun (fire sky)

Sun:

-creative energy

-law in nature

-consciousness

-thinking

-enlightenment


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Setting sun: Symbolizes death


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Colors as

archetypes


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RED Blood

Sacrifice Violent passion

disorder


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GREEN Growth

Sensation

Hope

Fertility


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BLUE Positive

Truth

Religions

feeling


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BLACK

Chaos

Mystery

Unknown

Death

evil


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WHITE

Signifying

Light

Purity

innocence


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A circle is an archetype

Wholeness

Unity

Examples:

-mandala

-yang-yin

- ouroboros


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A Serpent

Symbol of

energy and

pure force


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Numbers asArchetypes


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Light

Spiritual awareness

of unity


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Life circle

4 seasons

Earth

Nature

elements


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Completion of a cycle

Perfect order


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Archetypical Woman

Good mother:

nourishment, growth,

warmth

Terrible mother:witch, fear, danger

Soul mate: beauty


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Archetypal wise old man

Knowledge

Insight

cleverness


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GardenUnspoiled beauty

paradise


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Desert

Death

hopelessness


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Archetypal Motifs and Patterns

Motif: a recurring subject, theme, idea,

etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or

musical work.


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Creation

most fundamental of

motifs

virtually every

mythology is built onsome account of how

the nature was

brought into existence

by some supernaturalbeing or beings


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Immortality

Form 1: escape from

time

Form 2: mystical

submersion into

cyclical time (endless

death)


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Hero Archetypes

The quest: hero undertakes some long

journey where they perform impossible

tasks


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Hero archetypes (cont.)

Initiation: hero under goes ordeals in

passing from ignorance and maturity

3 phases-

1. separation

2. transformation

3. return


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Hero archetypes (cont.)

Sacrificial scapegoat: hero

must die for peoples sins andrestore land to fruitfulness


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Archetypes genres

1. Mythos of spring- comedy

2. Mythos of summer- romance

3. Mythos of fall- tragedy4. Mythos of winter- irony


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To His Coy Mistress Uses archetypes of time and immortality

Stanza 1-

line1 had we but world enough, and time.

Line 8 Love you ten years before the flood.

Line 13 An hundred years should go to praise.

Line 15 two hundred to adore each breast,

Line 16 But thirty thousand to the rest.

Each of these lines refers to their love for each other for allof eternity.

It applies to the archetype motif of immortality in the form ofescaping from time.


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To His Coy Mistress (cont.)

Stanza 2-

Line 22 Times winged chariot hurrying near:

This references to the myth of how a winged chariot comes

to bring one to heaven.

Line 24 Deserts of vast eternity.

Once again this refers to the archetype of escaping from

time


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To His Coy Mistress (cont.)

Stanza 3-

Line 40 Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

Line 46 Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Both of these lines bring up an undefined him. This goesalong with the Greek mythology of one who is above allhumans.

Line 44 Thorough the iron gates of life:The iron gates of life are symbolizing the gates to heaven

in mythology


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A Farewell to Arms

Rain is a major archetype in A Farewell to

Arms.

It is a pattern that whenever it rains there

is death

Pg 4 the narrator tells how it is raining,

then he goes on to say how 7000 people

died of cholera in the army.


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A Farewell to Arms (cont.)

Also, when one of the soldiers is killed by

the mortar shell, the narrator happens to

mention that it is raining.

Furthermore, in the end when Catherine

dies, Frederic leaves the hospital in the

rain


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Throughout the book, it is snowing which

shows that it takes place during the winter

The Archetype genre of winter is irony

Frederic finally finding a woman he cares

about, and for her to just die at the end is

ironic.


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In the book, Frederic jumps in a river to escape

from being shot.

The archetype of a river is death, rebirth, or

baptism. In several critics, critics have questioned his

jumping in the river as a reference to baptism.

However, it could be viewed as rebirth too, since

Frederic is leaving all his friends and tries to

start a new life with him and Catherine.

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