Use of Archetypes in MoviesKomal ShahedadpuriM.A English Sem-2 Roll no -14Enrolment number-2069108420170027komaltara1311@gmail.com Submitted to Smt, S B Gardi Dept. Of English, MK Bhavnagar University Topic- Archetypal CriticismBatch- 2016-2018 Paper no -7 Literary Theory and Criticism Western-2

What is Archetypal Criticism?Archetypal Criticism is a

critical theory which interpret text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narratives designs, images, symbols, themes, pattern of action and character types in literary works.

‘The Golden Bough’ by George Frazer is an anthropological origin of archetypal criticism.

What is Archetype?

Archetypes were first suggested by Carl Jung, he applied this term to ‘primordial images’ of repeated patterns of experience in ancient ancestors which survives in our ‘collective unconsciousness’.

A Skeleton (original model) of Literature is similar but bodies are different. We have same raw material but we cook it in different way.

Pattern of thought, image etc..that is universally present in individual psyche like story of Romeo and Juliet being a raw material for many literature and movies.

Archetypal

Patterns

SeasonsSymbols

Characters

Under The Tuscan Sun

Five Spheres Human Comic Wish-fulfillment and community centered. Tragic Isolation, tyranny and the fallen hero. Animals Comic Docile and pastoral like Sheep and Dogs Tragic Predatory and Hunters

VegetationComic Pastoral like

gardens, parks, roses and

lotuses.Tragic Wild forest and

Barrenness Mineral Comic Cities, temples, or

precious stones. Tragic Desert and

ruined place.

The BarrensChennai Express

Water

Comic Rivers as a source of happiness

Tragic Seas and specially

Floods became cause of sadness.

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