Literary Terms and Definitions A
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- Cburell on 2006-10-03 - Tags ap , literature , rhetoric , writing
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ARCHETYPE: An original model or pattern from which
other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation
that seems to represent common patterns of human life. Often, archetypes include
a symbol, a theme, a setting, or a character that some critics think have a
common meaning in an entire culture, or even the entire human race. These images
have particular emotional resonance and power. Archetypes recur in different
times and places in myth, literature, folklore, fairy tales, dreams, artwork,
and religious rituals. Using the comparative anthropological work of Sir James
Frazer's The Golden Bough, the psychologist Carl Jung theorized that
the archetype originates in the collective
unconscious of mankind, i.e., the shared experiences of a race or
culture, such as birth, death, love, family life, and struggles to survive and
grow up.
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