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1 Bell-work Before starting your bell-work, please turn in your homework to the white plastic bin on the back shelf! (Make sure your name is on it!) Compare the similarities of a character, setting, event, or overall plot/story from The Children of Odin to another story you are familiar with. Be specific in your details! Why are they alike? Why does one remind you of the other? Write your answer in complete sentences. Students may reference their book.

2 POP QUIZ! Clear your desk or close your books/notes!

3 Archetypes are patterns! We develop/recognize archetypes because of:
Review: Archetypes Archetypes are patterns! We develop/recognize archetypes because of: Psychoanalysis Anthropology As Christians, how do we view or understand archetypes?

4 What is archetypal literary criticism?
Notes: Archetypal literary criticism OR “Identifying and Examining Patterns in Literature” What is archetypal literary criticism? Says that archetypes determine the form and function of literary works. A text's meaning is shaped by cultural and psychological myths. Archetypes are the unknowable (aka “mysterious” or “undefinable”) basic forms presented in repeated images, symbols, or structures.

5 Who’s who in Archetypal Literary Criticism:
Notes: Archetypal literary criticism OR “Identifying and Examining Patterns in Literature” Who’s who in Archetypal Literary Criticism: Maud Bodkin Classical scholar, writer and mythology critic Wrote Archetypal Patterns in Poetry Applied Jung's theory of the collective unconscious to poetry, discovering a deep-seated primitive meaning behind recurring poetic images, symbols, and situations

6 Who’s who in Archetypal Literary Criticism:
Northrop Frye Canadian Literary Critic Categorized his archetypes into comedic and tragic

7 What kinds of Archetypes are there?
Some of the main literary archetypes: Situational Symbolic Character

8 What is a Situational Archetype?
A given experience that a hero or character must endure to move from one place in life to the next Actions and events that add to the plot A common event seen throughout stories in many different genres

9 Symbolic Archetypes The Archetypes Include:
Serve as a representation of a specific person, act, deed, place or conflict. They are easily recognizable but not as common as situational archetypes. The Archetypes Include: Light vs. Darkness Water vs. Desert Heaven vs. Hell The Magic Weapon Innate Wisdom vs. Educated Stupidity Haven vs. Wilderness Supernatural Intervention Fire vs. Ice

10 Character Archetypes A person or being that serves as a representative of a greater ideal Characteristics, actions, abilities, or powers contribute to the archetype characterization

11 Notes: Archetypal literary criticism OR “Identifying and Examining Patterns in Literature”
Analogy: inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike : similarity comparison based on such resemblance

12 Classwork: Bridge Map Relating Factor #1 RF #2 RF #3 RF#4 Story 1

13 Classwork: Bridge Map Example
Mentor Hero Supernatural Aid Villain LOTR Gandalf Frodo Sting Sauron Children of Odin Odin Thor (varies) Hammer Giants Harry Potter Dumbledor Harry Wand Voldemort

14 A visual analogy:


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