1. To Do: Get Ready For Warm-up.
Tuesday, September 16th
To Do:
Get Ready For Warm-up.

2. Archetype
A typical character, action, or situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature.
The prototype for a story, character, or idea from which all others are copied or modified.
Developed in part by:
Kant, Plato, and Schopenhauer
Carl Jung – Swiss psychiatrist ( )
Joseph Campbell – American mythologist ( )
Focused on the Hero archetype and the Hero’s Journey

3. Jung and the “Collective Unconscious”
Universal, archaic patterns and images
Inherited or shared experiences of a race or culture
Ex: The idea that “the dark” is scary might stem from our ancestral experiences of being more vulnerable at night.

4. Campbell and the Hero’s Journey

5. Archetypal Characters
The hero (Odysseus, Harry Potter, Neo)
The mother (Fairy Godmother, Mary Poppins, Molly Weasley)
The father (Obi-wan, Silas Marner, Alfred)
The villain (The Emperor, Moriarty, Hannibal Lecter)
The trickster (Loki, Raven, Coyote, Jack Sparrow, The Doctor)
The mentor (Yoda, Athena, Dumbledore)
The child/innocent (Luna, Sandy, Mowgli, Tarzan)

6. Archetypal Events Birth Life Death Marriage Coming of Age/Initiation
Separation from Parents

7. Big Archetypes The Creation The Deluge The Apocalypse
The Hero’s Journey
Good Deity
Evil Deity

8. Hero Archetype Note Cards
Archetype Character
Quest: The goal of the journey
Fear: A motivating factor for the journey or the principal danger
Dragon: The obstacle or enemy
Task: What the hero must accomplish to be successful at the quest
Virtue: Success grants the hero these rewards (material or immaterial)
Hero: Odysseus
Quest: To return to Ithaca
Fear: Is his family alive and well? Will Odysseus die without having tales sung about his exploits?
Dragon: Hubris and Poseidon
Task: Suffer for years, defeat the suitors
Virtue: Wealth from the Phoenicians, reputation for defeating the suitors, and the reinstatement as ruler

9. Epic Simile Also known as a “Homeric Simile”
Detailed comparison in the form of a simile that is many lines in length
Often occur at a moment of high action or emotion
Ex:
"The attackers struck like eagles, crook-clawed, hook-beaked, swooping down from a mountain ridge to harry smaller birds that skim across the flatland cringing under the clouds but the eagles plunge in fury, rip their lives out--hopeless, never a chance of flight or rescue--and people love the sport-- so the attackers routed suitors headlong down the hall, wheeling into the slaughter, slashing left and right and grisly screams broke from skulls cracked open-- the whole floor awash with blood."

10. Epithet
A short, poetic nickname--often in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase--attached to the normal name
Characterizes an individual or setting with poetic nature
The Homeric epithet in classical literature often includes compounds of two words such as, "fleet-footed Achilles," "Cow-eyed Hera," "Grey-eyed Athena," or "the wine-dark sea."
In other cases, it appears as a phrase, such as "Odysseus the man-of-many-wiles," or whatnot.

11. Allusion
What are the four types of ALLUSION?
What do they reference?

12. Ticket Out of the Door
On a piece of paper, write a current cultural reference to an archetypal character or event and label which archetype it falls under.
Have a terrific Tuesday!