1. Sierra Cappel, Lunia Oriol, and Kae Moulton

2. A mythological critic uses hopes, fears, and expectations set by certain cultures to uncover universal ideas or themes in certain literature. Carl Jung, a psychologist in the 1930’s, to explain that we all share a general subconscious and archetypes are universal Sir James Frazer studied myth from different cultures and found that stories differ from detail to detail but in substance are the same. Northrop Frye founded the principal that all literature share a similar pattern. It has strong connections with social anthropology and psychoanalysis KEY INFORMATION

3. Fears Religion (Water, Rising on the third day, the devil, lambs) Myth (The Odyssey, Gods, Herculean Quest) Explanation Human flaws Colors KEY WORDS

4. Humans respond instinctively to archetypal elements because we, according to psychologist Carl Jung, are born with a “collective unconscious”, a level below the subconscious where the brain collects and stores archetypes. The large variety of archetypes all relate to human flaws and experiences Ignores historical, philosophical, and aesthetic parts of a work Reduces the work to basic plot and character types STRENGTHSWEAKNESSES THE PROS AND CONS

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