1. ARCHETYPES OF LIFE FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO QUEST LITERATURE AND BACK AGAIN

2. RESPOND IN YOUR NOTES: What patterns of life (situations, thoughts, emotions) do all humans experience? Give specific examples and explain why all people experience them.

3. HOW DO THEY FIT ON HERE?

4. HOW ABOUT HERE?

5. WHAT IS AN ARCHETYPE? Archetypos (Gr) = “original pattern” In literature: A recurring image, character, or pattern of circumstances that is thought to be universal. (in other words = a universal motif)

6. “First-Molded” (Greek) Genesis 2:7: God made Adam out of “dust from the ground.” Humans = “in God’s image” Plato = Ideal Forms ἀ ρχέτυπος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek- English Lexicon, on Perseus

7. Plato’s allegory of the cave We are prisoners chained in a cave, looking at a wall Everything we see = just shadow of the true (original) FORM Archetype = IDEAL FORM

9. WHAT IS BEAUTY? Plato: Everything “beautiful” that we see is a SHADOW of the IDEAL FORM of Beauty…

10. BACK TO DREAMS Jung’s “Collective Unconsciousness” = dream/memory/instinct part of mind that ALL people share Reflects common ARCHETYPES: universal Images / ideas Example: Arthur’s Dream

11. ARCHETYPAL CHARACTERS?

12. SITUATIONAL ARCHETYPE = QUEST Quest = search/pursuit In Arthurian romance: search/expedition to achieve a goal Goal has deeper moral significance

13. ARCHETYPES WITHIN THE QUEST ARCHETYPE Quest -Call to Adventure -Crossing the Threshold (Departure) - Trails -Trails by 3 (Bedivere, St. Peter) -Tempted away from Quest (Circe) -Death & Rebirth (Crisis) -Atonement (New Life)

14. IN YOUR NOTES, WRITE A MODERN-DAY SCENARIO FOR ONE OF THESE STAGES 1: Call to Adventure 2: Crossing the Threshold (Departure) 3: Help along the Way 4: Temptation 5: Death & Rebirth (Crisis) 6: Atonement (New Life)

15. GROUP SCENARIOS -With your group, prepare to act out a scenario (~2 minutes) -Not everyone needs to talk, but everyone should act out a part -Connect scenario to Hero’s Journey -Draw on every day experience (Be creative!)

16. ROLES MC: Intro/Conclusion Set Manager: Setting and Staging Script Writer: Script Narrator: Premise / Characters Turn in 4 written parts at end of class **All Group Members Act**

17. REFLECTION How do archetypes help us better understand our lives?