Journey Into The Underworld Archetype

When asked to write about a monster who portrays the Freudian Personality Theory, I immediately thought about one of my favorite Christmas movies, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. The Grinch came to my mind because of how he depicts the Freudian id, ego and superego. While a child usually would not pick up on this certain behavior, now as I am older, it is very evident that the Grinch is a perfect example.

Hey! You! Yeah, you. You should go on a kamikaze mission so you can join the armies of the dead! Hades is the god of the dead, and he is in charge of The Underworld. In addition he is the keeper of the paths by which the dead come to him. Hades (sometimes called Pluto) was the oldest of three brothers, who were Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. In this paper we will be hitting on the origin of Hades, the division of power between the three brothers, and what people thought of Hades as a deity overall (GreekMythology.com).

2. Looking at the candle before me, it was hard to imagine that it was made from the tallow of a sheep.

The various characters demonstrate an understanding of certain psychological quirks attached to their respective archetype. For example, Dunstan’s introversion makes him susceptible to become the “Fifth Business,” while his mentality of being the confidant forces him to keep secrets regardless of who is being told or whom the secret is from. Percy’s obsession for power shows the lack of psychological development to gain emotion, becoming emotionally stunted and naive. Mrs. Dempster’s saint archetype as seen by Dunstan is to an extreme degree, to the point where she seemingly does anything to help, often coming off as a miracle worker. Such archetypes have their effects on each individual’s thoughts and behaviour, and the reason that Davies is able to represent these archetypes is due to the fact that these psychological characteristics take part in our everyday life in the people we meet. This allows the readers to better understand the characters as they are able to connect these characters with people they know in real life. It is important to recognize that the thoughts build the person, and the theme of psychology focuses on just that. As a result of this, Davies does an excellent job in representing each of the characters as their own

The Devil and Ms. Prym and District 9 There are many things that be taken out of the book and the movie that to apply to real life. All are full of actual life lessons and ways of thinking, other than it just being another boring book you have to read for class and an alien massacre movie. To look past this and find the real character battles, philosophies, and archetypes in the two stories one must dig deeper. After reading the book and watching the movies it can be concluded there are many similar and different examples of these throughout each.

To consider the psychological states of the main characters that we are trying to understand "which concepts are operating in the text in such a way as to enrich our understanding of the work and, if we plan to write a paper about it, to yield a meaningful, coherent psychoanalytic interpretation" (Tyson 29) and to see if there is any "Jungian criticism," which "is generally involved with a search for the embodiment of these symbols within particular works of art" (Richter 505).

From the colors of the tiger in Cinnamon and the garden in Instructions to the black door in Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman is able to create a story where every color, setting, and word can be used to describe a deeper meaning in the story. Symbols allow a reader to make connections between Gaiman’s writings to a more simple writing they have read in the past; these symbols allow the author to describe a character or setting indirectly. Archetypes allow the complexity of Gaiman’s writing to be understood by the average reader; Gaiman uses many symbols because many of his works have two meanings one in which is hidden the text. Neverwhere has many different archetypal characters which allows to find similarities between Gaiman’s characters and the

When examining various cultural myths, one archetype keeps repeating—the image of the quest. This archetype functions with various different mythologies as a method of learning about the world, both its external features and what is inside the self. The quest comes from ancient origins and is found in Classical Western culture, but has been fine tuned through the generations. In its most modern interpretations, there are continuing elements of the age old myth, where extenuating circumstances or hubris, place the hero in turmoil and needing to find an answer. Having additional sexual charges, it is clear that through the quest, adulthood is not only reached but embraced. This answer represents a completeness of being,

Dante’s Inferno is a narrative poem, with a very complicated rhyme scheme, originally written in Italian. It documents the author’s, Dante, trip through hell, where he learns how hell is organized and the way in which sinners are punished. Dante is guided by the great poet Virgil, who leads him throughout hell. The Odyssey, is an epic authored by the Greek, Homer. The epics centers on Odysseus’ protracted journey home. The protagonist, Odysseus, visits the underworld for a very short amount of time. The two literary works contain many common elements, such as characters being punished, the protagonists interacting with those in the underworld, repeating characters, and the misery of the underworlds. There are also differences

Neil Gaiman in his work “How to Talk to Girls at Parties,” the reader gathers the underlying messages behind the story by picking out the wants and desires of the characters. Employed by Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis of literature was meant to understand literature in a deeper more unconscious meaning. Freud used three labels to define characters or entities in a story: the id, ego, and superego. Freud also used an application of psychology to literature in order to understand the psyche of the author and or the story’s characters. In determining psyche the reader must point out the character’s desires, the character’s conflicts with himself or herself, the character’s conflicts with others in the story, as well as the character’s thoughts.

Character development within novels with complex plot structures proves to be a difficult task necessitating the author to add their own inner thoughts and experiences to weave a more realistic story. The historical background of a writer helps glean on information about that person’s unconscious and subconscious processes that become apparent within an author’s literature. As the author develops their thoughts throughout a novel attempting to paint a clearer picture of their purpose, their own persona becomes a part of the literature. Psychoanalytic theory attempts to further this claim by taking information from one’s childhood, inner taboo thoughts and hidden motivations, and synthesizing them for a better picture of the author’s

A third article is from Donald Hasse, who states the "premiss's that the stories are symbolic expressions of the human mind and emotional experience." This means the psychological approach involves symbolic interpretation. Hasse also talks about Jungian, who says the

The expressions of the characters, caused by their surrounding, is also a factor that can alter the psychological traits in a character. The Man states “He does not trust his dreams, believing that they are "the call of languor and of death” (McCarthy 15).The man has a vivid

The ancient Greeks portrayed the underworld as a place for all the dead and clearly visualized it in their myths and legends.

Marlow is a reflection of the meeting of oneself within an archetype. His personal reflections of himself demonstrate what archetype he represents. He exemplifies the archetype of a traveler attempting to recognize his own inner workings (similar to the ambitions of Freud, Jung, and Conrad alike).