Kylo Archetypes

Star Wars is an action film, which feature many different archetypes. One of the famous characters from this movie is Han Solo. Han Solo fits the outcast character archetype the best. The outcast archetype is a person who has been banished from normal man. The first part of this could be due to to the character committing a crime of some sort. This relates well with Han Solo because he failed to pay his debt to Jabba. This means he was banned from going near him and his planet. He was nearly killed by a bounty hunter when at a bar, but luckily outsmarted him and killed the hunter. The second part deals with the wandering nature of the character. This also fits incredibly well with Han Solo because this is how Luke found him. He came along

     An archetype is a universal symbol. It is also a term from the criticism that accepts Jung’s idea of recurring patterns of situation, character, or symbol existing universally and instinctively in the collective unconscious of man.

Plato was one of the first known people to talk about the theory of archetypes. His idea was that archetypes were imprinted onto people’s soul and their life played out accordingly. Now though, archetypes are used in movies, literature, and to define the human race. In George Lucas’s Star Wars, archetypes are used deliberately in the story. Lucas modeled many of the characters after the “Jungian” archetypes. Some of the prominent archetypes in Star Wars are “Good vs. Evil”, “Hunting Group of Companions”, and the “Initiate”.

The first archetype that is introduced in the very beginning of the book and continues to effect the plotline is soma and its color. Within the book, soma is seen as a drug that is given out by the world state in order to keep control. Although it is only strawberry ice cream, it is believed to be a drug that can calm and distract the society. It is not so much the soma that is the archetype but the color of the soma; the color pink is made up by mixing red and white. The color red is seen as a intense color that represents danger, anger and passion.

An archetype would be known as a universal symbol, may be a character, a theme or even a setting. In the story Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, the knights of Camelot get confronted by a mysterious figure known as the Green Knight. The Green Knight proposes a challenge on a New Year’s Eve feast for Camelot’s leader or bravest man. Gawain accepts this challenge in which he has to complete to obtain Camelot’s honor. The Green Knight presents himself as a threat to Camelot because of the way he presents himself and his request. Throughout the poem of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, the reader can conclude how a single character can play many archetypal roles.

While this may make characters less relatable, it makes the story and lesson more universal. In the same way that iconography, the use of simplistic symbols to represent people, places, things or ideas, makes characters visually appear less other (McCloud), flat archetypal characters are easier for readers to understand and identify with, especially the protagonists. Because the characteristics of protagonistic archetypes are broad and vague, most people can easily see themselves, at least in part, in the place of that character. On the other hand, the villainous characters are often described in much more detail and with much more specific words. This causes a distancing from and an othering of that character, making that character appear to be nothing like the reader and an inhuman monster. Similarly to the character archetypes established in many fairy tales, the idea of the monomyth gives us a archetypal plot. By loosely using archetypes, or by changing them slightly, authors and screenwriters can create drama in their plot, moral ambiguity in their characters, and inspire questions in their

The novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” uses archetypes to send a warning to the readers about the human condition and the subject of man’s duality. Archetypes are used throughout the story to demonstrate the villain vs. hero and the good vs. evil concept. Dr. Jekyll represents the hero of archetype character while Mr. Hyde is a visually unappealing and evil man. The two contrasting characters are different by choice. Dr. Henry Jekyll is a scientist who goes on journey to find the duality of man and believed in separating evil from good.

One archetype that helps to tell Luke's story is the colors white and black. We see the color white when we see Luke, Obi-Wan, Princess Leia, and the Stormtroopers are dress in white. Lucas uses this archetype to represent light and the good side. But we see see Luke, Obi-Wan, and Princess Leia as the good but aren't the Stormtroopers on the bad side? Well, the Stormtrooper were on the good side in previous episodes, but between episode III and IV, the Stormtroopers were lured onto the dark side. This archetype is central to the heroic cycle stages because it quickly and effectively shows who are on the good side and who are Luke's allies. Since this archetype means light and purity, the viewer knows that the characters containing some sort of white are on the light side of the force, and is able to predict that the characters containing white are

A major archetype that was apparent in both stories was the mentioned idea of Good versus Evil. The symbol was represented by the Chantal’s and Carlos’s

On the other hand, the Archetypal approach does not work as well for me in the area of character development. Certainly, the Archetypal view on characters can offer us an unsatisfying overshadowing and takes us far beyond the aesthetic realms of the literary study. When doing this, it causes someone to seem less important when compared to someone else. This was shown when the narrator used a stereotype that involved grouping of certain individuals, "I could make you redhead, but redheads have a way of turning out pixie-ish, and that would wreck my plot.”(228) Through the view of Archetypal, the colour 'red' is considered to be thought of as fire, death and violent passion. The red connects to the Archetypal women of The Terrible Mother which

There are many patterns in this world, and as people go through life and experience things that most humans do, mankind adheres to many of them. These patterns are called archetypes, and we see many of them portrayed in novels or film. By looking at the Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers directed by Peter Jackson, one can see that the film follows many of the character and symbolic patterns that have stayed constant through millions of years, two of which are the lost soul archetype, and the light versus dark archetype. The audience saw both of these archetypes connect to the basic human experience of losing one’s self and having to stand up for who you are against the evils of the world.

After looking at what the archetype means, we can see how this may affect the characters. In greek mythology “The

Characters are the basis of any story, whether its visually or verbally told. Consequently, any decent movie has characters that draw the audiences’ attention, making them believe they are part of the movie. Without realising, people go through each obstacle an appealing character overcomes sharing the same emotions he or she possesses. An archetype that appeals to the audience in an emotional way is the villain. Villains are associated with darkness and evil, due to their harsh and cruel way of living.

One of the best ways to identify the true nature of a character in a story is by their archetype. Once an archetype is identified for a character, it gives readers an idea of what actions they might take throughout a book. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is no exception to this, exemplifying two specific archetypes. Frankenstein exemplifies the archetypes of creator and monster, which add conflict to the characters.

Archetypes are used in literature to portray a certain meaning, that helps create a better and more meaningful story. The archetypes used can be embedded in the characters, symbols, or even rituals involved in a story. These archetypes can help give deeper meaning to the story by giving a underlying reference to concepts that are used over and over again in literature throughout history. When an author uses an archetype in his or her writing, they link it to many other stories that use that same archetype. Some do this for a reason, to give an underlying meaning, to symbolized something of importance, or even just to make their story more interesting. Many readers may not notice the underlying archetype, but sometimes the author uses them because he or she knows that the reader will.