Archetypal Communities

• Spring represents love, the birth of a hero, resurrection, and the defeat of evil. The romance archetype and is commonly used in dithyrambic and rhapsodic poetry.
• Summer represents triumph, joy, and the peak development point of the hero's life. The comedy, pastoral, and idyll archetype.
• Autumn represents death and downfall. Myths of violent death and isolation are key points of autumn. The tragedy and elegy archetype.
• Winter represents darkness and dissolution. Chaos occurs and the villain is in control. The satire archetype.
• The comic vision of the human world portrays humans as a friendly and orderly community. Common archetypes associated with it are order, friendship, love, and communion.
• The tragic vision of the human world portrays humanity as a tyranny, anarchy, or isolation. It also includes bullying and betrayal.
• Marriage belongs to the comic vision of the human world. While harlots, witches, or any character fitting Jung's "terrible mother" trope belong to the tragic vision.
• The comic vision of the animal world is usually a community of domesticated animals, such as sheep, lambs, or doves (representing peace). The archetype of pastoral images.
• The tragic vision of the animal world involves beasts, birds of prey, wolves, vultures, serpents, dragons, or any dangerous/predatory animal. Usually represents chaos.
• The comic vision of the vegetable world (plants) involves gardens, groves, parks, roses, lotuses, or even a tree of life.
• The tragic vision of the vegetable world involves sinister forests, heaths, wilderness, and dead plants.
• The comic vision of the mineral world is usually represented by a city, one building, a temple or a glowing stone. Can be considered luminous or fiery.
• The tragic vision of the mineral world is usually seen as deserts, rocks, or ruins. Possibly sinister images like the cross. Rocks surrounding a character could possibly foreshadow the villain.
• The comic vision of the unformed world is a river or fourfold, influencing the temperate body with 4 humors. If there is a river present in literature, it could foreshadow a happy ending.
• The tragic vision of the unformed world is usually represented by a sea, and dissolution is often a flood myth. Seas including beast images also give an idea of chaos and tragic visions. If characters are lost at sea, it could foreshadow death.