Quiz Review

• An archetype is a pattern from which copies can be made
• Archetypes are considered a universal theme
• Carl Jung believed archetypes are a result of the collective unconscious, a shared experience of our ancestors
• Archetypes are primordial, ingrained in us before birth
• Archetypes are universal, found worldwide with similar ideas but different manifestations
• Archetypes fall into 2 categories: characters and symbols/situations
• Archetypal communities by Northrop Frye:

  • Spring: Birth phase, a hero is born
  • Summer: Marriage or love
  • Autumn: Death and isolation
  • Winter: Dissolution and death of a hero
• Comic world and tragic world:

  • E.g., a river=comic vision of the unformed world, but a sea=tragic vision of the unformed world
• A hero's Adventure by Joseph Campbell:

  • Heroes go on tasks (external) or quests (internal)
  • A hero has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself
  • A hero is always ready for the adventure they are given
  • 2 types of deeds:
  • Physical deed: Saving lives, killing a monster, etc
  • Spiritual deed: The hero learns how to experience human spiritual life and comes back with a message
• Utopian Dreams by Val Ross:

  • Utopia means "no place"
  • One's utopia is another person's dystopia
  • Oscar Wilde said that a map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth glancing at
  • “Progress is a realization of Utopia”
  • Oscar Wilde believes that man is made for the better
  • “Man is better than distributing dirt, all work of that kind should be done by a machine”
  • To improve, humans must believe that we can achieve a perfect society